Tchai PDD Balanchine - female var & coda - NYCB dancers - Verdy, Hayden, Kirkland, McBride, Bouder

#1 Violette Verdy (voice over Violette Verdy)
#2 Melissa Hayden
#3 Gelsey Kirkland (originally silent footage)
#4 Patricia McBride
#5 Ashley Bouder • Tchaikovsky Pas de Deu...

[@virginiamariadubois3105]

My favorite is Gelsey Kirkland

[@minissa2009]

Thanks so much for this video! I haven't ever seen Verdy nor Gelsey while she was still with NYCB. I really dislike that the more modern renditions cut short the arabesques voyagees (I think that's still the right term even if you're traveling upstage?) because musically it was so interesting to have them start at the end of one musical phrase and continue into the next. But somehow that flying leap at the end of the coda is turning into a fish dive more and more. In folk music, this is called the folk process, so I guess that extends to other arts as well. Anyway, fabulous footage of great virtuosity.

[@alecsia96]

Kirkland and Verdy make it so musically interesting to watch... I love how Gelsey travels through the stage so quickly and in such fluid conection to the insane tempo. I wonder, was there a black hole under the stage where Bouder was dancing? Because she looks terribly heavy and pierced to the floor...

[@garotadagavea]

Melissa Hayden, Pat McBrice and Ashley Boulder in that order. Love the tempo in Hayden's interpretation. Lightening!

[@sonjaBenoit]

Speedy foot Gelso!

[@alainspiteri502]

J saw on stage Violette Verdy G Kirkland but j can't explain here j prefer Patricia McBride

[@poohhoney5255]

1:57

[@arepo]

How come the first steps of the coda look terrible on almost every dancer? (Not only in this compilation) But they look good on Kirkland. Never cared about Bouder in this ballet, too much prowess and too little dancing. Not very happy with McBride either for different reasons.

[@Absurdist1968]

ballet janie Reasons?