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@guilopespiano10 жыл бұрын
Having been a Disney fan for most of my life, I cannot describe how surprised I was when I first saw the ballet. The meow sounds, taken out of their original context, are transformed into something terrifying in the Disney cartoon.
@samuellongo95305 жыл бұрын
This is pure geniusness
@themyers484 жыл бұрын
meow sounds?
@toticustv15564 жыл бұрын
What Disney movie?
@richardjh9294 жыл бұрын
@@themyers48 1:26 listen to the oboe
@beatricesanfilippo69253 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was Walter Disney idea to made this meow song for Maleficent theme transforming into a dark theme
@distressedcondiments31134 жыл бұрын
Tchaikovsky: So I’m writing music for a scene where two cats dance Someone: Oh that’s nice. How’s it gonna sound? Nice and happy? Tchaikovsky: extremely fuckin’ haunted.
@avengerwidow97 жыл бұрын
All I can think about while watching this is Aurora being led to the spinning wheel in the Disney movie..... I never thought about this song being played as two cats dance thanks a lot Disney for making this song scary
@izzyanne10556 жыл бұрын
chimchim of busan Dude u right like wth would disney do that
@andreabweek6 жыл бұрын
chimchim of busan I know right I knew I heard this song somewhere I just couldn’t figure it out until I heard the sharp dun’s
@ildikopolencsik92056 жыл бұрын
chimchim of busan that scene is still my worst nightmare
@pirateprincess19976 жыл бұрын
THATS ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT TOO!!!
@alexespapirifactico84416 жыл бұрын
@@andreabweek.
@andrewstiller75288 жыл бұрын
The best costume design EVER!
@jemimathekitten74355 жыл бұрын
man, Cats (2019) looks great
@EspaALSC4 жыл бұрын
haha if only it were like this
@monicacarranco85254 жыл бұрын
👁👄👁
@alexachipman3 жыл бұрын
If only!
@finn32643 жыл бұрын
ha
@Sophia-qd8hp3 жыл бұрын
This comment is underrated
@SharikaTee10 жыл бұрын
I can't believe that the music that used to terrify me (and still does) from the disney film was Tchaikovsky all along and from a cat dance! Well i feel silly for being so scared by it now!
@carbootstudios24597 жыл бұрын
I know the feeling.
@toticustv15564 жыл бұрын
What Disney movie?
@marijakrigere99854 жыл бұрын
@@toticustv1556 Disney's Sleeping Beauty with Tchaikovski's score. Go watch it, if you haven't seen it before. A masterpiece.
@toticustv15564 жыл бұрын
Elizabet Hirro I saw the movie when I was like 2. I will have to watch it again.
@evafastova31984 жыл бұрын
Toticus TV Autora. The music plays when Maleficent lures her to the spindle.
@Huckleberry875 жыл бұрын
Director: So this part's got Puss n Boots and the White Cat dancing a cute pas de deux. Tchaikovsky: Minor key, building tension. Got it.
@norahidvegi8464 жыл бұрын
lololol
@roliboom8 жыл бұрын
The pas de chats jumps are amazing!! They are so light on their feet ( I feel like a sac of potatoes when I attempt them lol). Love this so much and I am so glad I don't remember this music from the Disney film lol!
@samuellongo95305 жыл бұрын
I think that Disney made a master usage of this piece turning upside-down the sensation and emotion that it gives
@toticustv15564 жыл бұрын
What Disney movie?
@notasimplesponge7 жыл бұрын
This wasn’t a pas de deux! It was a pas de chat! 😂😂
@luminosetea6 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there. :)
@faroshscale6 жыл бұрын
Hehehe
@claudiamreyese6 жыл бұрын
Hahhahahha nice joke right there😂💕
@javeriaa38856 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂 love the French 😂😂😂
@simplystreeptacular6 жыл бұрын
Not quite - it was a pas de deux chats! ::LOL::
@karlavaleriapachecodealba68893 жыл бұрын
I remember being a child and being behind the scenes watching how one of the eldest dancers danced this pas de deux with her partner and I was completely blown away by the beauty
@AdamYJ10 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that The White Cat and Puss-in-Boots were in the Sleeping Beauty ballet. Those are two classic French fairy tales.
