soooo perfect and amazing, this is the last year we can see Sylvie on the stage, 2015, 50 years old and the most incredible dancer we have never seen before and maybe after, thanks Sylvie, you are an inspiration in dance world.
@dmann3g14 жыл бұрын
Sylvie is still the most AMAZING classical dancer to appear on stage. Not only did she have a ridiculous, and out of theis world facility, but she had such impeccable musicality. Did u see how she took the 'In The Middle' music and made it fit her choreography? That, I tell you, is hard to teach. Many dancers with great facilities, but to be able to literally manipulate it and gain what we call true 'control'...priceless
@elenaandrew84143 жыл бұрын
Still
@Batavia00717 жыл бұрын
She works so hard for any of her roles. She always gives 100% of her ability artistically and tecnically. She is a living legend...
@spinningheaddotcom17 жыл бұрын
I remember this documentary! Sylvie Guillem is absolutely amazing and was one of my idols when I was doing ballet during the 80s. Her flexibility, control, and extension are unreal. Thanks for putting this up for everyone!
@leoninsf17 жыл бұрын
This is Sylvie Guillem, perhaps one of the world most famous ballerinas in our time. She is rehearsing "In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated" Chor. by William Forsythe. The piece is physically & technically difficult & challenging. Mr. Forsythe created this dance to showcase Ms. Guillem's extraordinary skills, the dance is quite modern.Anyhow, the choreography is NOT bad at all, just different.
@spceinadreamroom15 жыл бұрын
this video is so hard to watch!!! she's in so much pain..her feet are killing her. i remember being in this position before. you can see how hard she's trying to hold it back..wow what a trooper
@vladimirritter24495 жыл бұрын
Phenomenon
@altongrimes13 жыл бұрын
I purchased this video in the 80's and have watched it "a thousand times". Like some eternal meditation and intimate "window" on to the magnificent Sylvie Guillem and the supremely talented William Forsythe. I must say that I am now following Polina Seminova with that same sense of awe and excitement.
@fouette8313 жыл бұрын
sylvie guillem y mikhail baryshnikov son y seran por siempre los mejores bailarines de la historia
@chicelephante13 жыл бұрын
In class, they always talk about "everything being one movement," and it always made sense to me, but watching Guillem's dancing makes that idea come to life.
@ThirzaLynetteClarke-ku9dq Жыл бұрын
How wonderful to be physically and mentally well. There is no fear.
@fresia5813 жыл бұрын
Astonishing dancer in all expressions and details too
@briseboy4 жыл бұрын
I KNEW it was Billy Forsythe from the back of his head (as well as the movement) immediately. This is marvelous for both that he both worked with Sylvie as he prized what was in her agility and style in his choreography.(many lithe Soviet and later Russian ballerinas should have had such opportunity, even though gushing youtube commenters have NO idea of the breadth of talent an d movement capacity in worlds they did not, nor possibly will know, exist). There is more, is the proper response, always.. Gamelan? related music . . .
@Ave8817 жыл бұрын
Simply the most beautiful ballerina of all time, in my opinion. She has an endless talent.
@moushka26924 жыл бұрын
Sublime! Unique, one of a kind. Thank goodness for the films that show her virtuosity as I never got to see her live. Such a gift to the world.
@rabidchinchilla57013 жыл бұрын
"If i was shy, i think i still m shy. It seems silly 2 say it, but its not b/c u go on stage that u r very ez in life, & very communicative....Maybe the fact 2 b difficult, & shy, or aggressive,or wtevr, it gives u sumthing more onstage b/c it opens a gate onstage that u close as soon as u r off stage." S. Guillem.
@livethedarkdream15 жыл бұрын
I almost cried when she took off her pointe shoes
@pointemeout15 жыл бұрын
ah. perfection. i love you sylvie
@rabidchinchilla57013 жыл бұрын
"Its 2 diff personalities...not just 4 myself..wen u go onstage u hav 2 b. On stage, i am free.i m myself sumtimes, i am sumbodyelse othertimes. I can express watever i want. I wont b judged. So its quite comfortable 4 sum1 2 hav all of the possibilities in the world & to hav all the facets u can hav. B the faces of so many characters. U can b violent. U can b in love. U can hate. U can do evrithing on stage. In life its much more difficult...b/c u don't live alone. On stage u can." S. Guillem
@snaildealer17 жыл бұрын
She is so amazing...
