La danse online (streaming, vod, etc...)

[paco]

Le Royal Ballet, qui depuis le début du confinement ne diffuse en ligne que des vidéos déjà très largement commercialisées, vues et archi revues, va tout de même sortir un peu des lignes vendredi 15 mai en diffusant Anastasia de McMillan, avec Natalia Osipova, Marianela Nunez et Federico Bonelli.

J'avais vu ce spectacle et il mérite d'être visionné car il est très étonnant. Ce n'est pas le McMillan auquel on est habitués. Ce n'est pas non plus franchement une réussite ni un chef-d'oeuvre, le dernier acte notamment est longuet et assez ennuyeux une fois passée la surprise de la rupture de style. Mais cela vaut vraiment le coup de le regarder pour son originalité, pour connaître ce que McMillan a aussi fait en dehors des chefs d'oeuvre connus. Accessoirement, Osipova y est magistrale... (la reprise avait d'ailleurs été programmée à sa demande, sans quoi ce ballet rentrait probablement aux oubliettes de l'institution ).

[blaesm]

Dans le cadre de son programme quotidien en ligne, la Comédie Française consacre la journée du jeudi aux collaborations "hors les murs" de ses sociétaires.

Ainsi, après La Clémence de Titus mise en scène par D. Podalydès au TCE, retransmise ce soir, la journée de jeudi prochain (14 mai) sera consacrée à la danse, avec deux programmes :

- à 18h30, un court film (10mn) d'Anne Kessler sur les répétitions de Caligula, auquel avait collaboré G. Gallienne

- à 20h30 la diffusion de la captation officielle de La Source avec L. Pagliero, K. Paquette et M. Heymann, mémorable Zaël [scénographie d'E. Ruf]

[sophia]

Don Quichotte jusqu'à ce soir sur la chaîne du Bolchoï : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6zO-htPr8

[sophia]

Concerto DSCH à 2h cette nuit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyDkiXwuK0

[CatherineS]

Le San Francisco Ballet propose en ce moment Roméo et Juliette de Helgi Tomasson avec Mathilde Froustey et Carlo Di Lanno, acte par acte. Et si j'ai bien compris ils sortiront lundi une autre version de ce même Roméo dans une captation de 2015 avec Maria Kochetkova et Davit Karapetyan

https://www.facebook.com/sfballet/videos/927372487706344/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTA4ODEyMDgxMTozMDUwNTI4NjU4MzI2NzA4/

https://www.facebook.com/sfballet/videos/275079823621629/

https://www.facebook.com/sfballet/videos/3015640528459420/

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[Guido]

Disponible sur Youtube aussi en integralité

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1FkhrG4xBg

[CatherineS]

[Katharine Kanter]

For a change, I believe we need a statue to honour the living.

Svetlana EFREMOVA

Take a look at this.

There isn't a woman in the world with this level of technique today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvum8elaJ3o

and she was still right up there twenty years later.

Efremova is so high up in the body and off the hip, that her feet barely touch the ground. Nonobstant those dire low-vamp shoes.

Every port de bras is perfect - not a hyper-extended elbow or broken wrist.

Her menées (courus) are so tiny, so swift they are quite literally a blur.

Although she is only 5 foot tall, the plastique of the academic figures is ideal.

Unlike quite a few Kirov ballerinas of that time, she does not suffer from FHP (forward head posture) - look at the deep groove down her back with its powerful para-spinatus muscles to see why.

Her variations are very difficult versions of the choreography, so there is, I must acknowledge, some tension in the neck, but hey, Roses have THORNS and this is QUITE SOME ROSE.

Why write thousands of words, argue till one's blue in the face as to WHY CLASSICAL DANCE EXISTS? One glance at this technique and artistry, and THE POINT IS CLEAR.

Vikulov has less fun choreography, very much the Soviet in-your-face versions, but he seems to have all the time in the world in the upper body. And the "Bien Parado" of the tours!

Russia dear, it's back to the drawing board. Get those legs down and stop the stretching, NOW. Guillemitis has wrecked what was once a very great school.

[Katsu]

Histoire de rire un peu, en ces temps troublés...

Pas de Quatre (Pugni) - Ballets de Trockadero.
https://youtu.be/hSuXuGOkfQE

Bon week-end à tous.

[Katharine Kanter]

The Trocks are fantastic.

The thrill, the excitement of the thing, is that they dance far better than most female dancers today - wonderful dancers, respectful of the style in everything they do, and musical - and above all, unlike most female dancers today, with the strength to execute the steps properly without over-turnng out or hyper-extending.

Give or take the IN YOUR FACE tricks and hamming it up, and bearing in mind that classical dance is ALSO supposed to be PLAYFUL for Heaven's sake, one is seeing the steps more or less as women should actually be dancing them.

And as one never sees them danced today.

They probably took it off from this - also FABULOUS version, with Mia Slavenska, then aged about 47 (Yes!!!) dated 1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPugalZ9S_A


ADDENDUM - today, Sunday.

I've actually understood things watching the Trocks, that had escaped me, before.

Classical dancing today is sterile - everything has to be so perfect, so turned out, so hard-pointed, so this, so that - the ECSTASY is gone.

The Trocks just go for it. Their stock-in-trade, is to go for it. If the dancer hears something in the music, an affect, a mood, some proto-idea flittering by, he goes for it.

Each shape, each step in classical dance is supposed to MEAN SOMETHING. Not in isolation, but to the music. The shapes, the steps themselves, carry a meaning which many - most - of us blithely or not so blithely, ignore, because we are expected to be so utterly, boringly perfect.

Yes, the Trocks exaggerate. But that's what art is about - making some tiny motion in the mind legible to other people.

Being over the top, nowadays, is the only way to let the steps and shapes tell us what they were once invented to tell.

These fellows get closer to the source of supply than most of us.

[sophia]

Roméo et Juliette de Christian Spuck, avec le Ballet de Zurich : https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/spielplan/streaming/romeo-und-julia/

[DaDanse]

Souls d'Olivier Dubois : https://vimeo.com/288726973.

[DaDanse]

Sounddance de Merce Cunningham par le Ballet de Lorraine : https://vimeo.com/413256823.

[DaDanse]

Bach en sept paroles avec Saburo Teshigawara et Rihoko Sato : https://live.philharmoniedeparis.fr/concert/1072506/bach-en-sept-paroles-lumieres-raphael-pichon-ensemble-pygmalion.html (à partir du 11 mai, 20h30).

[DaDanse]

Stop-motion (Sol León et Paul Lightfoot) et The Statement (Crystal Pite) par le NDT1 : https://www.france.tv/spectacles-et-culture/theatre-et-danse/1421261-ndt-1-savoir-faire-stop-motion-the-statement.html (disponible jusqu'au 12 mai).