Vaganova's 1946 Russian/Soviet ballet film: Method of Classical Dance - Методика классического танца

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In note 3 of the Supplement section of her Basic Principles of Classical Ballet, Agrippina Vaganova writes:
"In order to preserve all our achievements for posterity it is necessary to resort to the aid of the motion picture, which will be a great contribution to the immortalization of our art. The years are passing by, and we hope that our achievements, registered on film, will aid future generations to learn and perfect themselves.
In the not too distant future our first experience in this field will be shown to a wide public: pictures of the methodology of classical ballet at the Moscow and Leningrad Ballet Schools. This film will be a scientific aid in outlying districts as well."
This is that film.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Titles
01:13 Credits begin
01:31 Agrippina Vaganova and Nikolai I. Tarasov
02:08 Olga Lepeshinskaya, Asaf Messer, Yuri Fayer
02:30 Lidiya Rafailova, Natalia Kamkova, Lidia Tyuntina
02:52 Introduction
04:30 Training begins at 6 years old with setting the legs, hands, and head
05:30 Starting leg positions
05:57 First position
06:17 Second position
06:31 Third position
06:43 Fifth position
07:00 Fourth position
07:21 Hands
08:27 Basic arm positions
09:42 SECTION I: Barre exercise
11:35 Demi-plié
12:48 Battement tendu
15:23 Battement tendu jeté
16:03 Battement tendu soutenu
16:55 Rond de jambe
19:00 Petit battement sur le cou-de-pied
20:05 Battement frappé
21:51 Double battement frappé
23:31 Battement fondu
25:40 Battement relevé lent
25:25 Bolshoi battement
28:47 Grand plié
31:09 Développé
35:06 Rond de jambe en l'air
36:44 Cambré
37:47 Port de corps
40:19 SECTION II: Adagio
40:49 Poses of the body: en face, attitudes, arabesques, écarté
46:39 Turns
48:52 Pirouette
52:36 Posed pirouette or "Bolshoi pirouette"
54:01 Fouetté
58:56 SECTION III: Pointe
59:22 Movements performed while in relevé en pointe
01:03:19 Movements performed while rising en pointe
01:07:30 Jumps while en pointe
01:08:34 Turns en pointe
01:14:44 SECTION IV: Allegro
01:15:10 Sauté (jumps from two feet)
01:17:10 Assemblé (jumps from one foot to two)
01:18:07 Auxiliary steps (glissade, chassé, pas de bourrée, passé)
01:20:34 Jeté (jumps from one foot to the other)
01:27:53 Sissonne (jumps from two feet to one)
01:33:13 Temps levé (jumps from one foot to the same foot)
01:37:10 SECTION V: Batterie
01:37:37 Entrechat
01:39:02 Pas battu
01:42:22 Tours en l'air
01:44:54 Demonstration by Asaf Messerer (Асаф Мессерер)

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@CDdeodata 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely marvelous film with all the details of the basic VAganova Method - the best in the world for forming ballet artists. A big thank you for sharing.

@seaofglass77 8 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you, I love ballet and the Vaganova method so much. This was a pure joy. Saving to watch over and over.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@LolaMahasin 6 ай бұрын

This is so lovely ❤❤❤

@BaroneVitellioScarpia1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this gem!

@gulhankumran8226 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Absolutely faboulous!

@molebski 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@austrianballetschooltokyo932 11 ай бұрын

Our teacher Vladimir Tsukano was a student of Mr. Tarasov, who created with Mrs. Vaganova this video. A timeless treasure for our students and future generations.

@l.s.754 Жыл бұрын

This is a Masterpiece...

@trudischleifer7245 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely 😍

@demianmiranda4816 Жыл бұрын

Oh my god! Thank só much!

@freyjar5274 Жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much for uploading this, it is a great help to know the technique!! And when Assaf turns he remembers you so much Maya his niece

@danahanson5696 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting! This is an absolute treasure.

@galinagan8812 Жыл бұрын

Прекрасный фильм

@candidacarino669 Жыл бұрын

This is a quite memorable 💕 and beautiful presentation of Russia's Vaganova indeed. I had enjoyed it enormously - - watching the whole show. Thank you very much to @ Trrill for sharing.