@pickypickersons14 жыл бұрын
AMAZING! thanks for posting!!!
@frenchfries76153 жыл бұрын
Forsythe a eu de la chance de passer pour un génie grâce à Sylvie Guillem!
@janiakowska13 жыл бұрын
the greatest of all
@spinningheaddotcom17 жыл бұрын
I don't remember. This is the first time I've seen it since 1989 or so, but it aired on Bravo back in the day. I think it might have just been called "Sylvie Guillem." Fascinating documentary!
@nolita8811 жыл бұрын
Exquisite. Such a rare quality today....
@pointemeout12 жыл бұрын
@kimmois1 darling....i learned years ago...some people don't understand that sylvie is the best. no point in arguing with them. they will never understand.
@datsmydj0711 жыл бұрын
this is Impressing the Czar: Middle Somewhat Elevated... nice to see this raw footage!
@fluffybunny5587 жыл бұрын
Perfection!
@AaronKong16 жыл бұрын
absolutely beautiful..she is so gud
@Redcatettore11 жыл бұрын
And, I think, nowadays standards are such, because Guillem introduced extreme extension anf flexibility and athelticism which weren't common in dance. She was also criticized for this.
@brunesansfiltre14807 жыл бұрын
I think that persons who criticized her because of her flexibility were just jealous...
@pointemeout15 жыл бұрын
i love you for understanding that.
@soniarodriguez50023 жыл бұрын
Diosa perfecta!!!
@nevroth15 жыл бұрын
It's called "In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated" by Forsythe
@81lavy12 жыл бұрын
William Forsythe's "In the middle, somewhat elevated"
@luluhouse711 жыл бұрын
JIFODSFJKL MORE FOOTAGE OF THIS !! OMG SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW there's soooooo little footage of sylvie in this!!
@Xebege15 жыл бұрын
i don't really think she's vintage....she is an 80's ballerina who can fit nowadays' standard type of dancing.....and that's really special....
@yonjooheero16 жыл бұрын
Such discipline she has to keep continuing when she feels extreme pain in her feet while wearing those pointe shoes. xD I guess that's what it takes to become a beautiful ballerina like Sylvie.
@lelleballerina14 жыл бұрын
spettacolaarreeeeee
@herrbrucvald63766 жыл бұрын
how i wish i had seen her Raymonda. Her R variation here on YT is stupefying.
@jocelynhamilton76243 жыл бұрын
I will definitely be using the concept of “awe-inducing to the point of stupefaction” in the future. I don’t know why I haven’t heard it, nor pieced it together until now.
@dansertoujours13 жыл бұрын
WOW!!!! around 2:27 she does a turn that's kind of..impressive! I can't even hold my leg still in an attitude a la seconde! she's awesomee
@0515anni17 жыл бұрын
it's better than her own film.
@fabiesque12 жыл бұрын
BRAVO'
@pointemeout14 жыл бұрын
sylvie. I'll see you this coming February.
@grouchocatman14 жыл бұрын
@Irritata I have read that as well. However, I also read an article / interview in which the 5'10" interviewer (1.78m) was surprised to find that he was taller than her.
@Vaninwe17 жыл бұрын
I think that seeing as he is not only professional but world famous, he can pretty much eat whenever he feels like it. He is not just any member of a ballet company, he is the choreographer.
@mymomdoesballet7414 жыл бұрын
i use to dream of being able to perform choreography like this in my sleep, maybe the new hip improvements will inspire new hope...ummm, tony where are you? gotta watch all of it!
@chelloandra13 жыл бұрын
al legs all pointe dancing almost acrobatics
@mangotango86992 ай бұрын
❤
@MsBeautifly315 жыл бұрын
i agree...but I guess that u price u pay for being amazing and wanting to be the best...truly beautiful
@rballettom17 жыл бұрын
it was Tina leBlanc. You raise a good point. Modern and contemporary pieces can be more dangerous if the ballet dancer does not have modern training. but even in preprofessional ranks these days you'd be hard pressed to find a dancer that isn't versed in modern as well as ballet.
