Originally Posted by Cadiva:
“I can't put it in words to be honest, it's totally an emotional thing for me. The most technically brilliant executor of a dance could be performing but if I can't connect with them it won't mean a thing.
I've been lucky during my career as a journalist to see most of the big name dancers on stage from ballet, tap, contemporary etc as well as having an extensive collection of musical films full of great dancers.
I think if I had to pin down my favourite dancers of all time it would be Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.
My favourite ballet dancers would probably be Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, only just edging out Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev who I was so very very lucky to see as a young girl in one of her final performances at Covent Garden in the late 1970s on a school trip. Even at the end of her career I was utterly captivated by her on stage.
I would have killed to have seen Maya Plisetskaya dance live and I also rate some of the dancers at Northern Ballet Theatre, as it was in the late 80s/1990s, among the best dramatic artists I've seen.
Jayne Regan as Mina in the 1996 premier of Dracula alongside Denis Malinkine. (This is some black & white footage but not from the prem). I've never been as blown away by a ballet production in my life as I was for that, directed by Chris Gable with choreography/direction by Michael Pink, set design by Lez Brotherston and a score from Philip Feeney, it was so good I paid to go back and see it again two days after the Press Premiere
I also loved watching Joseph Cipolla and Miyako Yoshida at Birmingham Royal Ballet and the O'Hare brothers at the same company.
Honestly I could go on for hours about the amazing dancers I've seen over the years
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“I can't put it in words to be honest, it's totally an emotional thing for me. The most technically brilliant executor of a dance could be performing but if I can't connect with them it won't mean a thing.
I've been lucky during my career as a journalist to see most of the big name dancers on stage from ballet, tap, contemporary etc as well as having an extensive collection of musical films full of great dancers.
I think if I had to pin down my favourite dancers of all time it would be Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.
My favourite ballet dancers would probably be Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, only just edging out Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev who I was so very very lucky to see as a young girl in one of her final performances at Covent Garden in the late 1970s on a school trip. Even at the end of her career I was utterly captivated by her on stage.
I would have killed to have seen Maya Plisetskaya dance live and I also rate some of the dancers at Northern Ballet Theatre, as it was in the late 80s/1990s, among the best dramatic artists I've seen.
Jayne Regan as Mina in the 1996 premier of Dracula alongside Denis Malinkine. (This is some black & white footage but not from the prem). I've never been as blown away by a ballet production in my life as I was for that, directed by Chris Gable with choreography/direction by Michael Pink, set design by Lez Brotherston and a score from Philip Feeney, it was so good I paid to go back and see it again two days after the Press Premiere
I also loved watching Joseph Cipolla and Miyako Yoshida at Birmingham Royal Ballet and the O'Hare brothers at the same company.
Honestly I could go on for hours about the amazing dancers I've seen over the years
”
Lucky lucky you and thanks for that great clip ( falls a little bit more in love with you tube every day all these wonderful treasures so easy to access)
I saw Rudolf and Margot I beleive I was still at primary school , already addicted to ballet and was more determined than ever to be a prima ballerina. Both entranced me.
Lack of talent, short stature and big boobs did for me. I was a good dancer but would never have been a great one, I was missing something when I dance.
I was a very nervous shy child and teenage and wonder if I ever had it in me to just let go and get lost in the dance. I so admire those dancers on SCD who are able to do so.
I felt DOD had a few more weeks in him but he was very nervous and self conscious dancing. I think this is what meant people didn't care enough about him to vote ,despite actually finding him a very charming man.
, shaking his hips, the handstands at the end
