10 Popular Female Ballet Dances | incl. Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Giselle & Plisetskaya, Lopatkina

Discover classical ballet with some of the most popular ballerina moments. Including Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Dying Swan, Coppélia and Jewels. With performances by acclaimed stars Ulyana Lopatkina, Maya Plisetskaya, Alina Somova or Margot Fonteyn (dancing with Rudolf Nureyev). 00:00 Intro 00:04 The Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairy (Alina Somova, music: Tchaikovsky) 02:05 Don Quixote: Kitri Variation (Anna Tsyganova, music: Léon Minkus) 02:56 The Dying Swan (Maya Plisetskaya, music: Saint-Saëns) 05:40 Jewels, Act III: Diamonds Variation (Ulyana Lopatkina, music: Tchaikovsky) 07:02 Coppélia: Mechanical Dolls, Coppélia Suite, Musique des automates (Víctor Ullate Ballet) 08:54 Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans (Ballet of Staatsoper Berlin) 10:25 Les Sylphides: Pas de deux, Waltz in C Sharp Minor (Fonteyn/Nureyev, music: Chopin) 11:07 Giselle: Dance of the Willis (Ballet of Staatstheater Stuttgart, music: Ad