Fortunately today we have Diana Vishneva and Natalia Osipova- marvelous contemporary Russian prima ballerinas who embody music and dance all by herselves. Oh boy oh boy. However, I love Cyd as well... very much so... and her epic dance numbers along with Gene Kelly in Singing in the rain particularly. Cheerio ! Aloha !
The reworking of this short version of The Sleeping Beauty is really clever. Cyd Charisse was a wonderful dancer. They don't make musicals like this anymore.
Soy de Argentina y es maravilloso ver a una gran actriz y ver a una gran bailarina Hoy no existe esto de ver a una figura como ella actriz y bailarina Mis padres me llevaban siempre al cine se puede decir que crecí en el cine y hoy recuerdo tantas películas que he visto Creo que en mi país. Tendrían qué pasar muchas películas de todos los actores y actrices esas sí que eran películas Felicitaciones x este recuerdo tan hermoso
And the beautiful and graceful dancer who plays Prince Charming in this scene is Marc Wilder. Thank you so much for uploading this video. I'm watching it over and over again.
Que excelente y GENIAL videos de este GRANDIOSO Ballet Americano de aquellos tiempos !!!! con la Musica sublime del genial Ruso Tchaicovky !!!!... Supongo que hoy en dia, realizan presentaciones BUENAS como este ejemplo y hasta mejores quizas.....Estos videos; son GRANDES REGALOS Divinos para todos nosotros amigos !!!! Saludos de Peru.
Cyd had what not many had. She partially lost her flexibility after she became an actress (she never brought her leg up to her each, or over her head, she never had a flexible back and crazy arabesques and back bends and never did any leg extensions more than 130 degrees up) she might not jump the highest, but she felt the music in a way that some dancers will never do. She helped us feel the music, she let the music move her body, and she danced with such ease and grace, that most of us still are convinced she defied gravity in some way. A real queen.
Cyd had had what some tyrannical ballet mistresses consider the kiss of death: two kids. How many girls in her time had to vanish for a few weeks for an 'operation' to keep their suppleness? For a mother in her thirties she was very limber, able to convey power and sensuality without attempting the most extreme contortions. In fact their absence may have emphasized her queenliness. Sexy lady but always a lady, just as Eleanor Powell (who could make her body do anything) was sexy yet with a core of untarnishable girlish innocence.
When I see 2 dislikes I know it's the same 2 people that search for video's that have all likes and decide to be spoilers by putting in their 2 cents worth(get it a penny a piece LOL).
The crowd scene is fun, full of bits of business within the main action's well-co-ordinated company. It reminds me of a Frederick Ashton ensemble piece such as 'Patineurs'. But the level of skill drops in the pas de deux; it reminds one how classical European ballet had become fossilized into a string of lifts, contorted poses and superfluous gyrations. It carries that irritating 'look at me, aren't I limber?' air, inviting applause for technique which does not conceal the over-familiar sleeping beauty/liebestod vibe. How much one prefers Cyd to apply her beauty and virtuosity to Americana such as 'Dancing in the Dark', 'Baby You Knock Me Out' or 'Silk Stockings'. One must salute the camerawork, with its unobtrusively fluid tracks and dollying. It fulfills Fred's stipulation that the lens must not upstage the dancers, while giving one a sense of being inside the routine that one could never get from a flat, unmoving view from the front stalls. The DP was Robert Bronner, a newcomer who shot Cyd in four Scope films between 1956 and 1958 and did her proud.
