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cubanmiamiboy
I think that the guys deserve a good shot too...so let's forget for a moment that "Ballet is Woman".
Suggestions are the same as in the female thread...past or present dancers, it's your choice!
I'll start:
Nureyev
Baryshnikov
Acosta
Sarabita
pmeja
pavel gerdt
anton dolin
robert helpmann
rudolph nureyev

;)
klingsor
Dowell
Legris
Boal
Bruhn
Hans
Klingsor, that's exactly the combination that came into my mind when I saw this thread.
adrika
Sir Anthony Dowell
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolf Nureyev
Manuel Legris

I just don't want to be in the coreographer's shoes for this one!


volcanohunter
Since I've never had the opportunity to see Dolin's Variations, would someone mind describing them, so I could get a better idea about what sort of dancer would be suitable for each?
papeetepatrick
Lazzaro Carreno
Peter Schaufuss
Angel Corella
Vladimir Schlkyarov

carbro
QUOTE (volcanohunter @ Jul 23 2008, 02:50 PM) *
Since I've never had the opportunity to see Dolin's Variations, would someone mind describing them, so I could get a better idea about what sort of dancer would be suitable for each?
I couldn't give you specifics, having seen it only two or three times a few years ago, but I'm choosing to be less literal and pretend it's a whole new ballet we'd be casting. I'm also going by the "current dancers" rule Leigh specified in the female thread.

Here's my dream quartet, alphabetically:
Tyler Angle
Jose Carreno
Herman Cornejo
Marcelo Gomes
cubanmiamiboy
QUOTE (carbro @ Jul 23 2008, 11:42 AM) *
QUOTE (volcanohunter @ Jul 23 2008, 02:50 PM) *
Since I've never had the opportunity to see Dolin's Variations, would someone mind describing them, so I could get a better idea about what sort of dancer would be suitable for each?
I couldn't give you specifics, having seen it only two or three times a few years ago, but I'm choosing to be less literal and pretend it's a whole new ballet we'd be casting. I'm also going by the "current dancers" rule Leigh specified in the female thread.

Carbro is right about this. I also saw it a couple of times years ago in Havana, but memories of it are kind of vague. Anyways, as said, this is just an excuse to cast four "divos' together...(Actually, there's even a better ballet for this purposes, which was choreographed by BNC by Azary Plisetsky in 1973 called "Vital Song" to a Mahler's Symphony. I also believe this ballet was included in the last US tour of the Cuban troupe) . The original cast included the best four male dancers at the time in Cuba: Jorge Esquivel (now at San Francisco Ballet) portraying "The Fish", Andres Williams (the first black Cuban dancer to get to the top ranks back then, who portrayed "The Beast", Orlando Salgado (one of the last Alonso's partners) who did "Nature" and finally Lazaro Carreno (Jose Manuel Carreno's uncle and currently included in Patrick's list on this thread wink1.gif ), who danced "The Bird". It is a powerful ballet, and the dancers are presented almost naked.
Here's a pic of it:
http://www.exploredance.com/pressphotos/ba...ubacantov2.jpeg

So we can switch ballets...
Ostrich
Present:

Johann Kobborg
Andrei Uvarov
Friedemann Vogel
David Hallberg

Past:

Yuri Soloviev
Maris Liepa
Rudolf Nureyev
Fernando Bujones


cubanmiamiboy
QUOTE (Ostrich @ Jul 24 2008, 09:46 AM) *
Present:

Johann Kobborg
Andrei Uvarov
Friedemann Vogel
David Hallberg

Past:

Yuri Soloviev
Maris Liepa
Rudolf Nureyev
Fernando Bujones



Oh, God...now i know it....i need to recast, using two different castings. I'll do a cuban one and a Soviet one-(past and present together)

The Cuban Casting:

Carlos Acosta
Jose Manuel Carreno
Rolando Sarabia
Fernando Bujones

The Soviet Casting:

Rudi Nureyev
Yuri Soloviev (how could i leave him out earlier?! wallbash.gif )
Misha Baryshnikov
Vahtang Chabukiani
Hans
How about a Trockadero cast...or would that go in the other thread?
cubanmiamiboy
If you know them by name, then please, go ahead and cast...this is a men's thread. (even in drag)
jllaney
My currently dancing cast. One for turning, one for jumping, one for partnering and one for his lines. wink1.gif

Marcelo Gomes
Carlos Acosta
Ivan Putrov
Ivan Vasiliev
Ostrich
QUOTE (jllaney @ Jul 26 2008, 03:36 AM) *
One for turning, one for jumping, one for partnering and one for his lines. wink1.gif


Oh, I like that idea. Here's mine:

Angel Corella
Irek Mukhamedov
Cyril Pierre
Nikolai Tsiskaridze
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