Three Chopin Dances - Robbins - McBride, Baryshnikov 1979
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2016
- A viewer asked me to post the White House pdd, so here it is.
Pdd from Other Dances, female variation from Dances at a Gathering (Girl in Green), male variation and coda are new.
Pdd: Mazurka op.17 no.4
Female var: Etude op.25 no.4
Male var and coda: Waltz L'adieu op.69 no.1
Piano Jerry Zimmerman
White House Feb 1979
How I miss the days when the performing arts were celebrated at The White House. Another reason to admire Jimmy and Rosyln Carter.
I can’t forget the couple Makarova / Baryshnikov,simply perfect.....
Thank you, so very much, for preserving this rare ballet performance of Baryshnikov at the White house, in 1979, I thought to never see again!
Wake up! it wasn't a solo
Glorious. Never better. Bless God for awesome gifts and folks who do all the years of hard work to make those gifts visible!
Прелестно, Миша!
Каких золотых мальчиков воспитал Пушкин.
I look again and again, it's so beautiful! Thank you so much, Navarre, for this video.... It seems to me that the partnership of Misha and Patricia has improved compared to 1978 (Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux) and they have begun to understand each other better
Amazing beauty! So
delicate,, deep, graceful.
Que exquisitez de coreógrafo ROBBINS!!
Grande senso d'enfatizzazione commediale e grazia immiata nella ballerina.Acrobatici balzi con sforbiciata volante e d'estrema difficoltà esecutiva fa parte del ballerino realizzata con naturalezza e facilità esecutiva. OLTREMODO BRAVI.BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
Lift I've never seen before, so lovely.
This is the most delightful performance of this piece I've ever seen. Just lovely. (Why isn't Robbins applauding?!)
Navarre Brixen Yes I love their spin on it. So simple and charming and profound. I keep watching it again and again. BTW Robbins modest...? Ahem!
Navarre Brixen Double LOL!
applauding himself? those were more gracious times
He’s not applauding because he’s the choreographer and director. It would be as if he’s applauding his own work.
This is a delight. You unearth the most interesting performances,.
Thank you so much, Navarre for this video. For me this is a treasure.
Thanks so much for sharing this gem!
Thank you as well for this beautiful and gem of them dancing. Love it!
Great. Thank you.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Absolutamente maravilloso y perfecto!!! Mil gracias por compartir ❤
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The viewer thanks you :)
Pure delicacy and grace... what could be more beautiful than Chopin and Baryshnikov dancing to his music?
One difference between American and Russian audience, when Russians like a performance they scream "Bravo",
Americans are so "proper" and insipid in their appreciation.
I agree with the first half of your statement, this is a very inspired and graceful performance, I like it so much I watch it at least once a week :) But I wonder at the rest of your statement. This performance was at the White House, the guy sitting in the first row is the US president and the room is packed with officials and security. Officials don't scream their appreciation as a rule. Maybe they do so in Russia but US officials don't, it's poor manners. The president expressed his appreciation for the choreography by shaking Jerome Robbins' hand (white-bearded guy sitting right behind him) and presumably also went on stage to talk and shake Baryshnikov's hand after bows. I don't consider kind words and a handshake from the US president an insipid gesture.
I wasn't talking only about WH, it's a trend in US, I have been to many concerts and productions and it's always the same reaction... And I could compare personally as I have lived in Russia where I started going to opera theater when I was 4, I lived in Poland where I attended many productions of different kinds and I lived in England, here in California I have had season tickets to Symphony and opera but reactions were similar. Russians always show their appreciation in such way and many in the West think it's travesty. But dancers like that reaction, it means they can go out and bow while getting some rest between sets and they know they are appreciated. These are two different worlds and I know them both. Has nothing to do with White House. Showing appreciation is not a crime.
In Russia it is customary to applaud during performance, try to do it in America, yo will be branded a brut.
Thanks for the clarification, though I'm not sure how relevant is the behaviour of contemporary Cali audiences at, say, Segerstrom, to the video here (past audience consisting of officials sitting in a comparatively small room in the most official US building). As to regular American audiences 40 or 50 years ago, they did scream the MET and the Segerstrom down when it came to Baryshnikov, Kirkland, Fonteyn, Nureyev, Gregory, Bujones, and a few others. I'm not at all sure screaming throughout performance is a sign of appreciation, though. For me is a sign of disrespect to the dancers (disturbs concentration), and fellow audience members (can't hear the music). In my experience some member of the audience scream just because they like to hear themselves screaming, not because they're appreciating the art. And when it comes to Russians there's also the *paid claque* , particularly at the Bolshoi, so the reason for screaming might be even more divorced from what's actually going on on stage...
Just to make myself clear, I have nothing against audience applauding for 15-20 sec right after the leading dancers's pdd because it affords a breather to the dancer (usually the male) doing the bravura variation afterwards. I'm also all for applauding and yelling and demanding countless curtains *post* performance, if it was a good one. I'm just against audience making a racket *during* performance, it disturbs the mood. I'm neither US American nor Russian nor Cuban (Cubans are also very noisy) and as such have no skin in this game. You're probably Russian. Different strokes for different folks I guess...
In the White House.
Very poor video quality, but a rarity because performed in the Carter White House. Jerome Robbins was in the audience.
Thank you! Do you happen to know the music used for the male variation and coda? (Which Chopin mazurka?)
It's just the continuation of the waltz.
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 - it’s not a coda. It’s a waltz at times called colloquially the Farewell Waltz as the tale is Chopin composed it for his erstwhile fiancée whose parents would not allow the marriage to proceed due to Chopin’s poor health.
Incredibly beautiful.
BTW, What is pdd?
Short for pas de deux (duo)
quest'uomo non balla volaaaaa
I wonder who Misha is waving so happily to during the bow ))
Most likely to Jerry Robbins, the choreographer
The peanut farmer and his wife. Never saw ballet in their lives. Just trying to emulate the culturally sophisticated and incomparable Jackie Kennedy and President Kennedy (who took his lead regarding classical arts from his wife).
Where was Makarova for this? Oh, that’s right. She’d just given birth a few months earlier.
Navarre Brixen Thank you for setting me straight about this. I’d also forgotten that Baryshnikov had danced with NYCB.
I love this. Thanks so much. I don't know how I've missed it before now. I saw Baryshnikov & McBride in Other Dances at NYCB in 1979. It was my first time at NYCB. Unforgettable! They're wonderful, and it's so interesting to compare this with Makarova/Baryshnikov, my favorite forever, or Kirkland /Baryshnikov. All are glorious. I would be so thrilled if a decent quality DVD existed of this.
Navarre Brixen: Do you know if a decent quality DVD of this DOES exist? I stop by here often to watch this. Thanks again.
@@Marta44339 Quite different than Makarova / Baryshnikov, but also brilliant.