Now & Then - Sleeping Beauty Prince variation - 11 solos - Fullington, Ratmansky, Baryshnikov, ...

The choreo for the Prince variation comes in two main persuations: The notated one and the "new" one by Konstantin Sergeyev, written half a century later. Most stagings use the K. Sergeyev or a derivative.

The K. Segeyev has three zigzag lines with cabrioles, a double tours line, a pirouette and a manege. The first two and last two jumps in the manege are different, the rest are coupe jetes en tournant. The dancer ends the variation down on knee.

Derivative choreos usually leave out the pirouette or change the first two jumps in the manege (jetes entrelace) to something else. The Bolshoi had in the 1980-90s different choreo for the zigzag lines.

And then there was Nureyev, who added more steps to the zigzag lines and changed the manege to half barrel turns, half jetes, and ended the variation standing. There are other minor changes as well - it was very much a work in progress.

The RB likes to do small changes every few years. Sometimes it's the zigzag lines, sometimes the last two double tours, sometimes the first two jumps in the manege.

The NBC did not change the zigzag lines much but put everything and the kitchen sink in the manege.

I'm sure there are many more derivatives out there...

And last but not least, tempo and length vary greatly.

For the montage I used footage available on YT. Many thanks to the uploaders.

notated variation 1 (Fullington) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xpOVN3cfGc
notated variation 2 (Ratmansky) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WecbHUHO8Aw
Sergeyev w/ pirouette: don't remember the source
Sergeyev w/o pirouette (Baryshnikov) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28DPboIunXI
Sergeyev w/o jetes entrelaces
(Fadeyechev) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sr8cBab_eo
(Tsiskaridze) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wna0dLJDsBI
Nureyev w/o assemble tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgNHBlpXAs
Nureyev w/ assemble tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3WiCWvXQI
RB 1970s (Wall) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8L3l9KM9_0
RB 2000s (Kobborg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lENaL9DWEHM
NBC 1970s: don't remember the source

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