Can someone tell me the name of a certain musical please? I saw it when I was child, it's about a man who follows a princess who dances in the woods in the night or something like this; it resembles The 12 dancing princesses fairy tale, but not a children film, it 's a real classic musical from the 50' ,I think, coloured, period costumes, feeric atmosphere . Thank you
Daniela - the movie you are thinking of is "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm." The particular sequence stars Russ Tamblyn and Yvette Mimieux. It's a lovely film and I recall my school's entire fifth grade being treated to a special class trip to the Cinerama Dome in NYC to see the movie. A magical day!
the girl is black is here the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty, and yeah, she's got definitely Black Swan vibes(;. I would definitely love to see a full length mash up of this with Swan Lake, there should be also a Lilac Fairy for happy ending (just as the Fairy Queen in the Barbie version (; )
Referring to the choreography credit in the description, this piece is obviously all Eugene Loring, not Hermes Pan. Perhaps Pan choreographed other dances in this film. Loring choreographed quite often for Charisse. Pan, basically a self taught dancer, would not have knowledge of ballet technique and choreography to make this piece. The ensemble movement is typical of Loring's character driven choreography that can be seen in so many of his film and concert dances.
Loring was masterly at drawing small vignettes together into an organic whole. IIRC his first, or one of his first, such projects was 'Limehouse Blues' in 'Ziegfeld Follies', the 'pantomime' in which the framing street scene and the gorgeous willow-pattern chinoiserie are all of a piece. Loring frames duets by Astaire and Lucille Bremer, here and in the eerily desynchronized 'Coffee Time' in 'Yolanda and the Thief', which are quite unforgettable.
George Balanchine would have never accepted Cyd as a dancer because she's got a real adult woman's body. His ideal, which unfortunately became the tyrannical standard for all aspiring ballerinas, was an emaciated,hollow-cheeked, big-footed, flat-chested scarecrow/nymph with bones sticking out everywhere. I personally think that even though the guy purported to love women, he was in the closet, with a secret longing for little boys, which is why he demanded his dancers looked liked them. Unfortunately, some of those ballerinas died trying to meet his criteria. Thank God we now have Misty Copeland, prima ballerina with the ABT. She's the first black to achieve this status, plus, she's got muscles, boobs, and curves. With all due respect George darling, fuck you. We've got real women on the stage again. Cyd looks beautiful here.
BooBooKitty Fuct You're possibly overreacting. The term "in the closet" started out as a specific description for gay men and women who hadn't publicly come out with their sexual preferences. It has now come to serve the more generic use of describing anyone with a secret agenda, usually sexual, that they're not being open about. Most secret pedophiles are also referred to as being "in the closet." I have flaws as well as the next person, but being accused of "hate speech" is a new one.
So how do you explain Diana Adams, one of Balanchine's greatest muses, who had a real "woman's body" to rival Cyd's? And Suzanne Farrell and Allegra Kent were no scarecrows either.
@DivineSimply Why are you so hateful? Insulting girls as "scarecrows" because they don't match your personal aesthetic preference is just as bad as not highering someone because they are too curvy. Also sexual preference doesn't always work that way, not to mention how offensive it is to tell girls who happen to not be curvy, that the only men that could ever like them are closet pedophiles. Why is it so hard for you to just stick to what bodytype you find attractive, and not shame anyone who doesn't match that bodytype or has a different opinion?
@@elisabeth4912 Don't be an asshole. I'm talking about the emaciated look that comes from starving the body. Audrey Hepburn was skinny but healthy. What Balanchine was doing spoke for itself, he was killing young girls.
I wonder what Eugene Loring contributed to this. He is credited only as 'soundtrack' and there is no doubt that Hermes Pan was the big man on the choreographic side, as he had been the year before in 'Hit the Deck'. That too was helmed by Roy Rowland- who knew nothing about musicals and was noted mainly, if at all, for westerns. As the musical lost appeal, the versatile Pan was increasingly hired to rescue projects. However Loring and Rowland did combine fruitfully on that fabulous weirdie, 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T', in 1953. 'Meet Me in Las Vegas' is better when Hermes is not being boxed in by ballet- take Cyd's 'Frankie and Johnny', where she is slinky and balletic in apache fashion: slithering all over the shiny floor and toting a gun in an obvious echo of 'Girl Hunt' in 'The Band Wagon'. PS: It seems Loring was indeed the main begetter of this number. IDK if Pan helped out as he did in other passages.
