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Important new Cecchetti Diploma DVD / Bluray


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I hope I may be forgiven for posting this separately from the new dvd list as this is a rather different kind of production (I heard that copies have already turned up in the shop, can anyone confirm?)---

 

https://shop.roh.org.uk/products/the-enrico-cecchetti-diploma-dvd-bluray

 

Given the importance some of us place on Cecchetti, this significant record of what was taught at White Lodge for decades is very welcome. Hope those with specialist knowledge will post about it; I for one would like to know more. 

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its iThe DVD seems to contain the best part of four hours of film. It looks fascinating, if expensive. I hope that it is more successful than the enterprise which Julie Cronshaw and Katherine Kanter were engaged in some years ago which involved funding and filming the Cecchetti Method in use with Muriel Valtat demonstrating its application. That enterprise was referred to on the Auguste Vestris Society website in 2014. The idea was that the filmed material would eventually end up on the website which Cronshaw runs. So far the film of Valtat does not seem to have made it to the website. Perhaps they are still looking for funding. By the way Cronshaw has some interesting short essays on her website and a six minute video which includes snippets of some of the great and the good of early twentieth century classical ballet including Pavlova, Karsavina, Markova and Ashton all showing what the training enabled them to do.

 

I hope that this DVD rekindles interest in the Cecchetti Method if only because of its importance .The dancers involved in it are something of a bonus. I fear that even with endorsements by both Bintley and O'Hare that it may seem too remote from what are perceived to be  the needs of today's dancers to have much effect. But who knows? I thought some time ago that there was talk of Cecchetti classes being reintroduced at the RBS. I wonder what happened to that initiative?According to Sibley during her time at the RBS only one day a week was devoted to Cecchetti.

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My DD has moved to a Cecchetti school and it seems very different from BBO and RAD.

Can anyone explain (briefly) the importance of this method historically and also what you experienced ballet observers would notice that was different in a performer trained that way?

Many thanks.

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I have worked on Japanese subtitles for this DVD and indeed this is a jewel, it should be a joy for not only students but people who enjoy watching ballet.

The students are James Hay, Chisato Katsura, Romany Pajdak Ruth Brill, Laura Day, Brandon Lawrence, Lachlan Monaghan and they show their virtuoso technique here which is a joy to watch. Cecchetti is focused on elauplement and the upper body strength, speed and the clarity of the steps and I had the impression that this method would be essential especially if you are learning to dance Aston. 

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Thanks for this Geoff.

It would  be on this year's Christmas present list for me, but for the fact that I am likely to be tempted before then. Some lovely dancers are involved, and  I am hoping it will give me a better  understanding and appreciation of what I am seeing at rehearsals and live performances!

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