Sergei Polunin // LA BAYADERE (Near-complete Solor Performance)
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- čas přidán 4. 10. 2020
- Stanislavsky Ballet: "La Bayadere" Choreography by Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus. Performed 2013 and 2014 at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre.
Solor: Sergei Polunin (Сергей Полунин)
(Dancers listed in order of longest appearances)
Nikiya: Natalia Somova, Kristina Shapran, Svetlana Zakharova
Gamzatti: Erika Mikirticheva, Natalia Somova, Oksana Kardash,
Bronze Idol: Dmitry Zagrebin
This is not a complete ballet. However, it does appear to include most of the scenes Solor/Sergei Polunin appears in. (I have not seen the entire ballet before, so I'm not sure how much is missing.) I edited together footage I found of five separate performances from 2013 and 2014. (Which is why you will see several different dancers in the roles of Nikiya and Gamzatti).
You can find parts of Sergei's "La Bayadere" performances here on CZcams, but these were the longest segments I was able to find. I did my best to edit together the videos into one performance that was as complete an experience as possible. There are several cuts in the scenes where no footage for that part of the performance was available. I also included an extra Solar solo at the end as well as the curtain calls for 3 of the performances.
ABOUT THE BALLET:
(from www.abt.org/ballet/la-bayadere)
Synopsis
Set in the Royal India of the past, La Bayadère is a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance, and justice. The ballet relates the drama of a temple dancer (bayadère), Nikiya, who is loved by Solor, a noble warrior. She is also loved by the High Brahmin, but does not love him in return, as she does Solor.
Act I, Scene I,
Outside Temple in the Sacred Forest: The High Brahmin, priests, and temple dancers are celebrating the Indian Ritual of Fire. Nikiya, the most beautiful of the bayadères, has been chosen to be consecrated the lead temple dancer. The High Brahmin declares his love for Nikiya, but is rejected by her. Nikiya meets secretly with Solor later that evening. They dance together and swear eternal love over the Sacred Fire, but are discovered by the jealous High Brahmin, who vows to kill Solor.
Act I, Scene II,
A Room in the Palace: The Rajah has decided to reward Solor’s valor and decrees that the warrior will marry his daughter, Gamzatti. Gamzatti falls in love with Solor’s portrait, and when they meet, he is overwhelmed by her beauty. Even though he has sworn eternal love to Nikiya, he cannot defy the wishes of the Rajah and agrees to marry Gamzatti. The High Brahmin informs the Rajah of Nikiya and Solor’s secret love, hoping that the Rajah will do away with Solor. Instead, the Rajah decides to kill Nikiya.
This conversation is overhead by Gamzatti, who summons Nikiya to her rooms and attempts to bribe Nikiya to give up Solor. Refusing, Nikiya frantically attempts to kill Gamzatti. Nikiya flees and Gamzatti swears to destroy her.
Act I, Scene III,
The Garden of the Palace: At the betrothal of Solor and Gamzatti, Nikiya is commanded to dance. Gamzatti presents her with a basket of flowers that Nikiya believes to be from Solor, and which conceals a deadly snake. Nikiya is bitten, and when Solor leaves with Gamzatti, she refuses the proffered antidote and dies.
Act II,
The Tent of Solor: Solor, grief‑stricken and under the influence of opium, dreams of being reunited with Nikiya in the Kingdom of the Shades. Awakening, he realizes that he must prepare to marry Gamzatti.
Act III, The Temple:
The vision of Nikiya remains with Solor as the wedding ceremony begins at the Sacred Temple. As Solor and Gamzatti say their vows and are blessed by the High Brahmin, the vengeance of the gods is unleashed, and the temple and all the celebrants are destroyed. Nikiya and Solor are once again united in eternal love.
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Ah! My favorite entertainer!
Sergei Polunin is a trill to the eyes and soul.
Glad you enjoyed!
Yes, indeed a THRILL
Великолепна каждая деталь постановка,исполнение,костюмы . 👏👏💕💞🍏🍓💐💐💐💐🌹💐🌹💐
I thought it was a very beautiful production as well. Thanks for watching and commenting! I'm glad you enjoyed.
Happy to see more than the usual clip of sergeis dance in Bayadare ....thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed.
Muchas gracias por tu maravillosa labor de búsqueda y edición de vídeos , es un gran trabajo, me ha encantado poder ver casi completa la Bayadera por Serguei y sus fabulosas compañeras bailarinas
You're so very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed. Thanks for the encouraging compliment on the editing work. I am very excited and happy to share these videos with other people who enjoy watching Sergei Polunin as much as I do.