Oh, my god, the dancer in black with the enormous legs should never have been cast especially next to Cyd Charisse’s beautiful, long, slender legs. What a mistake!
I thought she was purposefully cast as a somewhat stocky woman for the part, slightly comical in appearence in a ballet. A couple of jovial "gnomes" or something coming to play games.
Imagine a film or a television show doing this now? What has happened to our culture? Anyone can appreciate a thing of beauty like this.
Sad, isn't it? Bernstein and the NY Phil actually did prime time broadcasts. Those days are long gone. :(
Liberals destroyed our culture. And replaced it with a monstrosity we have today.
The dreamer has gone away but their dreams remain She was gods gift to us Legend of dance breattakingly beautiful
OMG the MOST softest dance Cyd Charisse has done. LOVE IT!
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Gorgeous! I love Cyd Charisse!
I've never seen Cyd in pure ballet - this is wonderful! Thank you so much!!!
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When I die and wake up this is what I expect to see. Cyd in her ballet costume dancing around me welcoming me to heaven.
Ah, that would be many of us.
Fortunately today we have Diana Vishneva and Natalia Osipova- marvelous contemporary Russian prima ballerinas who embody music and dance all by herselves. Oh boy oh boy. However, I love Cyd as well... very much so... and her epic dance numbers along with Gene Kelly in Singing in the rain particularly. Cheerio ! Aloha !
The reworking of this short version of The Sleeping Beauty is really clever. Cyd Charisse was a wonderful dancer. They don't make musicals like this anymore.
Soy de Argentina y es maravilloso ver a una gran actriz y ver a una gran bailarina Hoy no existe esto de ver a una figura como ella actriz y bailarina Mis padres me llevaban siempre al cine se puede decir que crecí en el cine y hoy recuerdo tantas películas que he visto Creo que en mi país. Tendrían qué pasar muchas películas de todos los actores y actrices esas sí que eran películas Felicitaciones x este recuerdo tan hermoso
The music is The Sleeping Beauty..beautiful choreography and a goddess to dance it
And the beautiful and graceful dancer who plays Prince Charming in this scene is Marc Wilder. Thank you so much for uploading this video. I'm watching it over and over again.
"Meet Me In Las Vegas ", 1956 :) Who can forget Cyd ?
Glorious Dancer...if only there were dancers and choreographers like this today!
A beautiful dancer - in everything she performed!
FABULOUS number! Greatest musical number ever filmed!!
The fantastic Cyd Charisse and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty; what more can one ask for? ;)
Que excelente y GENIAL videos de este GRANDIOSO Ballet Americano de aquellos tiempos !!!! con la Musica sublime del genial Ruso Tchaicovky !!!!... Supongo que hoy en dia, realizan presentaciones BUENAS como este ejemplo y hasta mejores quizas.....Estos videos; son GRANDES REGALOS Divinos para todos nosotros amigos !!!! Saludos de Peru.
Cyd had what not many had. She partially lost her flexibility after she became an actress (she never brought her leg up to her each, or over her head, she never had a flexible back and crazy arabesques and back bends and never did any leg extensions more than 130 degrees up) she might not jump the highest, but she felt the music in a way that some dancers will never do. She helped us feel the music, she let the music move her body, and she danced with such ease and grace, that most of us still are convinced she defied gravity in some way. A real queen.
Cyd had had what some tyrannical ballet mistresses consider the kiss of death: two kids. How many girls in her time had to vanish for a few weeks for an 'operation' to keep their suppleness?
For a mother in her thirties she was very limber, able to convey power and sensuality without attempting the most extreme contortions. In fact their absence may have emphasized her queenliness. Sexy lady but always a lady, just as Eleanor Powell (who could make her body do anything) was sexy yet with a core of untarnishable girlish innocence.
What a fabulous use of the music from The Sleeping Beauty!
Slinky, sensuous, sensational Cyd, partnered by Marc Wilder. Wow !
Сид Чарисс!
Брависсимо!!!
Светлая память!
С уважением, Валерий Романов.
