Name: Diana Nahim
Date: 05 February 2012 08:20:05 GMT
Remarks:
Ah Sylvie... at last you come back to us. New York eagerly awaits you :)
Name: Jeannine
Date: 04 February 2012 23:55:44 GMT
Remarks:
Thank you for taking the time to make this website.
It's wonderful for the mind and soul....
Take Care ~
Name: naivete
Date: 31 January 2012 13:24:48 GMT
Remarks:
Dear Sarah,
for some reason I believe self portrait means self portrait... ;)
Name: Sarah
Date: 31 January 2012 13:14:28 GMT
Remarks:
Hi all
Just checking if anyone can confirm dates/ details for me re. the Le Monde pic of Sylvie (self portrait)...taken in 2004? by whom (photographer- Gilles?)
thanks a bunch
Name: laurence
Date: 31 January 2012 12:44:41 GMT
Remarks:
Oui Dominique, comme un anniversaire, et le souhait des fées au berceau après le passage de Carabosse, le revoir dans un an ...
Name: dominique de madrid
Date: 30 January 2012 16:07:35 GMT
Remarks:
Il y a un an déjá Manon à Milan!Magique!Merci Sylvie de nous avoir apporté tant de bonheur!
Name: carola peschieri
Date: 28 January 2012 10:30:24 GMT
Remarks:
Congratulations! Yuo are alwayes the best
Name: Mitsuko
Date: 24 January 2012 04:27:44 GMT
Remarks:
felicitation Sylvie!
felicitation Acram!
merci Nakis pour votre information.
j'espere que Akram va mieux maintenant.
Sylvie me manque deja malgre que je l'ai vu plusieurs fois l'annee derniere. esperant qu'elle reviendra en ete...
Name: Nakis
Date: 23 January 2012 21:25:18 GMT
Remarks:
I just read that Sylvie has won the National Dance Award for “Outstanding female performance” (modern) for her latest work “Sylvie Guillem 6000 miles away", which like so many people here, I had the chance to see and fall under its spell at the Sadler’s last July. My most sincere congratulations and admiration for this highly deserved award for a performance which combined wondrous fearless virtuosity, emotion, humor and utter beauty and which will now be presented this week at the “Holland Dance Festival” on January 26th and January 27th.
It is also worth noting that Akram Kahn has won for “Best modern choreography” for “Vertical Road”. Once more, my most sincere congratulations for both artists and all the best for Sylvie and her dancing partners at the Holland Dance Festival.
P.S. j.Bloomfield, thank you for your kind words, I am just trying to express as I can my gratitude for Sylvie’s incomparable art and what it means to me.
Name: j.Bloomfield
Date: 23 January 2012 05:05:23 GMT
Remarks:
Ps. I agree with your list 100% Nakis. Truly all brilliant..., how Guillem does this is simply awe inspiring for real.
This is what makes her the greatest, what allows people to talk into the wee small hours of the morning about her.
Jerome- please, spare me.. you probably think a dead body on display is art? Good for you.
Stephen- rude? oh... just in case you did not hear me. Kahn is not a dancer any more than a "hot dog" is food. Buuuuut....
By all means enjoy your hot dog. It has its place just like football songs at a match.
Name: J.Bloomfield
Date: 23 January 2012 04:30:15 GMT
Remarks:
Nakis- perhaps we are all right? What we are debating is life i guess. Cheers and thank you for your thoughts.
Name: SAS
Date: 19 January 2012 23:49:20 GMT
Remarks:
Dépendant du SOLEIL, liés au Cosmos
Name: dominique de madrid
Date: 15 January 2012 21:02:43 GMT
Remarks:
A J.B.Je vais me diriger à vous en français car je ne domine pas l´anglais aussi bien que vous.Vous parlez de mort du cygne,quelle tristesse!!!Rien que le mot me peine car Sylvie est l ´incarnation de la Vie avec un grand V,qu ´elle danse du classique ou du contemporain elle est parfaite,elle brille depuis plus de 30 ans,elle est la meilleure et toujours avec la même humilité.S ´il y a un mot qui va bien avec elle c ´est le mot RESPECT....RESPECT pour ses rôles,respect pour ses partenaires,et surtout respect pour son public...Elle est infatigable,répétant jusqu ´à l épuisement,jamais satistaite,alors laissez-la tranquille....Nous l´aimons,c ´est tout....et elle nous a donné tant de bonheur!!!
