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Good Swan Bad Swan.....One of the finest documentaries I've seen. Synthesizing dance, music and psychoanalysis to create a work of art.

For sure, he’s a young man struggling with quite a few demons but I feel that the music that accompanied this piece on Segei gave it an extra measure of bleakness.

For me Olga is quite like no other ballerina I’ve seen, although she has qualities peculiar to some of my favourite. My experience of watching her is not unlike my experience of watching Gelsey Kirkland at her finest which I can only describe as transcendental. Smirnova’s sharp jaw line and startling eyes give her a wild and otherworldly appearance that I find mesmerising especially in Swan Lake where she seems to capture the essence of the fated and desperate Odette. For me however, it was her perceptive understanding of the ‘Diamonds’ pas de deux (and her dedication to the coaching process) that really brought her to my attention. I had waited years (decades?) to see it danced with such revere. Thank you Olga.

Indeed it isn't easy, but getting the group to work as a team was a terrific solution.

I've had fairly rotten luck lately with tickets an cancellations...but the gods must have been on my side when I booked those tickets for THE 5th Joy of joys!

Indeed...and that arabesque... the purity of line and the ability to fly. Even when he delights with multiple tours en l’air it never comes across as a circus trick.

Gracious me! I really don’t know what else to say at the moment... Remarkably, I’ve tickets for that performance on the 5th. I think I’m starting a grief process!!

Yes I was also saddened and indeed puzzled by the comments. On one side of the stage you have his “comments” and on the other, a young artist whose performances (for me) are deeply sincere and show a deep respect for his craft. A schism perhaps

Thanks for the welcome Janet. The first post in a forum has all the elements of opening night nerves :-)

I'd always thought that Diaghilev had used it as an expletive before a Ballet Russe performance ( possibly Rite of Spring) and that it had been adopted by dancers after that.