Cyd vaporosa inigualable...¡perfecta1
Beautiful!
Fantastic.....great choreography!
Wow! That was amazing! I can't believe that i've never seen this before. I love Cyd Charisse and this is just absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing!
божественные исполнители и хореограф
Most elegant dancer, absolutely gorgeous!
beautiful, simply beautiful
Sleeping Beauty - lovely
Looooove this set design. Beautiful.
I've never seen her do ballet at all - I might have to look up more than one movie :>
When I see 2 dislikes I know it's the same 2 people that search for video's that have
all likes and decide to be spoilers by putting in their 2 cents worth(get it a penny a piece LOL).
I see eleven dislikes on another artist,and is the same perfectionist crowd that can not agree with anyone.
That U-love seat in the opening is the same one used in Marge & Gower Champion's number, I Might Fall Back on You, in the 1953 SHOW BOAT!
incredible
What a beautiful scene.
Her training originally was ballet. She always had my attention!
SPLENDIDA VIDEO MAGNIFICA MUSIC SONG HISTORICO 1956
The crowd scene is fun, full of bits of business within the main action's well-co-ordinated company. It reminds me of a Frederick Ashton ensemble piece such as 'Patineurs'. But the level of skill drops in the pas de deux; it reminds one how classical European ballet had become fossilized into a string of lifts, contorted poses and superfluous gyrations. It carries that irritating 'look at me, aren't I limber?' air, inviting applause for technique which does not conceal the over-familiar sleeping beauty/liebestod vibe. How much one prefers Cyd to apply her beauty and virtuosity to Americana such as 'Dancing in the Dark', 'Baby You Knock Me Out' or 'Silk Stockings'.
One must salute the camerawork, with its unobtrusively fluid tracks and dollying. It fulfills Fred's stipulation that the lens must not upstage the dancers, while giving one a sense of being inside the routine that one could never get from a flat, unmoving view from the front stalls. The DP was Robert Bronner, a newcomer who shot Cyd in four Scope films between 1956 and 1958 and did her proud.
O TODO DESLUMBRE DA DANÇA DA ARTE... E EM DESFILE MÁGICO...
is there anything she cannot do.... i love cyd
Okay, that was a little bit on the incredible side. Cyd's legs... I can't with her.
Cyd прекрасна партнер великолепен
What about "The Unfinished Dance", she plays a ballerina in that movie
Can someone tell me the name of a certain musical please? I saw it when I was child, it's about a man who follows a princess who dances in the woods in the night or something like this; it resembles The 12 dancing princesses fairy tale, but not a children film, it 's a real classic musical from the 50' ,I think, coloured, period costumes, feeric atmosphere . Thank you
Daniela - the movie you are thinking of is "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm." The particular sequence stars Russ Tamblyn and Yvette Mimieux. It's a lovely film and I recall my school's entire fifth grade being treated to a special class trip to the Cinerama Dome in NYC to see the movie. A magical day!
Oh, good heavens...
me encanta, agregame a tus amigos
Swan Lake, but beach volleyball and a happy ending
(I know the music isn’t Swan Lake, but the girl in black totally had Odil vibes)
the girl is black is here the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty, and yeah, she's got definitely Black Swan vibes(;. I would definitely love to see a full length mash up of this with Swan Lake, there should be also a Lilac Fairy for happy ending (just as the Fairy Queen in the Barbie version (; )
divina
Referring to the choreography credit in the description, this piece is obviously all Eugene Loring, not Hermes Pan. Perhaps Pan choreographed other dances in this film. Loring choreographed quite often for Charisse. Pan, basically a self taught dancer, would not have knowledge of ballet technique and choreography to make this piece. The ensemble movement is typical of Loring's character driven choreography that can be seen in so many of his film and concert dances.
Loring was masterly at drawing small vignettes together into an organic whole. IIRC his first, or one of his first, such projects was 'Limehouse Blues' in 'Ziegfeld Follies', the 'pantomime' in which the framing street scene and the gorgeous willow-pattern chinoiserie are all of a piece. Loring frames duets by Astaire and Lucille Bremer, here and in the eerily desynchronized 'Coffee Time' in 'Yolanda and the Thief', which are quite unforgettable.
