...and wear pantyhose

Men still aren’t afraid to dance to this day.

Helena Vascon I’m learning ballet, and looking at these videos help me understand certain rules better, and make sense of them. like the famous “always heel presented forward”, the arms placement, etc

This is simply exquisite!!

Subiu agora pra 68. Infelizmente.

Hence, colonization, exploitation, slavery, etc, Enjoy your fantasy world!

@@drawwithme6634 LOL RIGHT

A. Abrine .... I think you put it beautifully. And it’s not a fantasy world. We know the fashion, we know the clothing, we know the etiquette, and most of all we still listen to Handel’s music, we still listen to Bach’s music etc. The injustices of history are with us but beauty and the aesthetic can still inspire us and console us and entertain us.

@@drawwithme6634 Get over it.

I take no sides in this matter. I just find it sad that someone would enjoy this kind of uplifting and mesmerising music while also have a proclivity for violence, war, exploitation, colonisation, slavery. Do you not find it morally reprehensible? So, let's stop romanticising the past. Find your conscience. It is somewhere still accessible, I pray.

quite agree with you...I am reminded of the message of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg regarding the preeminent importance and role of great art and culture for all humanity...in addition, I have an intense interest in history in general and now suspect that what certain renegade amateur historians have recently proposed may in fact be correct: that a glorious golden age was something not so far back as we have been led to believe...and that such a time may again return to us all not so far off in the future as one might think

There is some very lovely contemporary "classical" music out there.

I honestly do not agree. As much as I would like to and as much as I love to dive into past eras, I wouldn't want to live in them. Fancy dresses and nice music is simply not all civilisation has to offer. (Despite the fact that fashion and music in this video are about 50 years apart, so yeah, music nostalgia ... aka 'the good old days when Haendel composed the Watermusic') Civilisation is also social circumstances, politics, philosophy and so on. Especially the 19th century has huge developments in the fields of music, literature and art. Basic education became available for everyone and voting (sometimes even with UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE * gasp *) more and more became a thing. The time saw improvements in many aspects of living. But usually rather for the upper and middle class, which didn't really make up that big a chunk of the population. Still, the reality for the majority of the population was work in factories or domestic areas, all under horrible working conditions (and that's just inside Europe. I'm not going to talk about the colonies which were what made the upper class lifestyle possible). Nowadays we have voting with universal suffrage, mandatory free education until the age of 16, strict (though sometimes not strict enough) laws protecting children, workers and all humans in general, equal rights for men and women, the possibility of taking up a different profession than your parents and pursuing your own goals and dreams, though sometimes at great expense. This might very well be the first time in human history where we can pride ourselves with this amount of equality and freedom. If the price for that is putting up with the questionable lifestyle of others, I'm quite ok with it. Honestly, I like to believe this time to be the height of our civilisation. Because beauty can actually still be found after breaking through the fassade. Shit, this got longer than I expected. Sorry.

Let's not make this political, shall we?

Graup It is impossible not to do so when Europe is falling into the hands of immigrants.

I must agree in that it would've been nice to see the ladies fancy footwork, which must've been remarkable under those heavy gowns. Needless to say, they tried to recreate the original era as closely as possible, from costumes & steps to the wonderful orchestration played on correct Period Instruments.

​@@Coupydogone does see at least pas de bourees beneath the voluminous costume of the female soloist. Appropriate for the bouree form

Oh, indeed. I shall keep a look out for you.

@@louisxiv631 🌋A BAS LA MONARCHIE!!!

..so that would make you an Est 250-260 years old. Really 😕

How exquisite to see the delicate perfection performed to elegant music created for this very purpose! Having listened to the music for years,visited the palaces, and viewed the portraits of the very people who enjoyed such beauty, not ever did I think I would have the pleasure to treasure it! Thank you! Thank you ! Do give us more.

Before the baroque almost any healthy person could just dance and flirt, but as time went on court dancing became more and more a job for the pros, hence ballet. The nobles had lots of time to learn to dance.

@@Callimo Jealous?

This stellar Performance was recorded back in 1987, possibly that will help?

@@bruschmidt9943 Yes it will help thank you.