Anna Pavlova Анна Павлова, Dying Swan, S.-Saens Kirov Ballet

klarissaalvarado Says:

Aug 20, 2009 - oh wow , this has to be the most amazing role ever ;D

sweetpoison94 Says:

Aug 30, 2009 - i realise that renowned ballerinas like anna pavlova and margot fonteyn are not super duper skinny like the ballerinas we see today. so why the skinny trend?

villesheart1 Says:

Sep 6, 2009 - I had never seen her perform, this was so inspiring. Beautiful!

Windflower63 Says:

Sep 8, 2009 - So sweet and charming - a beautiful artistic video!

coolbroz002 Says:

Sep 10, 2009 - its like shes actually a dying swan! :-(

kurichka Says:

Sep 17, 2009 - Because the technique has changed dramatically, shaping bodies differently. They made more repetitions and less stretching, forming more muscles, and robust legs. I guess, nowadays, they focus a lot more in stretching the whole body. Apart from that, the aesthetics for women's bodies also changed... you just have to look at models parading... some of them are like walking skeletons... Sad, but true.

SingerAR Says:

Sep 19, 2009 - Also, when George Balanchine came in to the picture, he would knock on the ballerinas chest and say "Bones, I want to see bones...." His vision of art was to see them as waifs or fairies dancing. A lot changed with him.

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AnnaCatherineSRB Says:

Sep 25, 2009 - this is putting tears on my face, i have strainge feelings when i watch this video:happiness,sadness , i don't know....

ikerovich Says:

Sep 29, 2009 - Well, the theatre comcept its been changed a lots from 1910 to our days, if we see her in the way that we used to see ballet to day, her dance can be old fashon, but thats is not the poit, the poit is we have to see her interpretation and inspiration in the way then she moves, and i think she was a realy great artist and magnificent balerina of her times, thats why she is now a legend!!!

ikerovich Says:

Sep 29, 2009 - You have to see Makarova's vertion, i think she is the best. She realy captured the spirit of Ana Pavlova interpretation in the modern way, as well Fokin's coreografy

hrryzdlr Says:

Oct 6, 2009 - when was this? 30s? 20? earlier?

Dance247cb Says:

Oct 7, 2009 - it was in 1931:)

purplecarrot123 Says:

Oct 10, 2009 - i saw her swan dress in a museum in london. it was so beautiful :)

GracefulBallerina1 Says:

Oct 14, 2009 - oh my, when she dances, she puts shivers up my spine, she is absolutley brilliant, no other word for it

curlywatts77 Says:

Oct 14, 2009 - tak krasivii

nataliepeaceandfun Says:

Oct 14, 2009 - wasnt this her last dance??

GracefulBallerina1 Says:

Oct 15, 2009 - She is wonderful, but when I watched this video again, she just throws her arms up like an eagle! Maybe she should of been a little more graceful

sinesthemusic Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - I thaught so too at first... But maybe she's showing the struggle? After all, it is the dying swan solo and watching it, it kind of works??...

MagsandIzzy Says:

Oct 24, 2009 - My mother in law who was a ballerina herself, saw Pavolava when she was a young girl when she performed in Glasgow and never forgot her.

EyeLean5280 Says:

Oct 28, 2009 - This film runs too fast. In the silent era, the equipment filmed at fewer frames per second than is done today yet when we show these antique films now on modern equipment, we do not adjust the speed of the fps. While this does serve to remove the flickering early audiences had to put up with, the action in the films can look unnaturally quick, jerky disjointed. Only one cinema that I've ever attended was always faithful to the proper speed. They also always had a live pianist.

lmi88 Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - forget about Makarova! Watch Plisetskaya!! she is the ultimate Swan! She's pierless in this role. I've never seen a swan struggle so much or wings like those plisetskaya has!! have a look at them!!

millfacen Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - i think her solo is more intense and terrified than anyother solo's of it if that make's sense hers is more about the struggle.

yousimplythebest Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - more graceful than Pavlova??? ha-ha - not possible darling

ikerovich Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - Well, Plisetskaya is Maya with out any doubts, and her interpretation of a swan is fantatstic also by her own coreografy but, is not my choice thinking about clouse to Pavlova way performing, our at the very original coreografic propouse, any way if you prefer Maya, its ok, she is a great artist also.