When one envisions a ballerina, a lovely, ethereal creature comes to mind; one who skims across the floor with delicacy and grace......whose every movement is soft, feminine and fluid.
This image could almost seem like a fantasy, impossible to exist in the real world. As a matter of fact, it rarely does. While good ballet dancers are not numerous, great ones come our way so infrequently that they usually become legends.
This is certainly Alessandra Ferri's destiny.
For people not familiar with her dancing, they might wonder what distinguishes one principal dancer from another. Why is she so special? The answer is rather difficult to put into words since her magnificent qualities defy description.
Just to see her move, to extend her incredibly arched foot, to observe the musicality that ripples through her entire body as she makes an otherwise academic step look like poetry-------all of this lyricism, exquisite line and passionate expression is so evident that the observer cannot help but be taken in by the beauty of it all. She surely exemplifies what ballet is supposed to be.
Alessandra Ferri is a highly accomplished Italian ballerina and performs a beautiful ballet routine as Sting plays Bach’s Perlude on his guitar. The warm up scenes are very intimate too as he does yoga stretches and she gets her shoes ready—it’s soothing and has a nice ending as well.
Music video with Alessandra Ferri (principal dancer with American Ballet Theater) and Sting.
Work: Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
How many times I have seen this video; I enjoyed it again. Two lovely artists delighting in music written so long ago. Pure art on what looks like a warehouse floor.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you liked this.
DeleteThe choice of performing space/location
might be a distinctive and
integral part of the work
and certainly a deliberate
part of the design.
The choice of area,
especially when it is
as unique as a warehouse floor,
where Ferri dances across
to the accompaniment of
Sting's guitar Bach: Suite for Cello,
reflects a view of dance
as primarily an dramatic movement,
and only secondarily
the performing stage.
There is no loss of identity:
the differences among
dance genre and music media
would flow in sharp contrast
with the costumes and scenery.
As in other performing arts,
the variation is acceptable
as long as they
are consistent with
the dramatic theme.
This is a neoclassical work
which embody music in
choreography and aims
to shift in understanding
of the art form from one
primarily concerned with
the rhythmic dance movements
of ballerina Ferri
to one recognizing the
classical Bach Cello solo
performed through guitar way
by the musician,
singer-songwriter, STING...
ReplyDelete".....reflects a view of dance
as primarily an dramatic movement..." --
*reflects a view of dance
as primarily 'a' dramatic movement.*