On Nov 9, 1:23 pm, "keith" <kbu86...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> exactly where do I get them?"Arrow" <Dunha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > As more and more "long forgotten ballet vhs" programs are being re-
> > issued in DVD,
> > occasionally budget DVD you have to buy on the internet from China,
> > two of
> > Ulanova's programs have been re-issued to fantastic tehcnical
> > improvements in the old VHS.
> > STARS OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET is a program of excerpts from SWAN
> > LAKE,
> > FOUNTAIN OF BACHISARAY and FLAMES OF PARIS, filmed when Ulanova was
> > 43 years old. It includes footage of Ulanova dancing with her first
> > partner, Konstantin Sergeyev, (before he went on to choreograph a
> > version of LE CORSAIRE still used by
> > ABT today), as well as valuable and exciting footage of some of her
> > most famous contem****aries including Dudinskaya, Chabukiani and 27
> > year old Maya Plisetskaya (who was already in the Bolshoi when this
> > film was made). FOUNTAIN was created on Ulanova by Lavrovsky in 1934.
> > I have always thought that the three arabesques involving extensions
> > of increasing amplitude, which Ulanova's character dances in response
> > to an allegation made by Plisetskaya's character in what was Act III
> > of the original ballet, represent Ulanova at her greatest, but with
> > the
> > new clarity of the DVD, there is so much more of Ulanova's celebrated
> > technique
> > to marvel at. For example, Ulanova's air work in her character's
> > birthday
> > party scene seems to, if anything, "out-distance" Plisetskaya's much-
> > marveled-
> > at elevation when Plisetskaya's charcter gain's entrance to Ulanova's
> > room by leaping over the
> > crouched/sleeping figure of the chaperone. As well, the clarity of the
> > DVD gives
> > MUCH more to marvel at, as the exquisite timing and elegance of
> > Ulanova's wrist
> > finials.
> > The abridged GISELLE was filmed during two live performances in
> > London when
> > Ulanova was 46 years old and the enthusiastically "bravoed"name star"
> > of the first Bolshoi tour in the West. The original vhs had EXTREMELY
> > BAD COLOR QUALITY,so that Ulanova's make-up as the Polish peasant girl
> > seemed best not viewed too closely. This is completely cleared
> > up in the DVD, so the full effect of Ulanova's creation of an
> > inexperienced and vulnerable
> > young maiden can be marvelled at, as well as Ulanova's performance
> > during the
> > last fifteen minutes of the ballet, where her justly marvelled-at air
> > work in the
> > sixteen entrechats quatres en diagonale and in the fourth movement of
> > the grand pas (which was supposed to have been added at the Kirov in
> > the
> > nineteenth century) have long been considered among the "msot
> > spectacular athletic
> > feats" ever commercially recorded in ballet. One of the most
> > incredible
> > things about this performance is that while the variation with the
> > hops en pointe
> > and the drama-ballet in the forest with Albrecht are both omitted from
> > the
> > film, ULANOVA HAD ACTUALLY BEEN REGULARLY DANCING THE ROLE AT THE
> > KIROV
> > BEFORE THE VARIATION WITH THE HOPS EN POINTE HAD BECOME
> > STANDARD CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACT ONE.
> > The greater clarity of the DVD makes for some other improvements
> > as well. The
> > divertissement program which begins the DVD has some rare footage of
> > the famous Raise Struchkova, as well as Ulanova's performace in THE
> > DYING
> > SWAN. While the Hilarion of the GISELLE performance is uncredited on
> > the
> > vhs and recorded in VERY poor quality on that issue, the performer
> > turns out
> > to be the famous Levashev on the DVD. Hisxtraordinary performance as "
> > forester
> > much more handsome and much more masculine than Albrecht" as well as
> > better
> > mannered, culminates in a VERY great performance of the "Hilarion and
> > the
> > Wilis" set piece in the second act which may be one of the marvels
> > of footage recorded in this time period.
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you have to check on e-bay; I believe that the program with abridged
GISELLE comes from
China, and the other is called STARS OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET.
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