IMPORTANT:
This DVD has been produced for Region 1 (US & Canada). You must
have a player which plays this region code to use this DVD.
The
Vaganova Ballet Academy
presents this DVD of a character dance class taught by one of the
leading dancers
in the Kirov
ballet company.
From Hungarian, Russian, and Spanish, to mid eastern, every style of
character
dance is covered. Presented in the same classroom Vaganova taught in,
several
students demonstrate all the movements to live piano accompaniment.
Fans and
dresses are used by the girls as part of the dances. There is no slow
break
down of these dances. They are all performed full out with no
explanation or
corrections. Fifteen difference dances are shown in all. This
DVD is not interactive but rather a video stream with no chapters.
This is a
graduation class, by Character Teacher Yelena Sherstnieva, soloist of
the Mariinsky Theater. It includes exercises at the barre such as Plie
in the Mazurka Style, Rond de Jambes par terre in Aragon's Jota style,
Adagio for women in Spanish style music, among others. For the center
it shows demonstrations of Hungarian, Spanish, Middle Eastern, Russian
Dances, Mazurkas from the most famous ballets such as Raymonda, Swan
Lake, Flames of Paris et al. Many times in a classical ballet
performance, some movements seem not to belong to classical ballet,
those are Character movements. We often see positions of the legs en
dedans or even a twisted foot which is perfectly allowed in
character
dance or movements en dedans
that end en dehors.
DVD, Approximately
36 minutes
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