cavycapers Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 (edited) I was watching some Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martin's performances recently, and it's so funny, his hair was so big and puffy that surely it must have had a dressing room all of its own, and then I was watching my favourite R and J the other night, with the divine Alessandra Ferri and Wayne Eagling, in which he has the hair of a 70's footballer, and it made me think that ballerinas through the decades look timeless, whereas the men are very much dated by their hair Edited March 19, 2016 by cavycapers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I agree. Wayne Eagling's Romeo hair was very much in the moment but just be glad he didn't have a real 70's footballer's 'Mullet'. How differently the story could have turned out. I don't think Juliet would have been quite so keen! I certainly wouldn't find that otherwise wonderful performance nearly so affecting. I find the same thing with ballet and theatre. The men's hairdo's down the decades are instantly of their time, whether laquered, bouffanted, gelled or shaggy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Yes, but Eagling's was naturally curly, so there wasn't an awful lot he could do about it. It's not as if he had a "footballer's perm". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 No, and at least it wasn't a wig. I loathe some of the wigs that dancers used to wear, for instance, that astonishing blonde bouffant thing worn by Dowell in the original performances of Month in the Country and Manon. Luckily most male principals these days stick to their own (though the syrup sported by one, now retired, dancer, in his last performance about 5 years ago, distracted me completely from his otherwise excellent performance). But for my all-time worst hair day, the award has to go to the 1989 production of Prince of the Pagodas. In the last act the men in the corps were given uniformly dreadful, reddish-bronzed wigs to go with their white and gold outfits. They looked like they were all wearing dead guinea pigs on their heads. if you don't believe me, take a look at the recording. Happy nightmares! Linda 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Yes, but Eagling's was naturally curly, so there wasn't an awful lot he could do about it. It's not as if he had a "footballer's perm". You're quite right about Eagling, were he dancing today he'd look exactly the same, but I can think of a couple of his contemporaries that did for a while have 'footballers perms' and I bet they came to regret it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I have one word: Tsiskaridze! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm365 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 In the 'horrible wigs' stakes, I think a high place should go to the corps wigs in Marguerite and Armand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 wish the ones with floppy, flouncey barnets, would get a decent haircut! Oh god - I've just turned into my dad!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I have one word: Tsiskaridze! Does he have an exceptionally luxuriant barnet or it just the way he coifs it? His hair is certainly quite a feature! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 A combination of the two, Jacqueline! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I have one word: Tsiskaridze! Strewth! I had to look at some photos, but his hair really does deserve a curtain call all on its own. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 A combination of the two, Jacqueline! Fancy having to share a bathroom with Nikolai! I prefer Wayne's wash'n'go shaggy do any day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavycapers Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 (edited) Tee hee hee, there's definitely all sorts going on in there! I can't quite make it out. Ponytails, sunglasses, hairbands? I worry for the ozone layer over St.Petersberg with that much hairspray about :0 Even though Wayne's hair was naturally curly, you would have no doubt from that performance of R and J that it was the early 80s; he would now be wearing it much shorter, a la Acosta. Edited March 20, 2016 by cavycapers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I have one word: Tsiskaridze! Why? In a company of men with an addiction to the peroxide bottle, at least his glossy mane is unadulterated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Talking of Acosta, I cannot remember him wearing any wigs, at least not in the performances I saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Nureyev's hair could be pretty wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 What about Faroukh Ruzimatov. Does anyone remember the glittery 'hairnet' he wore when he was doing Bayadere at the Coliseum in the 90s to attempt to control his very curly or permed hair? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavycapers Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 Can't see any pictures of that, but personally I've always liked a man in a glittery hairnet.... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Can't see any pictures of that, but personally I've always liked a man in a glittery hairnet.... Mmm, I find it depends what else they wear with it ! I can't find any pictures either but there are loads of Nureyev's dos over the years, from a tidy short back and sides in his youth to the more relaxed 60s styles, the bouffant years and so on. There are also some of him not wearing even so much as a hairnet,glittery or otherwise. I was shocked and appalled ! Moving along, I remember the Diaghilev tribute at the ROH in 2009. One of the pieces was Tamar, danced by Irma Nioradze and Ilya Kuznetsov. It was very strange, garishly costumed and seemed to consist mostly of Ilya constantly flicking his freshly washed hair. Annoying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavycapers Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) Oh my, I had to look for the aforementioned picture, obviously in the name of research, you understand. I too am shocked and appalled Although I think he might have needed two glittery hairnets Edited March 21, 2016 by cavycapers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yes, the search for Nureyev pictures on Google did throw up some eye popping results. In amongst the ones without the glittery hairnet(s) there are some showing him wearing a very unflattering blonde wig. On his head, that is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sybarite2015@ Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yes, Nureyev and his , ahem, ahem, ....I too was shocked that he posed for so many nude photos in his heyday! But why not? He was a beautiful specimen and, I guess, ballet dancers must be used to being nude a lot around other dancers? Well, he was 'blessed' to use Benie Mac's phrase!! He was one of my ballet heroes but after i read his mammoth biography by Julia Kavanagh, I think, I realised that as a person he had also a very selfish, petty, and unpleasant side. I'm not even gay but I'd turn 'gay for a day' for him!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTL Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I'm expanding this to "Male dancers and their fish". https://fishlove.co.uk/collections/gary-avis.html 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavycapers Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Gary! Noooooo! Wrong on so many levels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 If I remember correctly it was a "green" campaign about over-fishing or something. There were some ladies with fish too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 If I remember correctly it was a "green" campaign about over-fishing or something. There were some ladies with fish too! Yes, that's what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I think Gary's holding that fish the wrong way up! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Going back to hair - I remember when Darshan Singh Bhuller wore his hair below his shoulders and had it partially tied back. Paint it Black in Rooster .... OMG!!! I loved that hair style! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 If I remember correctly it was a "green" campaign about over-fishing or something. There were some ladies with fish too! Funny that - I barely noticed the fish. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coated Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Man, that image is going to change my Nutcrackers forever. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 I'm enjoying this thread & have to put in a special word for Vadim Muntagirov's hair. His hair is normally is a flowing extension of his dancing as in movement, it adds to the effect of graceful elegance in my opinion. But that's not all. His hair can Act ! As Albrecht is forced to continue dancing by Myrtha in Act II & comes dangerously close to death, Vadim's hair reflects that level of sheer exhaustion & despair by breaking free of its restraining hair products & forming desperate clumps of anguish. Then angles of wretchedness as dawn breaks & Albrecht faces life without Giselle. Kudos. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletfanp Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 ???? I might add that there is a special hashtag on Twitter, #Vadimhairwatch....! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Excellent - I shall look out for that, thank you. I knew there were admirers of Vadim's hair being 'floppy' but hadn't spotted that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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