Name: Jerome
Date: 15 January 2012 16:55:26 GMT
Remarks:
JB, you are saying you love fire but keep talking about ashes , how someone can dream of seeing Sylvie in Dying Swan , you don't have enough russians around ? You remind me all those people who where saying that their son could draw as well as Picasso not knowing that Picasso at 17 was painting as well Velasquez.....
Goya discovered his own talent the day he decided to stop pleasing....
I am pretty sure there tons of dying swans around
Name: Nakis
Date: 14 January 2012 13:21:36 GMT
Remarks:
J.B.
As a matter of fact I have seen Sylvie in some of her greatest classical roles like "Manon", Juliette, Giselle, Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Marguerite, so I do feel privileged and grateful. I worship her in these parts and I will treasure these moments I have witnessed on stage forever, but I also treasure her dancing in pieces by Bejart, Forsythe, Mats Ek, Maliphant, Lepage, and yes A. Kahn. Different worlds perhaps, but also complementary, fascinating.
It is a different kind of pleasure that I personally get from seeing Sylvie dancing with Kahn or Maliphant or Lepage than let us say in Giselle or Manon, and naturally I also have my personal favorites but I think in dancing there is a place for various worlds, various horizons.
As for Sylvie's artistic choices, I am pretty sure that she assumes all the risks and all her choices which I believe represent her philosophy of dancing, movement as well as what she wishes to share with her public. She can of course make mistakes, but on the other hand, I prefer an artist who takes risks than someone who assumes the "safe" repertoire ; after all one cannot imagine as creative an artist like Sylvie spend her entire dancing career doing "Swan Lake" or "Don Quichotte". She has defended these marvelous ballets and gave them all she could give them (artistry, intelligence, emotion, magic) but she also needs to explore other artistic paths, meet new choreographers, show something else to the public. If you do not like her artistic encounter with A. Kahn, “ce n'est pas grave”, she obviously does and I do as well as many other people have done so. Perhaps you are right, perhaps we are wrong, or it could be the other way around, after all we cannot share the same opinions about everything an artist does.
Name: stephen/klingsor
Date: 14 January 2012 12:38:31 GMT
Remarks:
JB, I think you certainly have the right to put your views forward, I don't doubt that you are a sincere fan of Sylvie Guillem. It's just that your initial comment was put in a rude way.
Name: bela
Date: 14 January 2012 12:13:05 GMT
Remarks:
"hit the road,jack..."
sylvie walks on water as far as i'm concerned.
re: upcoming performances of "6000 miles away" does anyone know if cayla and kojiri are doing kylian's 27'52"?
Name:
Date: 14 January 2012 07:42:38 GMT
Remarks:
pps Jerome- that is brilliant! "Preservation of the fire" I love that. I dont want ashes but the fire.. thats my point.
Name:
Date: 14 January 2012 07:40:50 GMT
Remarks:
bella- Mecca does not exist, neither does god or any of that nonsense. I am a Darwinist and evolution is the key. Sadly so is de-evolution. All men are created equal- some more equal than others. J.B.
Name:
Date: 14 January 2012 07:36:48 GMT
Remarks:
Nakis- thank you for your comment. this is the point.. if art moves you, ( as it does via your comment even if its house paint), then it has done its job and thats art. Art is life, as too is movement. Nothing more.
My fear for Ms Guillem is- she will have those around her who, like the emperor and his new clothes, will tell her " all is great". Or like Rudolf..walk on stage, expect to be praised, and find the opposite. Or like Elvis weeping as he forgot the words to a simple song a few weeks before he was lost, ( and a few minutes before he went on stage his "supporters" told him he was the greatest...), or Dudley Moore when he walked on to play the piano...and could not- he was booed ( I was there)., or Fonteyn.. taken to ruin by her husband.
Here is the bottom line. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on airfares, accommodation, car hire and restaurants across the world to see Ms Guillem, selfishly, as she does what no other can/could do. Guillem could walk on stage and sit in a chair for an hour and its art...100%. She does not need a khan.
He will take Guillem to ruin. thats all, whilst his business "model" will work like Ronald Macdonald and his hamburger chain. Popular? yes. Food? yes. Will it move you? yes. Nutrition? nil...
Nakis if you have not seen Guillem in her classical rolesor or dance to Bach etc.... you have not lived.
So, go and buy a DVD of these and you will get far more from that than any foot stomping exercise you can see at any local takeaway or on tour through the continent with a backpack.
J.B.