@An_Gold Жыл бұрын

The best movie about ballet exercises, thank you.

@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын

This is fabulous for the inclusion of Asaf Messerer, the man who single-handedly began choreographing much more athletic parts for men, who from that point-at the Bolshoi-was constantly innovating for both men and women, including the famous move in “Manon,” when Sylvie Guillem jumps in her partner’s arms and does a double turn with her whole body in the air. I saw this recently in a Soviet film showing dancers from the Bolshoi entertaining wounded soldiers during World War II. He was an uncle of Maya Plisetskaya who, with his sister Sulamith, worked with her until she was admitted to the Bolshoi school, and later he trained the top dancers of the company, including his niece! I’ve no idea why he’s included here, because I thought he was only associated with the Bolshoi.

@trrill Жыл бұрын

Rather than a Kirov- or Bolshoi-specific scenario, this film is more of a showcase of the State's cultural method, applied across all schools via both Leningrad and Moscow, so Messerer isn't a Bolshoi outlier here. (You probably already know all this, but I'm writing for other viewers...) Nikolai Tarasov, who collaborated with Vaganova on this film, graduated from the Moscow school, was a Bolshoi dancer and later director of/teacher at the school. Lepeshinskaya, Fayer, and Rafailova were also Bolshoi associated. Kamkova and Tyuntina were students of Vaganova herself, and both were later teachers at the Leningrad school.

@1psoas9 2 ай бұрын

I'm puzzled. My Russian is not good, but I can read the nanme of Messerer in the credits of the film, and Messerer's version of Vaganova is not the St Petersburg version but that of Moscow, hte Bolshoi style-- and his niece, the great Maya Plisetskaya was one of its great exemplars and quite different from the Kirov/Maryinsky ballerina. There are many many nuances of difference, and much cross-over, ever since Semyonova [Vaganova's firtws great "product" -- I mean that in the nicest possible way, the beneficiary of Vaganova's understanding of co-ordination and how to build on a foundation]] became a Bolshoi ballerina-- and then Ulanova, also schooled in Leningrad, also became the luminary of the Bolshoi. I'll just mention the difference between the Bolshoi "tulip" hands, with extended fingers, and the Franco-Russian hands of the Vaganova style, wherein the fingers gently curve inwards. Perhaps that's more a difference of style than technique. Where does his class fall on the spectrum of the developing Soviet style?

@trrill 2 ай бұрын

I think of Messerer as a bridge that allowed Russian ballet to establish its own living voice, not completely cut off from tradition but not weighed down by it-purity in style but with a strong leaning toward naturalness and realism. Messerer explains in his book that in addition to studying Vaganova's book (as well as the methods of some 14 others), he actually traveled to Leningrad fairly early in his teaching career (mid-1920s?) to observe how she taught class and to glean as much wisdom from her as possible. Messerer was a voracious learner and observer and did this with practically every other great teacher and even STUDENTS of other great teachers. So certainly there's a continuity and coherence, the local/temporal stylistic differences notwithstanding. In any case Plisetskaya herself said, "What Vaganova did for the women's classes Messerer did for the men's classes, teaching faultlessly, precisely, always with the highest professionalism, the classical dance." That's no small thing!

@kathleenshoop Жыл бұрын

Is there anywhere to see an English translation of the narration? Beautiful footage!

@ameladj66 Жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that the girl at 25:17 grew up to be a famous Russian ballerina. Does anyone know who she is?

@juanjosefarina Жыл бұрын

She looks a bit like Irina Kolpakova, and she would have been 12 at that time, so maybe. I know this film was made with cooperation between Leningrad and Moscow schools, so students of both schools are in it.

@user-ui7zj4jf5q 3 ай бұрын

@@juanjosefarina Irina Kolpakova looked differently in her childhood

@iskander21024 Жыл бұрын

1946 год Через год после окончания Великой и страшной войны. Это - СССР!

@juliancochran Жыл бұрын

I congratulate your brave and noble ancestors for protecting your past USSR from the fascist invaders. The world would be completely different if it was not for all your heros. Thank you secondly for all what you contributed in the arts all through the 20th C and to continue your wonderful (prekrastnaya) cultural momentum.

@iskander21024 Жыл бұрын

@@juliancochran My deepest gratitude for your comment/