Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In film of Jacques D’Amboise and Carla Fracci performing the Act 2 pas de deux from ‘Swan Lake’, I noticed that D’Amboise turns with his foot flat on the floor, rather than on demi-pointe.
In the footage here, you see this at eighteen and twenty-six seconds.
Has anyone seen this kind of turning before?
Can anyone add anything about this particular technique?
In film of Jacques D’Amboise and Carla Fracci performing the Act 2 pas de deux from ‘Swan Lake’, I noticed that D’Amboise turns with his foot flat on the floor, rather than on demi-pointe.
In the footage here, you see this at eighteen and twenty-six seconds.
Has anyone seen this kind of turning before?
Can anyone add anything about this particular technique?
![Rudolph Nureyev, Karen Kain and Second Cast Rehearse Sleeping Beauty [National Ballet of Canada]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hbvnYXLCKUw/mqdefault.jpg "Rudolph Nureyev, Karen Kain and Second Cast Rehearse Sleeping Beauty [National Ballet of Canada]
This is footage of Rudolph Nureyev and Karen Kain and of a second cast rehearsing Nureyev’s production of ‘The Sleeping Beauty for the National Ballet of Canada.
The set designer for this production was to be Nicholas Georgiadis, who Nureyev had used on many enterprises.
What’s interesting for me in this video was hearing Nureyev and Kain discussing technical problems - using highly technical language, like when the ballerina says “if there’s too much yank, I can’t control my force”!
Enjoy!")