George Balanchine would have never accepted Cyd as a dancer because she's got a real adult woman's body. His ideal, which unfortunately became the tyrannical standard for all aspiring ballerinas, was an emaciated,hollow-cheeked, big-footed, flat-chested scarecrow/nymph with bones sticking out everywhere. I personally think that even though the guy purported to love women, he was in the closet, with a secret longing for little boys, which is why he demanded his dancers looked liked them. Unfortunately, some of those ballerinas died trying to meet his criteria. Thank God we now have Misty Copeland, prima ballerina with the ABT. She's the first black to achieve this status, plus, she's got muscles, boobs, and curves. With all due respect George darling, fuck you. We've got real women on the stage again. Cyd looks beautiful here.
BooBooKitty Fuct You're possibly overreacting. The term "in the closet" started out as a specific description for gay men and women who hadn't publicly come out with their sexual preferences. It has now come to serve the more generic use of describing anyone with a secret agenda, usually sexual, that they're not being open about. Most secret pedophiles are also referred to as being "in the closet." I have flaws as well as the next person, but being accused of "hate speech" is a new one.
Yes , Cyd : tall & beautiful Lady , love her !
So how do you explain Diana Adams, one of Balanchine's greatest muses, who had a real "woman's body" to rival Cyd's? And Suzanne Farrell and Allegra Kent were no scarecrows either.
@DivineSimply Why are you so hateful? Insulting girls as "scarecrows" because they don't match your personal aesthetic preference is just as bad as not highering someone because they are too curvy. Also sexual preference doesn't always work that way, not to mention how offensive it is to tell girls who happen to not be curvy, that the only men that could ever like them are closet pedophiles. Why is it so hard for you to just stick to what bodytype you find attractive, and not shame anyone who doesn't match that bodytype or has a different opinion?
@@elisabeth4912 Don't be an asshole. I'm talking about the emaciated look that comes from starving the body. Audrey Hepburn was skinny but healthy. What Balanchine was doing spoke for itself, he was killing young girls.
"Śpiąca królewna" w hollywoodzkim wykonaniu.
Modern sleeping beauty. Cool!
Carabosse's minions are the best part!
1:45
Good luck with that!
I wonder what Eugene Loring contributed to this. He is credited only as 'soundtrack' and there is no doubt that Hermes Pan was the big man on the choreographic side, as he had been the year before in 'Hit the Deck'. That too was helmed by Roy Rowland- who knew nothing about musicals and was noted mainly, if at all, for westerns. As the musical lost appeal, the versatile Pan was increasingly hired to rescue projects.
However Loring and Rowland did combine fruitfully on that fabulous weirdie, 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T', in 1953. 'Meet Me in Las Vegas' is better when Hermes is not being boxed in by ballet- take Cyd's 'Frankie and Johnny', where she is slinky and balletic in apache fashion: slithering all over the shiny floor and toting a gun in an obvious echo of 'Girl Hunt' in 'The Band Wagon'.
PS: It seems Loring was indeed the main begetter of this number. IDK if Pan helped out as he did in other passages.
In THAT time The Russian Great Theater was MUCH MORE COOL & BETTER! ( in classic ballet!) in Roc&roll poore up NOW! HA-HA-HA!
haha Well Robert, I think you will actually see your relatives greeting you.
Oh, my god, the dancer in black with the enormous legs should never have been cast especially next to Cyd Charisse’s beautiful, long, slender legs. What a mistake!
stop body shaming
Yes, how terrible that she was cast based on her skill, experience, and hard work rather than on the circumference of her thighs.
I thought she was purposefully cast as a somewhat stocky woman for the part, slightly comical in appearence in a ballet. A couple of jovial "gnomes" or something coming to play games.
I thought that was on purpose
yes, good luck with that..lol