@OofusTwillip4 жыл бұрын
Act III of "Sleeping Beauty" is a series of divertissements (diversions), which are individual dances that have nothing to do with advancing the plot; they're purely for entertainment. If you know what divertissements are, you'll understand "Cats" a lot better.
@1987AnimeBoy Жыл бұрын
@@OofusTwillip The same should be said for "The Nutcracker Suite", since after the defeat of the Mouse King and the now-restored Nutcracker Prince brings Clara to his kingdom, what follows after is a series of dances until the finale.
@mariapspadopulou98988 жыл бұрын
I read with great interest how many people were scared by this music, thanks to Disney, as so was I! It was for me too, a great surprise to find many years later that this was a dance if cats!!!
@MistermimeV8 жыл бұрын
The costumes and the scenography are mind-blowing!
@enchanter57 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful. The choreography is light, graceful, evocative and funny. The dancers, esp. the White Cat are great. Her movements are perfection!
@madeleinebraham75004 жыл бұрын
I will never get over how creative the Royal Ballet choreography and costumes are. Simply flawless!!!!
@Crosshill7 жыл бұрын
seriously though that white cat costume is pretty cute, it has that aesthetic about it as though it could be in a game like bioshock infinite where it later turns into a ferocious beast, i think its the mask
@OofusTwillip4 жыл бұрын
The White Cat's costume doesn't seem quite right to me. I think it's because the tail should be under the tutu skirt, instead of over it. Cats' tails are at the base of the spine, not at the waist.
@cirqu38593 жыл бұрын
I'm in love with the white cat's outfit. So pretty!
@Nexils9 жыл бұрын
It's so weird seeing the music used in a TOTALLY different context/scene.
@spiritgirl411928 жыл бұрын
+Nexils Yeah, no kidding!
@culbycove49636 жыл бұрын
*It was super effective!*
@spiritgirl4119210 жыл бұрын
Rose! DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!
@maddalonefarms4 жыл бұрын
spiritgirl41192 Touch the spindle!
@hayleymsiebert75264 жыл бұрын
Touch the spindle I say!!!
@sarahlilly17453 жыл бұрын
@@dtaylor4552 Ahahahaha! 😈
@emmaray62158 ай бұрын
You poor simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me, ME?! The Mistress of all evil!? Well HERE is your precious princess! Ahahahahaha 🔥 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!😈
@vaticancitybride7137 Жыл бұрын
It’s incredible how much inspiration Disney took from this timeless ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”, watching ballet choreography is beyond satisfying.
@slimyweasles497310 жыл бұрын
Who says ballet is boring? It contains dancing cat-people! :)
@kaciebroadfield2629 жыл бұрын
You would LOVE cats the musical then
@garotadagavea7 жыл бұрын
I HATED that musical. This is delightful! No comparison.
@GRILLMASTER123454 жыл бұрын
@@garotadagavea Funnily enough, the CATS choreographer Gillian Lynne got her first major solo in this ballet
@LH232322 жыл бұрын
Kkk, yes, it is so funny. 😁
@XaxtonRevolution2 Жыл бұрын
I have a hypothesis on why people find it boring; ballet can't be done properly without making it look easy and to make it look easy is to make it look unimpressive and unimpressive things are boring to watch. So it doesn't work unless the emotions that are being conveyed can be picked up by the onlooker, and most people can't pick up on them or pick up on the story.
@TiaMitra6 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Harrod!!❤️❤️❤️ such amazing comic timing wow!
@audrey9786 жыл бұрын
i love the choreography. So cat like.
@AshanaDesu7 жыл бұрын
The white cat's feet are so flexible and strong.
@starlightdiaries10 жыл бұрын
Probably one of my top favorite pas de deuxs, in not my favorite! The style and craft behind the acting is superb
@ataraxy_75216 жыл бұрын
ROH has so beautiful costumes
@paolavelazquez71687 жыл бұрын
Imagine being so terrified of this music as a child then finding out it's for cats
@llamalover025 жыл бұрын
It's so funny to learn that the music used in the animated feature was just Tchaikovsky thinking about cats.
@rebeccaclark91317 жыл бұрын
Thanks to Disney the music now sounds way too dark for such a cute scene......
