An introduction to ballerina Fanny Elssler, famed during her lifetime for dancing The Cachucca. With Royal Ballet dancer Romany Pajdak, former ballet mistress Ursula Hageli and pianist Paul Stobart.
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@bubble8829 Жыл бұрын
Romany Pajdak is so very good in all these Ballet Evolved clips. She nails every style, so far as I can see.
@elizzy8754 Жыл бұрын
True. She is a gorgeous classical dancer but she also has a special gift for the so-called character dances - Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, etc. Her épaulement and facial expression are exceptional.
@RoyalBalletAndOpera11 жыл бұрын
We aren't sure precisely what the story was. What we do know is that this dance was first performed within a ballet called The Lady of the Lake in 1812 and then Fanny Elssler danced it in Le Diable Bateaux (1836) with choreography by Jean Coralli.
@lefauteuilparesseux79712 жыл бұрын
It spells le Diable BOITEUX
@myindigoblues57962 жыл бұрын
I love watching Romany dance. She’s so engaging. Bravo 👏
@wrouillie11 жыл бұрын
I love the low sweeping movement with her hands, it is different.
@paulagebhardt60187 жыл бұрын
This dancer has a great facial performance as well!
@MariellaOakesBooktopia10 жыл бұрын
that was absolutely lovely, loved everything and I am really in love with this series
@juliette359710 жыл бұрын
Thank you so, so much for this entire series. I have been a fan of the Royal Ballet video series since the first videos emerged showing coaching of Odette and Carabosse. Thank you so, so much for documenting these histories for the dance world and presenting them publicly for free in such a professional and lovely way. I have shared them with many of my students and it's an enormous benefit to dancers for so many reasons. I love revisiting them, and each time I discover some new aspect.
@radiantonion86154 жыл бұрын
there are so many fabulous dancers at the Royal ballet. I haven't seen much of Romany but she's really lovely!
@katiekawaii Жыл бұрын
Her expressions are captivating.
@richardcleveland85492 жыл бұрын
Elegant - very elegant, indeed. There's a reference in one of the G&S operettas - "Gondoliers," I think - to dancing the Cachucca, which certainly represents the popularity of the dance in that period.
@bigeyesxx11 жыл бұрын
The dance is very flirtatious.
@user-on6db4rf4s7 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful! I loved the torso movements, it added life and flow to the dance, unlike in my place where ballet is taught as a lifeless blocky thing made up of strict movements
@juanjosefarina6 жыл бұрын
One huge problem with many ballet teachers... They think ballet has no torso movement, and it's so wrong. It has, and should have even more.
@seasands96446 жыл бұрын
juan Farina TRUE...
@sarahkatecochran4465 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you grew up with a very strict method? I teach Ceccetti and we use a great deal of torso movement, but there is always more that can be done.😊
@notyourtypicalwatchreview25633 жыл бұрын
You’re being taught wrong.
@lalrinnghetisonset90722 жыл бұрын
Still watching now ❤️ love every magical movement
@BytomGirl3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful... and I LOVE this beautiful dress
@PieterHanja9 жыл бұрын
great series, with great dancers, thanks
@mml00822 жыл бұрын
She’s stunning 😍
@kirachandesuu6 жыл бұрын
am i the only one who likes the long skirt(?)s more? like they look so swizhy and flowy >
@altongrimes9 жыл бұрын
pretty Romany and beautifully done !
@Carambanoazul3 жыл бұрын
It is a Romani dance, first adopted by the Spanish and interpreted in their style, and eventually caming to be known as “bolero” dancing, probably a Romani word itself, having to do with the word “bol/bolo”, meaning rythmic syllable, used profusely in Gipsy dancing across the world.
@stefannydvorak79193 жыл бұрын
@@Carambanoazul The name of the dancer is Romany...
@williamwoolhouse37024 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Merle Park dance The Cachucca at a Gala at The Royal Opera House way back in the 70s.She bought the house down as you can well imagine.
@TheFossilSisters11 жыл бұрын
Oh! She is just lovely!
