Dorothee Gilbert Masterclass

Dorothee is one of those dancers that have such a solid basic technique, in this masterclass what she shows - whether a simple tendu, petit allegro, batterie, balance, turn-out - all done with a correct style, fluent, controlled and on the count. The result is breathtaking and shows ballet at it best.  

There’s no “In your face” physicality kind of thing here like when someone do 190° extension, jump really high, turn really fast, or making a pretzel attitude that makes you question whether they have backbone or not but if you look closely what she does here is extremely difficult. I have to say I like this better than the Isabelle’s one.

21 years old Heloise Bourdon in La Bayadere and Don Quixote

Because life’s not fair

Mathias Heymann in La Source, the role that won him 2012 Benois de la Danse for best male dancer (tied with Carsten Jung).

The amount of talent he has is mind-boggling O_o

I was planning to make this into gif but then decided that it is too amazing not to be seen in its entirety. This video is for male dancer in particular WATCH it boys, really you should.. Stephane Bullion in “Proust ou Les intermittences du coeur”, there are lots of petit batterie, pirouettes and jumps but what makes this variation difficult is that all of the steps must be done in rapid succession one after another.

POB dancers are known to have a very good footwork and here Bullion shows it at it best, his steps are crystal clear and very musical despite the speed of the movement, he also has beautiful ballon that made him seem to float in the air for sometime in certain parts.

I think this has became one of my favorite male variation now.

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Aurelie Dupont just defies belief. Here she is in the second movement of Bizet’s Symphony in C (otherwise known as A Crystal Palace), choreographed by Balanchine with the Paris Opera Ballet. She is such a beautiful, tasteful ballerina who is extraordinarily musical. Oh, and I’m in awe of Balanchine’s really interesting and beautiful choreography. So thankful for YouTube! :)

What I love most about her is although her technique is so rock solid she never oversell it, it’s there to serve the choreography not the other way around. Her movement also has that continuous quality that make her dancing so fluid, flowing and delicate, very lovely to watch.

It’s almost Christmas so watch this beautiful pdd of The Nutcracker by POB etoile Jeremie Belingard and Myriam Ould-Braham (her petite frame is very Clara-like for me). Tchaikovsky’s score is glorious and the dancing is very beautiful, tender and full of emotion.

Amazing is an understatement

Watch this wonderful video of Aurelie Dupont and Herve Moreau in this very fluently danced Tchaikovsky pdd and check out the coda where she did sextuple pirouettes with seemingly no preparation whatsoever, the audience reaction to that virtuoso feat was making indiscernible voices like they can’t believe what just happened and she just smiled like ‘oh you cute pets I know I’m awesome’.

Guys watch this! 19 years old Mathilde Froustey in Giselle at International Ballet Competition Varna - where she was later awarded Senior gold medal.

Her entrechats! Omg, I can’t stop looking at it.

It’s been a while since the last video rec but here it is! Agnes Letestu in Suite en Blanc “La Cigarette variation”

Femininity, chic, musicality, superb balance, flawless technique, beautiful extension.. All those you can find in this video of her.

This variation is very difficult but she danced it beautifully.

This is a video of Heloise Bourdon when she was still a student at Paris Opera Ballet school (very beautiful footwork here).

2000: Entered the POB School 
2007: Joined POB Corps de ballet at 16 years old 
2008: Promoted to Coryphée (Leading dancer in corps de ballet)
2009 - Current: Promoted to Sujet (Soloist)

And in 2012 she debuted in La Bayadere as Nikiya with positive response.

Paris Opera Ballet US Tour 2012

Giselle, Suite en Blance, Bolero and L’Arlésienne 

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Mathieu Ganio (POB) dancing a variation from La Sylphide - those opening cabrioles devant?! Pure awesome.

Very difficult variation and he nailed it! The applause at the end was well-deserved 

Sylvie Guillem in Don Quixote

This is for me the best Kitri variation, everything is beyond perfect, my favorite is definitely her Dulcinea variation and followed very closely by her wedding (fan) variation.

Her dancing is out of this world

My video rec today is 21 years old Aurelie Dupont as the second Shade in La Bayadere, she was still a Sujet (soloist) in this performance but she already has such an amazing technique.

Watch her hops on pointe! She basically covered the diagonal of the stage doing it and ending it with a long balance. 

Gosh I LOVE her.. ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