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John Clifford
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A channel devoted to works of myself, George Balanchine, and associates.
COPPELIA Act III NYCB 1978
Every time I watch this I get a pang in my heart. Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova, who staged this version, had originally started choreographing this on me and Gelsey Kirkland. Danilova had been the most celebrated "Swanilda" (the female lead) of her time, and she was setting all her parts. Balanchine was choreographing new variations for my role, "Franz" and new divertissements. Unfortunately (and I'm still kicking myself), both Gelsey and I decided to leave the company a month into rehearsals. She, to dance with Baryshnikov, and me, to spend full time with my newly created Los Angeles Ballet. I certainly could have waited a year because I had just turned 27. Balanchine was also start...
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Finale of EL SALON MEXICO (Music; Copland / Choreo. Clifford)
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Some scores are really difficult, this El Salon Mexico is one of them. But...just look at how the dancers are keeping up! You'd think they were a company that had been together for years instead of just a couple weeks, and put together by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux for his summer seasons at the Chautauqua Institute. This section starts right after the Pas de Trois I just posted, and goes to the end ...
MOZARTIANA (Tchaikovsky / Balanchine
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One of George Balanchine's last masterpieces; choreographed in 1981 when he was 77 years old and already in ill health, MOZARTIANA (Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite #4), was made as part of the NYC Ballet's 1981 Tchaikovsky Festival. This 1983 performance was filmed shortly after his death in April, and in my opinion is one of the greatest live performance films of his ballets. The three leads, S...
Except from BALANCHINE’S PROTÉGÉ: JOHN CLIFFORD
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“I first met Amiruddin two years ago when he came to LA to study with me for a few weeks after graduating from the school of the Royal Ballet. He wanted to get some Balanchine attack and speed to broaden his training. Since then we’ve worked on several short films he’s developed, including a documentary he wanted to do on me. This little excerpt from my Oberon in my A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM wa...
MARIA TALLCHIEF TV Appearances
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America's first Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Maria Tallchief, was a Native American (Osage Nation), and George Balanchine's 3rd wife. She was known internationally as one of the greatest ballerinas of her era, and was largely responsible for the success of the New York City Ballet during its formation (1948) and early years, through the mid 1960's. Her performances in ballets Balanchine made for h...
Titania - Bottom Pas de Deux (choreo: John Clifford)
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Here's a 2018 Matinee children's performance of the Titania / Bottom Pas de Deux from my A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM I made for The Portland Ballet in 2011. They've revived this ballet every year or so, and watching the different casts is always a joy. This cast was Melanie Labs and Josh Murry
Suzanne Farrell and Sean Lavery ‘Chaconne' Chore George Balanchine
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I actually prefer this live performance with Sean Lavery to the PBS broadcast one of CHACONNE. Farrell looks stronger and sharper here, and takes more chances, and Sean doesn’t copy any of Martins mannerisms so I can really “see the music,” as Balanchine liked to say. For some reason in the Martins performance the steps don’t seem to fit the music as well as they do here. I think this might be ...
APOLLO New York City Ballet
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A wonderful performance from 1965 with a young Suzanne Farrell, Gloria Govrin, Patricia Neary, and an already seasoned Jacques d'Amboise in one of Balanchine's earliest masterpieces.
BLACK TIGHTS (film w/ Zizi Jeanmaire and Cyd Charisse)
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A very unusual film in that it has four complete ballets by Roland Petit. Two feature his wife, the incredible Zizi Jeanmaire, and one with Cyd Charisse, and the other starring Moira Shearer. Narrated by Maurice Chevalier. It's a wonderful snapshot into Petit's very specific French style, but also these three ballerinas in the twilight of their dancing careers.
CORTEGE HONGROIS (Finale excerpts- 1973)
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Myself and Melissa Hayden in silent excerpts from Balanchine’s going away present for his senior NYC Ballet ballerina, on the occasion of her retirement from the company.
