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  1. Well about two minutes of Tzigane and one can completely understand why Balanchine was obsessed with her.

  2. In an interview over on Youtube the older Ferrell points out something interesting about technique. She says, “You have to be fascinating before you enter. Then the technique is just the icing on the cake.”

  3. “A lot of dancers don’t want to move, they just want to pose.”

    I don’t know what to make of this — it is anti-intuitive. This may be some great insight of the professional or the trained dancer that is lost on me. For example in the video Tzigane the dance/role seems to call for the pose – as accent or emphasis or something. And overall and generally speaking, the guys seem even more the posers, positioning themselves for the embrace, lift, toss, etc.

  4. George Pal: that’s just the first minute or two of Tzigane, where the choreography happens to feature poses rather than dancing. Once the real dancing starts, Farrell is extremely fluid, unusually so. Her quote means that for too many dancers, choreography that is supposed to be fluid and seamless turns into a series of poses instead, as though they’re looking at themselves in the mirror in a classroom rather than paying attention to the flow of movement and the music.

    I see that sort of thing in dancers all the time, but I never see it in Farrell (except for moments such as the beginning of Tzigane, where the choreography calls for exaggerated posing).

  5. In my local newspaper, in a synopsis of a movie entitled “First Position”:

    “Nothing objectionable, except for some nasty feet.”

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