Sheila Beelam Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Found this on my Facebook feed - fascinating 3 minutes of a Russian ballet class in 1946. Shame there are no subtitles, but I was just amazed at the 180 degree turnout! https://www.facebook.com/BolshoiAcademy/posts/10203213958415298 I wonder what happened to those little dancers...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I used to have turnout like that. *weeps* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Yes they are gorgeous. But you have to remember they are the very select few, selected from all over the USSR (as it was in those days). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomin Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 It's interesting to see some of their feet, not the popular look of today! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfbrew Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I used to have turnout like that. *weeps* I never did. Weeps even more... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 There's great uniformity in height and build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The didn't articulate their feet much back then did they? Or is that a Russian thing generally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Those practice skirts are interesting - very different from the film "Children of Theatre Street." One time as they turn to the other side it a set turn - the next time it is not. In the slow tendue there is some articulation but they lose it in the faster set. The arches are not particularly high. Even the haircuts look the same. It is a credit to Russia that this class existed keeping in mind what Russia had suffered by 1946. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdance Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Interesting that the "180 degree turnout" isn't actually 180 degrees apart from at the feet. A lot of the time those girls' knees were not facing the sides, but more diagonally forward/sideways apart from in 2nd where it's easier to turn out the knees in plie, and in tendu the girl who had the close up did have very turned out tendus. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaffa Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 The Bolshoi Academy's video library has a link to the complete video (almost 2 hours). Bolshoi Academy's video library (with some other interesting links): http://balletacademy.ru/biblio/video/ The YouTube video: Yaffa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Thanks Yaffa - look forward to seeing all of it. So far have just got as far as fondus (about 25 mins in). One thing I have noticed is how they are working on a low 1/4 pointe at times rather than the higher 1/2 or 3/4 pointe usually seen today. Perhaps it is a training stage and they go up higher when older. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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