I was thrilled to find this. You don't often see a Russian company doing Makarova's staging. This is my favorite productions, as I "teethed" on it when ABT first premiered the full length in New York. Having great expectations of Polunin as Solor!
So happy to share! I hadn't seen the ballet before and found it very lovely. The music, costumes, and choreography... and of course, Polunin.
I also noticed that not only did this Russian company take on Makarova's staging, they also took onboard the orchestral arrangements penned into the musical score by John Lanchberry, who worked with ABT in both Makarova's one act Bayadere in 1974 as well as her full-length production in 1980 (I might be off on the years). You'll notice that in some sections of the music there are "counter melodies", I would call them, that aren't heard in other productions, especially Russian ones.
Потрясающая постановка не устаю восхищаться Полуниным лёгкий изящный лучший браво!!
So glad you enjoyed!
Спасибо за великолепный подарок и роскошную подборку лучших спектаклей...Не верится,что после такого триумфа Сергей вскоре задумает покинуть балет,..О,Полунин!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the performance.
Possibly I misunderstand in translation, but, although he did seriously consider leaving ballet just a short time after the 2014 parts of this performance, he changed his mind while working on the "Take Me to Church" video in early 2015. So, I wouldn't agree that Sergei has ever left ballet. And he is still a very active dancer. His company, Polunin Ink, produced 3 new ballets (all of which he performs the leading male role in) in 2019 alone. ("Little Red and the Wolf", Johan Kobborg's "Romeo and Juliet", and "Rasputin".) Not to mention his many other performances in 2019 and 2020, including a new dance choreographed by Jade Hale-Christofi that he premiered live in Moscow just a couple of weeks ago.
Beautiful Kristyna Shapran and Mikirtshevas Gamzatti!
I’m very happy you enjoyed.
Thank you for this super compilation, and for including all the curtain calls, especially the one with Natalia Makarova. Special 👏
I have to admit that I didn’t read the description before watching (sorry) and was initially confused by the multiple Nikiya’s. I thought I was mistaking one for another 🙄. Mea culpa.
Thank you for making this compilation. It’s a tremendous record of Sergei as Solor, and his partners in this ballet 🙏
Thanks so much for commenting! So glad you enjoyed it!
It is unfortunate not to have continuity of dancers throughout the entire piece. But it does, at least, give an opportunity to see different dancers' take on a role...
I don't always have an option, but when I have several videos from the same part of the ballet featuring different dancers I struggle with the choice between which to favor: continuity or production value. Or even more agonizing, as was the case with some lower quality Zakharova footage I had for this ballet, when I'll prefer one performance over another, but to include it would sacrifice continuity and/or the quality of the video.
Being a fan of Sergei (obviously), in the end, I always lean toward whatever performance makes him look best. And I try to keep track of where I got the original footage so I can point people back to all the lovely pieces that wound up on the "cutting room floor".
I would be making the videos for myself even if no one else wanted to see them, but it's very exciting to me to have other people get enjoyment from my efforts. And it's very rewarding to possibly be able to give back a little something to Sergei by giving more people a chance to see him shine.
I agree with you about making videos for your own enjoyment (most important to do what YOU love) and then it’s an added bonus if other people like it. I do! And as you say anything to inform others of Sergei is good.
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Have you a plan to do something similar with the Verona Romeo and Juliet clips? If you were not there I could help with ordering the clips 😉
@Fiona Erleigh I would love to do something similar with just about any of Sergei's performances that aren't already available elsewhere. I don't currently have very much high quality from the Verona R&J. I found a couple of channels that had uploaded some videos and I have those on a playlist here, but I would be happy if you could point me in the direction of any more videos.
Also if you know of any extended footage of other ballets Sergei is in, I'd be happy to know! You may know of some I don't already have.
That is crazy awesome!!!
SO glad you enjoyed!! (And that there was no upheaval in the stars... It's POLUNIN! And, of course, the lovely ladies. You can't just listen, you have to WATCH. Haha.)
Yes!!!😁😁
Прекрасный состав! И Макарова молодец: сделала последнее действие по поставке Петипа
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks very much. Wonderful as ever.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed.
I am watching this with "near complete" vision !
I hope, despite the incompleteness of the ballet and the limitations of the editing skills displayed, that you "completely" enjoy.
Beautiful lovely I 🥰 loved 🥰 wonderful young people God Bless job weld
Done. Thank you 🙏.
Thank you very much! So glad you enjoyed.
Sergei is the best
I think so too!! Love him. I'm so glad you enjoyed!
