Sleeping Beauty 1, 3 Aurora Act 1 entrance Fonteyn, Sizova, Gregory, Semizorova, Dupont, Vishneva
Act 1 Aurora entrance and Rose Adagio solo bits. Five dancers (Brit, American, French and Russians) from five major ballet companies doing the classics, one per decade. A brief insight into the aesthetics of bygone days and artistry of ballerinas (well, only some of them are ballerinas IMO, and Vishneva is still dancing, but let s not split As a consequence of the one per company and one per decade restriction I had to leave out Irina Kolpakova :( but I m going to do a separate montage only with Kirov dancers. The last footage 2015 ABT is the notated version (the reference choreo, at least for the lower body). 1955 Margot Fonteyn (RB) the BW footage is from the 1955 broadcast, the color footage from the Magic of Dance 1964 Alla Sizova (Kirov) production 1979 Cynthia Gregory (ABT) production+Russian i
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