Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

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Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

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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.

@RoyalBalletAndOpera 11 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.

@lefauteuilparesseux7971 2 жыл бұрын

It spells le Diable BOITEUX

@myindigoblues5796 2 жыл бұрын

I love watching Romany dance. She’s so engaging. Bravo 👏

@wrouillie 11 жыл бұрын

I love the low sweeping movement with her hands, it is different.

@paulagebhardt6018 7 жыл бұрын

This dancer has a great facial performance as well!

@MariellaOakesBooktopia 10 жыл бұрын

that was absolutely lovely, loved everything and I am really in love with this series

@juliette3597 10 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.

@radiantonion8615 4 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.

@richardcleveland8549 2 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.

@bigeyesxx 11 жыл бұрын

The dance is very flirtatious.

@user-on6db4rf4s 7 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

@juanjosefarina 6 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.

@seasands9644 6 жыл бұрын

juan Farina TRUE...

@sarahkatecochran446 5 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.😊

@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 3 жыл бұрын

You’re being taught wrong.

@lalrinnghetisonset9072 2 жыл бұрын

Still watching now ❤️ love every magical movement

@BytomGirl 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful... and I LOVE this beautiful dress

@PieterHanja 9 жыл бұрын

great series, with great dancers, thanks

@mml0082 2 жыл бұрын

She’s stunning 😍

@kirachandesuu 6 жыл бұрын

am i the only one who likes the long skirt(?)s more? like they look so swizhy and flowy >

@altongrimes 9 жыл бұрын

pretty Romany and beautifully done !

@Carambanoazul 3 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.

@stefannydvorak7919 3 жыл бұрын

@@Carambanoazul The name of the dancer is Romany...

@williamwoolhouse3702 4 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.

@TheFossilSisters 11 жыл бұрын

Oh! She is just lovely!

@mary.bx19 5 жыл бұрын

My name is Fanny for this reason

@kierralea6721 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know anything about Ballet but I love the torso thing . It's very feminine

@aspid21 11 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating, really love the series

@ramaajagadeesan2400 4 жыл бұрын

Wow how beautiful 👌🏻 she has such calm yet vibrant expression in her face that just blends so seamlessly with her swishing movements. 😊😊😊😊

@carolinagonzalez4057 5 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t stop starring at her facial expression and feet omg perfect dancer so magical

@herrbrucvald6376 6 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??...

@bogwitch268 5 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?

@persuasionausten 11 жыл бұрын

I agree! This series is great. :)

@Schokokuchnx33 11 жыл бұрын

I love this Series :)

@jamjalll 5 жыл бұрын

Great ! I 've thought that this choreography has desappeared

@hurluby 11 жыл бұрын

She supposedly had classes with the bolero dancer Dolores Serral, I think in Paris.

@henkknaap3940 11 жыл бұрын

Lovely danced !! The Royal Ballet does wonderful dance-education work !, with top quality !! Thank you for this.

@unaanguila 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@adriannespring8598 4 жыл бұрын

Wow that's an odd drippy move. 🤔 Nice for a back stretch but almost vertigo in body shift. Interesting!!

@metacarpitan 5 жыл бұрын

so good!!

@26LGL26 11 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!

@SilverInsanity 11 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.

@melikatalks7676 2 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

@sweetaliena 11 жыл бұрын

Me too. There's a clip of Komleva doing La Cachucha with castanets.

@nevroth 11 жыл бұрын

Much like Escuela Bolera. Did Elssler study in Spain at all?

@yutubero 11 жыл бұрын

BRAVO

@sunnyballet 10 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.

@Dutchfruitjar 7 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

@KaiGraceSings 7 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

@ainsliemarg7071 6 жыл бұрын

kai varnals they are called character shoes!

@juanjosefarina 6 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.