Sergei Polunin un corpo snello e slanciato, un uomo completo della sua scelta di essere un grande ballerino. Credo che sia uno dei migliori al mondo
He is a very beautiful and mesmerizing dancer. Thanks for watching and commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed.
@@IndiaInk per favore vorrei sapere quando Sergei ritorna a Verona, possibilmente rispondete in italiano grazie
@@francescopolverino2901 I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian. I'm using Google translate to read your message. I'm only a fan of Sergei's, so only know what tour information he has published. The best way to know tour information is to follow his Facebook or Instagram pages. facebook.com/sergeipolunin.dancer/
@@IndiaInk thank you
@@francescopolverino2901 You're welcome.
Finally getting to this. Just FYI, the two parts of Act 1, Scene 2 are backwards. Solor enters and is introduced to Gamzatti, the djampe dancers come on (this is the close-up of Solor and Gamz sitting over one of the chessboards, THEN the fight with Gamz and Nikiya. This production was my first Bayadere, so I'm enjoying the stroll down memory lane! (You mentioned you hadn't ever seen the ballet, so there you go). If the first Nikiya is Natalia Somova, she's gorgeous and very Makarova-like, and I can't believe how soft her shoes are. She articulates her feet beautifully.
Edit: Pantone just announced its colors of the year for 2021, and they very much resemble the costumes for Nik and Gamz in that scene: illuminating (yellow) and a grey that has a similar saturation to Nik's blue.
Yes, the first Nikiya in this is Natalia Somova. I didn't recognize her at first with the darker hair, as I'm used to seeing her blond. As I've been going through these ballets and seen different ballerinas in the same roles, she has become one of my very favorites.
Thanks for the corrections. I was making my best guesses and would have to look at the source footage to tell you why I thought that was the correct order. I cringe at the work involved, but since I keep coming across more - and sometimes better - footage of different ballets and am slowly getting better at knowing what I'm doing in editing, I might at some point go in and and re-edit all the ballets I've done. So that information will be helpful to know if I ever get to it.
As a recovering perfectionist, I cringe at all the errors I know are in the edited ballets. (I initially made them for myself, so I was more permissive with the errors than I would normally be). But I don't have the time to fix them right now when I have other, new projects I'd rather work on. (Matching footage and trying to choose between two or more brilliant performances is very time-consuming!) I'm glad people are able to enjoy them anyway!
@@IndiaInk Also a recovering perfectionist lols! Thanks for compositing all these great videos!
I'm going to pin this so people can see your correction to the scene order. Which is a lot faster than editing the entire video at the moment. Haha.
@@minissa2009 You're welcome! Hopefully I can cut down on the errors in future edits. I have several ballets left on my "to do" list...
I saw Makarova dance her La Bayadere at the Met in the 1980 with the America Ballet Theater. The male principal was nowhere near as memorable as Sergei but Natalia Makarova was unforgettable, as always.
On my way home everyday from work I pass an old farm house with grey shingles and a front door painted in that exact shade of yellow. Stunning.
браво люблю восхищаюсь
Thanks!
Великолепное исполнение! А кто танцует Никию? Прекрасный Образ! Только сейчас прочла, что партию Никии танцуют три великолепных балерины!
Yes, three dancers are dancing Nikiya in this video. I edited it together from several different performances. I believe the dancer performing Nikiya in the background of the You Tube thumbnail is Kristina Shapran. (Erika Mikirticheva is in the foreground as Gamzatti.)
класс!!!
Glad you enjoyed!
Wonderful, thanks so much? Is Gamzatti in the last act Oksana Kardash? I think that's the best I've seen her solo done. Could you possibly credit the Bronze Idol? He was also excellent. I can't think of any "Solor" moments that got missed, great job cobbling them together!
Sorry, I'm not sure who the bronze idol is. I included the credits that were available in the source videos. If I run across the credit at a later point, I'll make sure to add it.
Yes, most of the Gamazatti in the last act is Oksana Kardash. (I used two different performances and am not completely sure, and don't have the time at the moment to check to see if she was the performer in both. Sorry!)
I'm glad you enjoyed. It's a lot of work, but was worth it to me. I'm glad other people also enjoy it, despite its mistakes!
So, I came across some credits for one of the source videos and it listed Dmitry Zagrebin, but not what role he danced. So, it's possible this is who danced the Idol. I put a question mark in the video description. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along and help clear up any questions some day...
Когда и где поставлен спектакль?
These are several performances edited together. They were performed in 2013 and 2014 by the Stanislavsky Ballet, Moscow. It appears to be at The Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre.
Да, Золотой божок это Дмитрий Загребин
Thanks! I will update the description.
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