@sspdirect023 жыл бұрын
That’s the genius of Walt Disney. He was able to take a music piece that was written to be such a cute and comedic sequence and then torture it and turn it around into something that could be quite terrifying.
@jerricaleonard21233 жыл бұрын
@@sspdirect02 Even if I hadn't seen the movie, I would've thought this song was too dark for a goofy scene involving cats.
@ArchangelArchetypeOracle10 жыл бұрын
Oh my that was SO good...she's a-mazing :) Also the orchestra, sublime. I can't bear other companies interpretations of the scores..esp when it's Tchaikovsky. A good illustration of why I think The Royal are still the best!
@jaybonn59734 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD THE MUSIC IS MEOWING. Its cliche but listening to this is just familiar enough to make me feel stupid but still feel like I'm listening to something entirely new
@becomethesea Жыл бұрын
Do you mean... Entirely mew? 😂😸🧶
@mayaangel28385 жыл бұрын
This is by far my favourite ballet dance i've watched
@erod975 жыл бұрын
Wished there was more Elizabeth Harrod; she’s phenomenal 💛💛💛
@homeiswonderland10 жыл бұрын
Scary music! Dx Love the costumes!
@dreamyangel31017 жыл бұрын
I love this dance! 😍 If I were a ballerina I would want to play the white cat !!!
@-sylvia35367 жыл бұрын
Can we just talk about how beautiful the costume the mask the wig the everything is
@nanawakagimi12082 жыл бұрын
1:58 "Touch the spindle. Touch it, I say" ~Maleficent
@gantz22ify4 ай бұрын
Touch.
@MMDMizuki Жыл бұрын
Love the costumes!
@carlos4129 ай бұрын
It is so amazing how the team that worked on the animated Sleeping Beauty adapted this song into one of the most crucial moments in the movie. How they thought of adapting this and use it in a very eerie and dark way, I love it. And you gotta admit, even with the dancing cats, the music itself is definitely eerie, no wonder they used it in the spindle scene.
@angiekat58888 жыл бұрын
so fun and playful! absolutely love the costumes! fabulous job by all.
@kiniburk7 жыл бұрын
What a fun role to do.
@sharoncarter40868 ай бұрын
Could watch this forever and always adore it ❤
@marinailumina6 ай бұрын
ta pra nascer alguém que gosta mais desse pas de deux que eu…
@barryhossin20004 жыл бұрын
Wow, Beautiful
@Andi-gm7zu7 жыл бұрын
I still get terrifyed by this song!
@Mila.M.4 жыл бұрын
And the clothes!! Love it
@dancesingkitty945 жыл бұрын
Great that they always do the step pas de chat 😀
@VladSicoe2 жыл бұрын
The only thing that comes to mind when I listen to this piece of score is "Touch the spindle! Touch it, I say!" 😂😂😂😂
@Mila.M.4 жыл бұрын
Love the music and dance it's the best!!! ❤️❤️🎶🎼🎵🐱🐈
@Frmkpoptoswe9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Just wonderful!
@LadyPinkLilly7 жыл бұрын
I can't get enough of this PDD!!!!
@RochiRosasPaz10 жыл бұрын
amazing! one of my favourite pas de deux!
@garotadagavea7 жыл бұрын
This is adorable!
@gladzphalane26025 жыл бұрын
Totally loving the character
@thessie7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful!
@patriciachaullet7055 Жыл бұрын
Superbe je suis fan de ce ballet. ❤😻
@laurenjcoates4 жыл бұрын
It really does sound like “aurora” once you’ve seen the movie, you can’t unhear it
@jenniferaustin67788 ай бұрын
I LOVED this!!!
@rubyevil38998 жыл бұрын
I'm in love with this ❤❤
@karendurant45357 жыл бұрын
Why is this music so distressing, I love the dance and all but I feel like something is waiting in the back to creep in or something.
@herbertortiz91595 жыл бұрын
Karen Durant Thank the Disney film for that
@phastinemoon4 жыл бұрын
It's in a minor key, and the use of the discordant jumps is frequently used to signal at least something that should be startling, or at least ominous. I think the bigger takeaway from this is that maybe Tchaikovsky wasn't really that great of a storyteller as much as he was a composer of really good music -- if someone else wrote the story to fit the music he made.