@pointemeout14 жыл бұрын
@cooperneely what is this "greater facility" you speak of? I'm lost and confused because no dancer has greater ANYTHING than Sylvie. Not one. sorry hun but you must be mistaken
@katinkaballerina16 жыл бұрын
it's okay we all have those moments lol :)
@Ravel129912 жыл бұрын
@nolacoppel I've never seen anyone like her.
@aldretaldret43103 жыл бұрын
Tout est parfait, il faut préciser que son guide intervient sur les énergies, les rythmes, et le sens du passage qui peut aider à ajuster des positions dans le bon timing, mais la personne est parfaite. Je dis tout cela pour les néophytes...qui ne comprendraient pas 🤓 Une fois que la danseuse est archi prête, il y a ce travail là... Ce n’est pas rien. Vous voyez... 😘🌹
@tra4la17 жыл бұрын
His banana killed me!
@tutus4life17 жыл бұрын
yea i would like to see you dance as much as Sylvie. even though Sylvie is one of the best dancers ever, we all have our limits no matter how long you have been dancing. its better to save yourself and prevent an injury than to keep going until your muscles get so tired, they dont hold you up and risk twisting your ankle and not be able to perform and she DOES have major blisters, did you even WATCH the video???
@elisabolognesi14 жыл бұрын
madonna i piedi... K SOFFERENZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@pajutar16 жыл бұрын
The first bit of music and choreography is interesting - like exaggerated tango.
@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын
Pointe shoes = Instruments of torture
@TenduYou16 жыл бұрын
Those are some beat-up pointe shoes! Can't imagine how easy it is for her strong feet to tear them up like that.
@PrincessKimberly13 жыл бұрын
@nasaroxmysox1 Isn't this In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated?
@pytucalopez16 жыл бұрын
i dont know but she looks pretty young!
@judyo923 Жыл бұрын
God, her shoes were DEAD. I mean seriously. How could she even get on point in them? There were HUGE bags out the sides - no wonder she was in so much pain. But not only that - but why was no one there to say "stop rehearsing her to death!" on those shoes? I don't know. I feel some arts administrators - directors- and choreographers like to use artists up and spit them out.
@yonjooheero17 жыл бұрын
I like this performance better than Zakarahov's... or however you spell it.
@pointemeout12 жыл бұрын
@owenselkirk no one is getting there. no one.
@roskibo016 жыл бұрын
OMG! that guy is evil!! I mean eating infront of hyper tired dancers rehearsing!!! hahaha and yeah sylvie is just awsome she has beautiful lines and god she has flexibility and strenght oh and she makes it look so easy HA
@jennyluvballet13 жыл бұрын
Did she even have toe pads or lamb wool? Looking at it hurts. Anyways, she's just... beautiful, and perfect. My favorite ballerina of all times.
@Irritata14 жыл бұрын
she is 1,70m. I don't remember where I red it. Maybe on wikipedia. Anyway, what you say, it's not so true at the present. Durcey Bussel or also Natalia Volochkova are 1,80m and there are a lot of companies which requires 1,68m at least
@katinkaballerina16 жыл бұрын
in the begining it's William Forsythe's Ballet, "In the Middle Somewhat Elevated" not in the middle it's "Somewhat Elevated" lol
@natura197114 жыл бұрын
How tall is Sylvie Guillem? I always thought she was taller but I may be wrong.
@fouette8313 жыл бұрын
@twocrimsonroses envidia pura...!!!! jajaja
@odilemarais22543 жыл бұрын
Как она это делает? Как можно сделать подобное?
@owenselkirk13 жыл бұрын
yet to see someone who can match sylvie.. alina cojocaru is getting there..
@janglass82193 жыл бұрын
Sorry but not even close.
@katinkaballerina16 жыл бұрын
In the middle somewhat elevated
@jolicska4 ай бұрын
she was not cushioning her point shoes... wow
@lulumoralesl13 жыл бұрын
She's dancing with???