@mary.bx195 жыл бұрын
My name is Fanny for this reason
@kierralea67215 жыл бұрын
I don't know anything about Ballet but I love the torso thing . It's very feminine
@aspid2111 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating, really love the series
@ramaajagadeesan24004 жыл бұрын
Wow how beautiful 👌🏻 she has such calm yet vibrant expression in her face that just blends so seamlessly with her swishing movements. 😊😊😊😊
@carolinagonzalez40575 жыл бұрын
I couldn’t stop starring at her facial expression and feet omg perfect dancer so magical
@herrbrucvald63766 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see Pajdak in an evening-length role. Beautiful. I've just read the choreography for the first 'white', Romantic ballet, the 'Ballet of the Nuns' in Act 3 of the opera 'Robert le Diable', was written down by Bournonville, the choreographer, in 1841. ...So when is the RB going to recreate this ballet??...
@bogwitch2685 жыл бұрын
Hi, apologies for coming in a year late to your comment, but I'm doing my masters thesis on ballet from this period! Where did you find the ballet of the nuns choreography, I can't seem to get hold of it?
@persuasionausten11 жыл бұрын
I agree! This series is great. :)
@Schokokuchnx3311 жыл бұрын
I love this Series :)
@jamjalll5 жыл бұрын
Great ! I 've thought that this choreography has desappeared
@hurluby11 жыл бұрын
She supposedly had classes with the bolero dancer Dolores Serral, I think in Paris.
@henkknaap394011 жыл бұрын
Lovely danced !! The Royal Ballet does wonderful dance-education work !, with top quality !! Thank you for this.
@unaanguila5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@adriannespring85984 жыл бұрын
Wow that's an odd drippy move. 🤔 Nice for a back stretch but almost vertigo in body shift. Interesting!!
@metacarpitan5 жыл бұрын
so good!!
@26LGL2611 жыл бұрын
I think that it's Le Diable Boiteux instead of Le Diable Bateaux (wich means absolutely nothing). Romany is really beautiful in this. Thank you for uploding!
@SilverInsanity11 жыл бұрын
I've seen a couple pictures of this piece, I think done by the Mariinsky Ballet (assuming it's the same thing?), and they always seem to be wearing character shoes. I guess it's just how it is.
@melikatalks76762 жыл бұрын
Why is nobody asking about the shoes? What are those called? Why did they wear them? What are they made of? I have so many questions
@sweetaliena11 жыл бұрын
Me too. There's a clip of Komleva doing La Cachucha with castanets.
@nevroth11 жыл бұрын
Much like Escuela Bolera. Did Elssler study in Spain at all?
@yutubero11 жыл бұрын
BRAVO
@sunnyballet10 жыл бұрын
brilliant
@mgabrielaestrada Жыл бұрын
Wonderful work! Just a note. There is a typo on the dance variation's title of "La Cachucha" in the reference by Fanny Elsslers lithograph at the 0:16 mark (the "h" is missing after the "c," showing the title as Cachuca instead of Cachucha.
@Dutchfruitjar7 жыл бұрын
I could have done ballet back then. Now days, "Ok, now down and touch your toes." Me, "Well, this was fun while it lasted." lol
@KaiGraceSings7 жыл бұрын
What are those shoes? This question sounds rude but I swear I am curious as I've never seen dancing shoes like those
@ainsliemarg70716 жыл бұрын
kai varnals they are called character shoes!
@juanjosefarina6 жыл бұрын
It maybe out of this little fragment of the seminar, but why you don't mention Friedrich Albert Zorn, his work in notation, and his book where you actually extracted the notated choreography for La Cachucha and showed it on screen ? I find it very insulting to his lifework, I really hope you do mentioned him but it got out of this fragment.
@tammystiletto4 жыл бұрын
Would she have worn a corset back then??
@ducadimantua111 жыл бұрын
Steps alone won't do. I wonder why she is wearing character shoes and I wonder why she has no castanets.
@Kolly_er8 жыл бұрын
clean pair of sneaks
@LindaCasey5 жыл бұрын
I was Fanny Elssler ...
@notyourtypicalwatchreview25633 жыл бұрын
Considering the whale bone corsets of the time, I doubt Ellsler touched the floor.
@lefauteuilparesseux79712 жыл бұрын
感觉最后那一下好像样板戏的亮相…李奶奶
@maryann83ify7 жыл бұрын
"..сначала он сыграл ей Качучу.."
@stebembiandthetrees45237 жыл бұрын
I fell asleep watching youtube. how tf did I get here...?
@MAGICDANCEPOPOVA3 жыл бұрын
Спасибо, очень интересно. Но у танцоров конечно уровень ниже русских и французов