4 | Uploaded on 13 April 2013 | 1 month ago
Plying from Nought to Nought
8 | Uploaded on 7 January 2013 | 4 months ago Sylvie Guillem & Laurent Hilaire, “In the Middle Somewhat Elevated”
2 | Uploaded on 23 September 2012 | 8 months ago Apropos of nothing, here’s a handy guide to the Act III pas de deux on YouTube. (I don’t generally like ‘story ballets’ but Sleeping Beauty is as good as it gets. A certain reality tv show peut aller se rhabiller.)
Aurélie Dupont & Manuel Legris, Paris Opera Ballet, 1999 (complete perfection)
Alina Cojocaru & Federico Bonelli, Royal Ballet, 2006
Marianela Nuñez & Thiago Soares, Royal Ballet, 2006(ish?)
Sofiane Sylve & Gael Lambiotte, Dutch National Ballet, 2003
Svetlana Zakharova & David Hallberg, Bolshoi, 2011
Diana Vishneva & Igor Zelensky, 1998
Sylvie Guillem & Jonathan Cope, Royal Ballet on tour, 1996
Margot Fonteyn & David Blair, Royal Ballet, 1963
Natalia Makarova & Mikahel Baryshnikov, 1981(?)
Alina Somova & Andrian Fadeyev, Maarinsky, 2006
Irina Kolpakova & Sergei Berezhnoi, Bolshoi, 1982
Ekaterina Osmolkina & Andrian Fadeyev, Maarinsky reconstruction
Svetlana Zakharova & Igor Zelensky, Maarinsky
Lyudmilla Semenyaka & Vyacheslav Gordeev, Bolshoi, 1988
Olesya Novikova & Andrew Merkurev, Maarinsky Reconstruction, 2006
Evgenia Obraztsova & Korsakov, Maarinsky Reconstruction
Larissa Lezhnina & Farukh Ruzimatov, Kirov
Maria Kochetkova & Konstantin Teliatnikov, Bolshoi
(still looking for the Viviana Durante & Zoltán Solymosi performance from Covent Garden)
3 | Uploaded on 6 July 2012 | 10 months ago Zenaida Yanowsky hamming it up and being generally wonderful
12 | Uploaded on 13 March 2012 | 1 year ago 
Parade, 1917. Musique d’Erik Satie, poème de Jean Cocteau, chorégraphie de Léonide Massine, décors et costumes de Pablo Picasso.
4 | Uploaded on 1 March 2012 | 1 year ago Appalachian Spring, 1944. Choreography by Martha Graham, music by Aaron Copland, set design by Isamu Noguchi.
Americana.
5 | Uploaded on 21 February 2012 | 1 year ago Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps (the music is still more shocking than the choreography)
4 | Uploaded on 18 December 2011 | 1 year ago Ekaterina Kondaurova dancing the shit out of l’Oiseau de feu (Fokine)
