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It's amazing what goes into making something effortless.
"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."
Documentary directed by Françoise Ha Van Kern about Paris Ópera former danseuse étoile and ballet super star Sylvie Guillem. A retrospective from her work in the classical ballet and her approach to contemporary works including the bien connu “Eonnagata” A collaboration between Guillem with Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant.
Wonderful dance footage. In French, Spanish subtitles.
"Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of a dancer."
Sylvie Guillem
(Source: theballetblog)
Je pense que je vais etre un tannante: Sylvie Guillem - Envy and the unfairness of life
When I arrived in Paris Opera,’ she says, ‘I was just doing my best but I was very aware of the pain that I was creating. I would hear parents say, you know, “Why can’t you be as good as Sylvie?” It was wrong.” This situation was exacerbated by the uniquely sinewy physique she says she inherited from her grandfather…Not only did the girls want to dance like Sylvie they wanted her body.
“In Paris Opera we had two cases of people ending up in psychiatric hospitals because of eating problems, they were starving themselves. But it is not only ballet that is to blame: it is their life, their parents, whatever,’ she shrugs.
‘Thankfully I never had that problem. I could eat a choucroute (sour cabbage with sausage and salted meats), a cassoulet (bean stew with meats), and the girl next to me is eating half an apple. As a result no doubt she wants to strangle me even more. You have people in a company who are permanently frustrated. They are the problem. They will always think you are responsible for their unhappiness.”
Ballet and Football lover: Sylvie Guillem interview on Russian media (1/5)
Which of Russian dancers made the greatest impression on you?
“Maya Plisetskaya in the Fountain of Bakhchisarai. It was a passion. Genuine passion.”
What do you imagine the word “Russia” represents?
What do you imagine the word “Russia” represents?
Something far away, melancholy and mysterious… And my first impression of Russia was associated with childhood. I was involved in gymnastics and a candidate for the Olympic team in France. One day a Russian coach came into our sport school. It seems it was an exchange program. He was very harsh, and I realized that with this gymnastics coach for me I will cease to be happy. So when I was asked to go to Russia, I said, ‘No, no way! “
Sylvie Guillem’s foot
Sylvie Guillem, age 46 in Manon
(Source: theballetblog)
Grand Pas Classique variation
Sylvie Guillem & Elizabeth Platel
(Source: theballetblog)
Sylvie Guillem as a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School.
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Sylvie Guillem
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