Sergei Polunin // COPPELIA (Near-complete Frantz Performance)

Stanislavsky Ballet: Roland Petit's "Coppelia" 2013, 2015
Frantz: Sergei Polunin (Сергей Полунин)
Swanilda: Kristina Shapran and Erika Mikirticheva
Dr. Coppelius: Anton Domashev and Nikita Kirillov

This is not a complete ballet. However, it does appear to include most, if not all, of the scenes Frantz/Sergei Polunin appears in. (I have not seen the entire Roland Petit "Coppelia", so I'm not sure.) I edited together footage I found of three separate performances from January 2013 and brief outtakes from 2015. (Which is why you will see two different ballerinas performing Swanhilda).

You can find parts of Sergei's "Coppelia" performances here on YouTube, but these were the longest segments I was able to find. I did my best to edit together the videos into one performance that was as complete an experience as possible. There are several cuts in the scenes where no footage for that part of the performance was available. I also included the finale for all 4 performances - because how could I not? Sergei's brilliant! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
ABOUT THE BALLET:
This Coppélia is Igor Zelensky’s tribute to Roland Petit, who choreographed it for the Ballet National de Marseille in 1975. It was mounted for the Stanislavsky Ballet, which Zelensky directs, by Petit’s right-hand man, Luigi Bonino, in 2012, a year after Petit’s death, using the original sets by Enzio Frigerio and costumes by Franca Squarciapino.

At the start of the ballet, we are introduced to Franz, a soldier still in undress, smoking a cigar. Sergei Polunin, standing nonchalantly centre-stage, launches into a solo that tells us about the character and the dancer. He’s a show-off, wryly aware of his handsome looks and equally handsome technique, which he can take for granted. He doesn’t seem to have a care in the world, though he may be deluded: Franz is eyeing an impassive girl high up in a window rather than paying attention to his down-to-earth fiançée... and that wandering eye will soon land him in a world of trouble!
(revised from a published review https://dancetabs.com/2013/07/moscow-stanislavsky-ballet-roland-petits-coppelia-london/)

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Source videos: https://www.dailymotion.com/fiordililia and https://youtu.be/Vbrhh4Hbra8

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