@robertperez22623 жыл бұрын
This is what was used when Maleficent enchanted a grown up Aurora to go up to the tower and prick her finger
@FidesAla4 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen the Disney movie in forever, but all these comments about it have got me imagining Malleus Draconia with cat ears... which is.... a very good thing... (and Leona with horns, then?) I just... really want to see that. Some spell goes wrong and makes them switch. And Vil would make Malleus dance this with Lilia...
@livsampson44215 жыл бұрын
I get to dance this role in my ballet company this fall I'm super excited!
@claramanana74632 жыл бұрын
2 cats dancing! This is so good!
@OftBeth10110 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!♥
@atr463 жыл бұрын
Прелестная пара. Отлично сыграно и исполнено.
@mariosk3466 Жыл бұрын
Just imagine what if the audience started screaming because of the music and the dancers stood there like ''???''
@thangfahsavung91203 жыл бұрын
Pretty dress!
@Dior8063 жыл бұрын
I REMEMBER THIS WAS MY FIRST DANCE PERFORMANCE IN BALLET
@abipoyser15797 жыл бұрын
The music for the bit of Sleeping Beauty I was terrified of...is the music for a pair of dancing cats?
@winonaamanda922 жыл бұрын
In the ballet: Meow... In the movie: Au-rooo-ra...
@massabranca8 ай бұрын
Wonderful!
@leighbataillon80645 жыл бұрын
Bravo ballet😍
@roeve34036 жыл бұрын
Love ballet omg
@WhatHoification2 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite pas de deux
@egilley6374 жыл бұрын
Wow the new Cats film looks great
@fyiilovemusic9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@erinpicken7696 жыл бұрын
I love the ridiculous amount of pas de chats in this. It’s like a play on words. Pas de chat means rep of the cat for those who don’t know
@cophunkhoi1 Жыл бұрын
Growing up with this scary piece from the Disney movie. I am now trying to see if I can switch to joy and fun with the dance, but nope. My imagination still says two scary monsters were dancing and something bad would happen. Good job Disney.
@ulfberht4431 Жыл бұрын
So, the scariest and most eerie soundtrack of all the classic animated Disney movies Sleeping Beauty… is originally from a ballet? And a Puss in Boots ballet? Not to mention the performance looks so sweet and innocent next to an eerie soundtrack!
@susieqwiedeman5474 жыл бұрын
Wow the new cats movie looks nice
@vikii44944 жыл бұрын
this music still scares me 🥺
@MorganBennett4 жыл бұрын
Same
@cat567894 жыл бұрын
Those pas de chats👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤❤
@janicesmyth17132 жыл бұрын
Very pretty
@mariacillan96683 жыл бұрын
It's the minor key that makes it so scary and that enabled Disney to scare the crap out of kids
@anna.manvel3 жыл бұрын
So entertaining!
@alea2884 жыл бұрын
I am going to perform this piece this december I'm so ecited
@aliih10004 жыл бұрын
Lindo o sincronismo perfeito 😻😽
@siegfried9237 жыл бұрын
He also made the masks for the film Tales of Beatrix Potter andthe Slipper and the Rose
@fidanmamedova32499 жыл бұрын
beautuful
@НатальяА.Т3 жыл бұрын
Bravo! Great!))
@MorganBennett10 жыл бұрын
Maleficent
@Septimanien4 жыл бұрын
Très joli !
@tay_lausАй бұрын
My studio is doing sleeping beauty this fall and I just found out I am going to be the white cat!
@reymohammed70405 жыл бұрын
Whoever choreographed this had observed real ones. And now, I must quit slacking and go wait on them.
@auroraborealis18105 жыл бұрын
This honestly just made the song a lot creepier to me.
@vikii44944 жыл бұрын
ikr 🥺
@rafaelaalvesbossoni55784 жыл бұрын
so funny that a cat dance is full of pas de chat lol
@jerricaleonard21233 жыл бұрын
Honestly, it's kind of a good thing Disney associated this song with Maleficent, because the song just sounds too evil to accompany 2 cats goofing around.