DARCI KISTLER'S EMOTIONAL FAREWELL TO THE BALLET STAGE - 2010 - VOB
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- DARCI KISTLER'S EMOTIONAL FAREWELL TO THE BALLET STAGE
IF YOU CAN WATCH THIS WITHOUT TEARING UP, YOU ARE MADE OF STONE - FROM 12-26-10
AFTER 30 YEARS ON STAGE DARCI MOVES ON....- TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS, LIKE TEACHING.....PASSING ON THINGS OF GREAT CULTURE IN A COUNTRY THAT NEEDS IT, AND HER - A COUNTRY THAT NEEDS BOTH OF THESE THINGS DESPERATELY.
THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK OVER THE YEARS DARCI !!! - Zábava
I have shown her Nutcracker performance to literally thousands of my elementary music students, and they were spell-bound......as was I every time I watched. Such grace and talent!!
Such a lovely tribute for a stunningly beautiful and amazing ballerina of our age! I'm glad they included a clip from her performance in the Bournonville ballet. I'm very fond of that one.
A beautiful tribute to one I remember from my own dancing days... she was one of my idols. I am so glad she is still passing on her many gifts.
So lovely, and wonderful to see Jacques D'Amboise coaching and later discussing her (though they really should have identified Damian Woetzel, who's no chopped liver, himself). I remember first hearing about Darci K., from across the Atlantic, in terms and tones rarely employed about such a young dancer. I think Mme. Danilova said something to the effect that, when Darci danced, it was like a soft perfume filled the air.
What a wonderful interview. Darci Kistler was my idol growing up. I will always admire her career.
Simply lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Darci Kistler--yes, the very last official "Balanchine ballerina." She had one of the longest on-stage dancing careers ever. Maybe the fact that she was married to the company's head had something to do with it. But just because one's too old to dance professionally doesn't mean they should leave dance altogether. Martins himself still runs the NYCB . He also choreographs his own works. And Darci, well... keep teaching. Maybe choreograph a ballet yourself.
--For Darci FOREVER, Dane Youssef
"a bit of a rough start" ??? insane to watch this now, knowing everything that's been exposed about him and his "proteges". ugh. how men like that keep their jobs for so long is BEYOND me
Hi There
This is Beverly Yvette Dixon from grade school in Riverside CA. You are such a beautiful person inside and out ❤️😊
You haven't changed that characteristic about you. I think of you often and I thank God for the opportunity to tell you that I have never forgotten your kindnesses to the girl who couldn't run fast and always picked last for any team sports 😂
I had a blast at your Birthday Party, it was the first time I ever saw the beach/ Ocean and I am truly grateful and blessed to have known you.
Luv you,
Bev Dixon
Like...what?
beautiful! a moving tribute - thank you for posting this.
i know her in fact i took a ballet class with her today
ahh i was there, she's amazing
WOW.
Just remember, candles on a Christmas tree are a BAD IDEA. That's why they invented electric lights! ;-)
At the farewell scene, Darci kissed her daughter. Not her husband. I wonder what she is doing now, where she is teaching.
POINTE SHOES! NOTTTT toe shoe...
Toe shoes . When i was very little every friend and my sisters and i would all have cake toppers made of glass and tulle of ballet dancers in those awe inspiring toe shoes. You clown. It was the scene sweeping the nation. If it was good enough for the Russian man who thoroughly helped create the entire ballet and single handedly brought it to the usa it is good enough for you also
“Toe shoes”...?
Stop saying toe shoe. Unless you're talking about barefoot running shoes.
Oh, Sarah, get over yourself. Yeah, "pointe shoes" sounds better, and is the term I prefer, but folks have been employing the term "toe shoes" since long before you, or even I, were born. And not just lowbrow rube-type people, either. That was probably the more widely used term, back when the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, et al were traversing the world in "the covered wagons of ballet," as Freddy Franklin put it, and when even those who wouldn't think of going to a ballet performance were still likely to be exposed to the art, through the movies or popular press, or in a toe tap specialty number at night club or music hall. We'd do well to try to get it back into popular culture, and not by alienating folks with picky issues like "toe shoes/pointe shoes." (My personal peeve of this sort is the term "ballerina" being used by people to indicate any female doing any kind of balletic dance--or even just making attempts at it--regardless of her level of expertise, or lack thereof, or her rank. But, like I've advised you to do, I had to get over it to a degree, and stop admonishing folks as to why they shouldn't use it that way; it only seemed to push them away from interest in ballet.)
Was over it way before I finished reading your post. Thanks for the history though, its interesting. Balanchine insisted on using the word choreographer in his first programs in America instead of having himself listed as the "dance maker." Perhaps a balance between educating people (we need big audiences, yes?) and asking that correct vocabulary be used?