judith booth
Here I will look at men in dance and male dancers and their history and roles.
MEN DANCING - I am an avid ballet-goer and watcher -- but I am somewhat unique in that I do not pick my dance occasions based on the ballerina but rather on who is dancing the male(s) role(s). This has been so for a long time and the realization of it crystallized for me quite recently.
Today there are many fine roles and variations that cater to men, But in the long ago and far away men were considered props to hold up the ballerina. In the time of August Vestris men were technically quite good. However in Petipas' time the ballerina became more important. Just look at the roles -- Swan Lake (1895) and Sleeping Beauty (1890) Petipa emphasized the girl whereas in Sylphide (1832) and Giselle (1841) there were good male roles. Given all these changes, in most classical ballets males roles are tiny (50 sec of solo out of a 2 hour ballet), and that needs to change.
October 25, 2020
RSB 1984 Giselle Renvall Tcherkassky
Kirov
POB Defile 1993 -- Hilaire, Legris, Le Riche, Maurin, Guerin Etc....
Jeremie Belingard Lac des cygnes pas de trois
Lady of the Camelias Male Solo 5 Liska Bullion Ovcharenko Rademaker Lantratov
Etudes composed by Knudåge Riisager chor Harald Lander
Jeune homme et la mort Yann Bridard Marie Claude Pietragalla
Proust Remembered 1985 Roland Petit
Ghislaine Thesmar Portrait Etoile
POB Manon 1990 Legri Loudieres Belarbi
POB 1991 Midsummer Night Dream cho Neumeier Dupont Bart Belingard COMP
Patrick Dupond Saint Loup Jean Charles Gil Morel ou le combat des Anges chor Roland Petit
Manon 2003
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Fernando Bujones in Class
Balcony Scene Romeo and Juliet Petra Conti and Mick Zeni cho MacMillian 2010
Elisabeth Platel in Raymonda 1999
1977 Peasant pas de deux Giselle Kirk Peterson and Marianne Tcherkassky
Giselle Peasant Pas de Deux - 2006 - Emmanuel Thibault and Mirian Oulde-Barham
Herve Moreau Elenora Abbegnato Meditation from Thais 2012
1978 - The Dream - Anthony Dowell and Merle Park Choreo Frederick Ashton
Spectre de la Rose Claudio Coviello and Lusymay Di Stefano BITS
Le Spectre de la Rose - Danced by Luciana Barirrero and Daniel Proietto
Répétition Orphée et Eurydice Yann Bridard Marie-Agnes Gillot 2011
1991 Tetsuya Kumakawa Bronze Idol
Giselle 2012 Hikaru Kobayashu and Federico Bonelli