@susancollender64782 жыл бұрын
Isn’t the part where she has to take her shoes off from “Raymonda” (which she does more spectacularly than anyone, ever)?
@timothyknoll44173 жыл бұрын
A tragic soundscape
@pointemeout16 жыл бұрын
as always, she's fucking GORGEROUS! anyone know how old she is in this video??
@Melusineviolon14 жыл бұрын
I have always wondered, does anyone know? She looks so tall because she's got sooooo long legs, arms and neck, but she can't be so tall than she looks like, because of her partners, women dancers can't normally be taller then 1'68.
@andersonjaymez14 жыл бұрын
was she part of the original cast of this peice?
@francinesicard4642 жыл бұрын
This ballet was created for her by W. Forsythe
@ClumsyTheNinja13 жыл бұрын
@kimmios1 wow, really? Haha WOW.
@skylaru17 жыл бұрын
I´m not sure,but I think that guy in the yellow T-shirt is Forsythe...and I don´t understand why should he be awful???just because he´s eating???
@rballettom17 жыл бұрын
(in response to gbendanny1) Classical ballet can cause injuries too. A principal at San Francisco just recently tore her knee on stage in a production of Don Quixote. It's not just modern and contemporary ballet. Any type of dance runs the risk of injury. It's not the choreographer's fault, that's just the way dance is sometimes.
@grouchocatman14 жыл бұрын
@RONIDC1979 She is underpaid.
@skylaru17 жыл бұрын
by the way,this is not his piece.Kylian has different style in many ways...
@yonjooheero16 жыл бұрын
Most likely in her twenties, I'm guessing?
@odilemarais22543 жыл бұрын
Офонареть
@danilabarone33646 жыл бұрын
I have never ever seen anybody eating a sandwich during reherarsal, not live and not in any video...what a strange thing!
@princehal45005 жыл бұрын
Danila Barone I guess if you are William Forsythe you can eat a sandwich during rehearsal. 😂
@sampad1237 жыл бұрын
Always come back to this. Sylvie is the only dancer up there with the Russians. A bit of Svetlana + Vishneva.
@brunesansfiltre14807 жыл бұрын
No : just whole Guillem.
@CarolJWright17 жыл бұрын
Cannot modern engineers design a better point shoe? Major ouch!
@MeredithCabaniss15 жыл бұрын
all i can say is what? and i hope that's an "awe-full", instead of you just spelling "awful" wrong.
@owenselkirk13 жыл бұрын
@kimmois1 I said I havent seen someone who is as good as sylvie :S ??? Jesus get a life
@Alylavida17 жыл бұрын
ug for some reason i think that shes just not sucking it up like a dancer should. honestly pointe hurts but not THAT bad. not to the point where you have to stop in the middle of a variation, unless you have like MAJOR blisters or your injured.
@jocelynhamilton76243 жыл бұрын
I suspect the intensity of her pain was due to rehearsing William Forsythe’s extremely challenging and strenuous work at about the same time. Most dancers do have to suck it up even when overworked, but Ms. Guillem described having to crawl the mornings after she was working with Mr. Forsythe’s “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated”, however little that may have shown when the work was performed.
@alazjaw.89682 жыл бұрын
then maybe you should fucking do it.
@janglass82193 жыл бұрын
Sylvie can make anything look good. And that was fortunate because that piece in the beginning was garbage - just meaningless steps set to noise. Ugh! Why are charlatans allowed to do this to dancers? That garbage didn't belong anywhere near Sylvie's great talent.
@nasaroxmysox113 жыл бұрын
I have never seen ballet so sassy. What is this?
@RONIDC197914 жыл бұрын
I hear she is payed the equivalent to 20,000 each time she steps on stage
@francinesicard4642 жыл бұрын
And?
@youyouooxx17 жыл бұрын
it's just a modern dance, i thought the chore was wonderful! but yes i agree with u that the yellow-shirt guy is quite awful..
@hermit8817 жыл бұрын
I saw Sylvie in "Rise & Fall" - a modern, but very beautiful, ballet. I'm afraid what this clip shows is disjointed, awkward, unattractive. Sometimes modern choreography is, like modern art, simply degenerative.