CORTEGE HONGROIS (excerpts / Balanchine / 1973)
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Me with the great Melissa Hayden, who the NY TIMES critic, Clive Barnes, once called “America’s Prima Ballerina Assoluta,” in some silent excerpts of CORTEGE HONGROIS. A couple clips in the Pas are from that 1st Matinee when I barely had learned the choreography (I can tell because I’m wearing my corps costume from DIAMONDS before they made me my own costume), and some are from a later show. Th...
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Coda and Finale)
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Just the end of the coda with Ellen Bauer and the 17 yr-old Damian Woetzel, and Finale of John Taras’s staging of SLEEPING BEAUTY ACT III (1984) and the last performances of my Los Angeles Ballet. I really liked John’s staging because it moved so much and he kept the tempo brisk. So often I’ve seen this ballet so slow it loses all its fun and excitement. The venue was the John Anson Ford Amphit...
CHACONNE (Farrell, Lavery - 1983)
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From a PBS 1983 broadcast, here is Suzanne Farrell and Sean Lavery, in top form. This was the year Balanchine died, but I'm not sure if this was filmed before, or after his death. In any case, it's a wonderful live performance testament to his choreography, and also his training.
La Valse Lights
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When I was learning my craft (remember Balanchine brought me to NYC at 19 as a choreographer first), he wanted me to watch every performance. “Watch and learn,” he said. He also sat with me lighting my 8 ballets for the company, so I learned firsthand how crucial lighting was to him. In LA VALSE this Is tremendously important. Here are two sections where the lights are everything. The first is ...
JIVE Pas and FINALE from GO PHISH (Ch: John Clifford
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JIVE Pas and FINALE from GO PHISH (Ch: John Clifford
NUTCRACKER (Battle Scene - 1995 Ballet Arizona/Clifford)
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NUTCRACKER (Battle Scene - 1995 Ballet Arizona/Clifford)
NUTCRACKER GRAND PAS DE DEUX “Adagio” (Tchaikovsky / Clifford
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NUTCRACKER GRAND PAS DE DEUX “Adagio” (Tchaikovsky / Clifford
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Divertissement (Clifford)
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Divertissement (Clifford)
SQUARE DANCE (Pas de Deux) Vivaldi/Balanchine
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SQUARE DANCE (Pas de Deux) Vivaldi/Balanchine
BALLET IMPERIAL (excerpts w/ Violette Verdy and Conrad Ludlow)
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BALLET IMPERIAL (excerpts w/ Violette Verdy and Conrad Ludlow)
“Tango” CASABLANCA Musical (Ch: John Clifford
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“Tango” CASABLANCA Musical (Ch: John Clifford
Western Symphony (Balanchine 1990)
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Western Symphony (Balanchine 1990)
EMERALDS (2006 - Pacific Northwest Ballet)
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EMERALDS (2006 - Pacific Northwest Ballet)
Alexandra Ansanelli HARLEQINADE Pas de deux
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Alexandra Ansanelli HARLEQINADE Pas de deux
AGON Man's Variation (NYCB and NYCB)
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AGON Man's Variation (NYCB and NYCB)
Есть леситация! А советские балерины крутили фуэте, не сходя с почтовой марки!
This is a theatrical (non-academic) event: technically unorthodox at key moments. There's a particularly nameless move between princes at the outset. Thereafter Fonteyn drops decisively into her pirouette preparations, 'loading' her leading arm, without ceremony. Her triple turns dispatch in the same amount of time as her doubles. Her exact repetitions allow attention to be drawn to the ensemble. All the stage players have specific timings and stage draughtsmanship. There's a no-fuss dynamic progression. Fonteyn believed her motion should appear to 'cause' the music - here's the example.
Magistral!! Una joya❤
What a wonderful performance!
Hi!! Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. Who is the superstar soloist in yellow?
When can't hear the music but upu can see it. This needs to be watched in every ballet school. P.E.R.I.O.D.T. 🤌🏻
Wow. that is all.
