DVD/Videos: Dying Swan

[Guest onpointe23]

Okay that sounds really good, thank you!!

[Dance_Scholar_London]

There was a thread a while ago... a girl requesting info about the dying swan as she was going to perform it. I dont remember her name but I am sure the moderators will.

[mohnurka]

Here's the thread -- here.

[Guest onpointe23]

Thank you mohnurka! You are so helpful!

[mohnurka]

No problem. Glad to help .

[ABT Wannabe]

I am in love with this solo. I found a place where you can listen to 60 seconds of it!!

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=samples#disc_1

 

 

Listen to the swan one.

 

Enjoy!!!

[ABT Wannabe]

This is the piece that was choreographed for Anna Pavlova and was in carnival of the animals and makes people cry because it's so beautiful, right?

[Guest sarabesque]

I saw a partial clip of what I thought was Pavlova doing dying swan- it was a a video called liek the Best of the Kirov or Greatest Kirov or something... I will look in my dance teacher's libaary if I get a chance and find out the real name. I'm pretty sure the back of the video case said it was Pavlova.

[Mel Johnson]

There are bits and pieces of film showing Pavlova dancing the Swan. The problem is that it was shot on cellulose nitrate film, which deteriorated, so what we have is fragmentary. Also, the film was shot at about 14 frames per second, which is much slower than the modern 26 fps. A lot has to be filled in by the imagination.

[Guest sarabesque]

Oh. I think that's why it was so jerky- I thought she might have just been trying to be really melodramatic

[Mel Johnson]

Oddly enough, the technique for trying to fill in the missing frames from the surviving film were developed by the same animation studios in Japan that produce anime. I think it gets it right sometimes, and sometimes not. The one thing you have to notice about Pavlova in whatever surviving film there is of her, and there is only a little more than you'd think, that she wasn't this delicate little thing. She may have been somewhat thin, but "strong like bool!" Truly amazing, from whatever angle she is found.