Ballet & dancing. Be it classical, jazz or modern. Mostly ballet but also some other dancing-vids.
And yes, i like ballet. (mainly because my sister is a ballerina i guess, but i saw my first ballet when i was about 4: the nutcracker. i had loads of nightmares about the rats that fight the soldiers.
The Bolshoi Theater of Moscow performs the love scene of Act II, with the famous Adagio as background music. Features: Lyudmilla Semenyaka as Phrygia Irek Mukhamedov as Spartacus Choreography by Yuri... continue reading
posted by Fjnbk
1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 1,344 views"Pointe shoes generally last a maximum of eight hours, depending on the difficulty of the choreography, however some dancers can go through one pair of pointe shoes in a single performance." From: http://www.national.... continue reading
posted by lisacat 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,392 viewsFrom Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain comes this sultry, erotic contortionist act, exquisitely performed by one of the most beautiful physical performers, ukranian born Natalia Vasylyuk.
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(kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 6 months ago • 2,943 viewsWhich direction is the ballerina twirling? Counter-clockwise or clockwise? From "www.news.com.au": COUNTER-CLOCKWISE = LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language ... continue reading
posted by blankfist
1 decade 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 27,138 viewsGotan Project are a French/Argentine/Swiss band based in Paris that fuse Tango with modern dance music. The name is French slang (verlan) for 'Tango'. The trio had a huge international hit with their début... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 2,797 views • 3:34This is from a Dutch tv program, but Meg speaks in english, and the pieces you see from her performance need no words. I am going to try a series of clips of awesome contemporary (european) performance... continue reading
posted by lavoll
1 decade 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 2,694 views • 2:45The Pilobolus Dance Theater's magical shadow-dancing. Music: "Chocolate Lovely" by Amon Tobin
posted by plastiquemonkey 1 decade 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 10,583 viewsDuration 2 min 18 seconds The Guardian has started a series of articles on choreographers starting with Merce Cunningham who I had not heard of til today despite an interest in modern dance. This clip... continue reading
posted by Deano
1 decade 6 years 5 months ago • 1,357 viewsThe style of dance matches the music so well it's uncanny. Via Vestal Design blog.
posted by fissionchips 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,297 viewsan excerpt from "ten duets on a theme of resuce" choreographed by crystal pite, performed by Cedar Lake Dance. CLD is the best thing to come out of the Wal-Mart empire. the company was founded by Nancy... continue reading
posted by youmakekittymad
1 decade 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 2,030 viewsThis is Pina Bausch's Wuppertal Tanztheater performing the final part -Sacrificial Dance- of the Rite of Spring.
posted by dystopianfuturetoday 1 decade 7 years ago • 2,779 viewsAn extract from Canadian contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps' 2002 dance 'Amelia.' The group have previously collaborated with the likes of David Bowie, Skinny Puppy and Frank Zappa. On Amelia,... continue reading
posted by LePierre 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 6,883 viewsFrom YT: Part 1 of "The Farewell" of Kenneth Macmillan's "Song of the Earth" taken from Darcey Bussell's farewell performance at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden on 8 June 2007.
posted by Deano 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,973 views 1 decade 8 years 4 months ago • 2,006 viewsDuration 1 minute 26 seconds. My fellow sifters. Apparently there are no clips of the late Rudolf Nureyev on Videosift. Even if you don't like ballet check out the man's athleticism, poise, power... continue reading
posted by Deano 1 decade 6 years 5 months ago • 1,803 viewsBallet is normally not my thing, but what this guy does with a ladder must be seen to be believed.
posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 6 years 6 months ago • 1,787 viewsThis might be NSFW if you live in Paris in 1913. When this ballet first premiered, the violence and lasciviousness that it depicted caused rioting. See what you think of the entrance of the dancers. Whoa. ... continue reading
posted by djsunkid 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 6,092 viewsFounded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti, LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE... continue reading
posted by lisacat 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,008 viewsBallet from La Gioconda, Act 3, performed at the Liceu in Barcelona. I love this dance so much.
posted by Fjnbk 1 decade 6 years 4 months ago • 2,277 views"la petite mort" (the little death) is a French euphemism for orgasm. this modern ballet piece was choreographed by Jiri Kylian in 1991 for the second centenary of Mozart's death as a tribute to human... continue reading
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