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@jcliff26 Can you show part 1 & 2?
What year did Farrell and Lavery dance this?
Thanks for all you do for dance art 😊
Intriguing, it must be very hard to turn Ives' music in a ballet, but it worked out, Balanchine must have had a very good musical insight. A beautiful document as well, thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you!!!! What a wonderful time in American ballet. Balanchine and Merrill Ashley a meeting of two great artists.
It's a poem!!! Thanks for sharing. From Rio de Janeiro - Brasil❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks , I knew her as a great teacher and never saw her dancing
Wow. Her musicality is perfection. She somehow turns this score in to something American. Stunning.
Gorgeous choreography & performance ❤👏🏼
Is that Arthur Mitchell in the duet? Whom is he dancing with?
Brava!
Thank you for sharing
Beautiful, romantic ballet and gorgeous and colourful costumes ❤! Thank you for sharing @ John Clifford.
Eri insegnante nella scala quando era anziana❤. Ma perché sei morta che guaio da Napoli venivo fino alla scala spero che siete andata in paradiso, una signorina così delicata, anche da anziana va di sicuro in paradiso ❤mi si spezza il cuore per la vostra morte 💔 amen
Carla Fracci ❤
Por si no saben ahi alicia tenia 49 años y estaba practicamente ciega 😳 osea el nivel de talento de esta mujer era infinitamente magistral
This is simply wonderful. Thank you so much for posting.
This is from Germain Z D F T V München.Sttattsballet. in fact he just take the wonderfull chorégraphie from Peter Wright when Seymour was the boss.she did not last long wonderfull artiste that she was but not at all a boss for a ballet like München. intérieur intégrées. I know as my friend was at that time the boss for the germain T.V. Edward Arckless and I have a wonderfull record of him also in München Spectre de la Rosé a catastrophe he did not know the chorégraph at all.some day I will give this out.Edward Arckless ex Royal Oper Ballet Covent Garden London and conservatoire de Ville de Paris France.
❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏I loved it so much 💐🕺🏼
Mr. Clifford, imho you should be given some sort of formal award for your contributions to ballet in the USA-- for your good offices in posting so much on RUclips that gives so much pleasure-- and enlightenment-- to so many people
Когда она вращается, глаз переходит от прекрасного лица к обольстительному заду и обратно. Балетное мастерство подчинено у Плисецкой в ее ролях искусству обольщения. У большинства других балерин на первом месте школа, выучка, но не провокация.
@John Clifford, I'm sorry to hear that your story with this ballet didn't come to fruition. But that's life, we choose our paths and open new perspectives. Thank you for the video.
Kay Mazzo!!!
Can you identify the other soloists?
Cast list is at 37:11
With the years passing…I,know realize that PATRICIA McBRIDE….was much better then SUSANNE FARELL….
Both were wonderful and very very different. Both were too wonderful and too different to be compared and graded.
What year is this? Many thanks, Mr. Clifford!
Любимая балерина ❤❤❤❤
Judy Garland would approve of his SOTR cover.
Incredible. Thank you, Mr. Clifford. Please name all the dancers?
Phenomenal orchestra and conductor ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The best for all times❤❤❤❤❤
breathtaking
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She’s all legs!
W So wonderful, Mr. Clifford! What year?
This is just fantastic🎉
Thank You, John!!!
What a beautiful filming! Thank you Mr. Clifford. Who are the dancers in the past de deux? What year?
I know Mr. B. did not particularly like the German films of his ballets, but I think this one is very beautiful. The lighting emphasizes the spirituality of the piece especially. Surprised that Mazzo did not "let down her hair." I wonder when that touch was added.
Who are these original dancers? Can’t tell from the filming. Thank you Mr. Clifford!
Atriz e bailarina juntas na mesma pessoa.... Tão perfeita interpretação, que me faz derramar lágrimas de emoção ❤
What year was this?