La fille mal garde with Nadia Nerina and David Blair
This disc surprised me. I thought that being in black and white would be disappointing--however it seemed to have its own ambience that did not take away from the performance. Very early in the disc, I began to smile and laugh out loud and this persisted throughout the entire performance, including the name credits at the end--which if you see it, you will understand why, again, I laughed out loud. David Blair was a very strong and likeable alpha male dancer.Nadia Nerina is thechnically exquisite and sooooo cute, albeit she is slightly older than some prima ballerinas. but her mannerisms are very charming and her proportions are just about perfect. The entire production was staged for TV and it is beautiful..The preformance that could rival this one for sheer joy and good humor is the splenidid Australian Ballet production with a vibrant David MacAllister as Colas and the exceengly lovely Fiona Tonkin as Lise. I would not be without either one. There are three other versions of...
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