Here the two dancers perform a pas de deux choreographed by Maurice Bejart. The "music" they are performing to are faint sounds of whooshing wind so it might be hard to hear.
Sir Anton and Spessivtzeva discuss dancing the roles of Giselle and Albrecht. The footage of them dancing is from 1932. Spessivtzeva had suffered a nervous breakdown earlier and is probably medicated here (not while she is dancing!). She passed away in 1991.
In this clip the legendary ballerina performs the first act variation from Giselle. In 1932, she was the first ballerina to perform this in the west. She speaks here (she had a nervous breakdown several years earlier) with Anton Dolin, both former principal dancers with Diaghilev's Ballet Russe. He is teaching the variation to Patricia McBride at the end of this clip.
Marianna Tcherkassky (former principal ballerina with ABT) performs a beautiful interpretation as Giselle from Giselle Act II. Hilary Cartwright is in the role of Myrthe.
Earlier I posted Sylvie dancing the variation from Grand Pas Clasique. There were several comments that it was not her. Here is a clip from the same night. This is when she wore the Louise Brooks bob.
A very young and beautiful Karen Kain and Rudy Bryans rehearse Roland Petit's Coppelia Pas de Deux. I uploaded this because this differs from the one the duo do in performance.
![Don\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/y__7oXgE7Y8/2.jpg "Don\")
![Elizabeth Platel performs Aurora\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ry9mEi28puc/2.jpg "Elizabeth Platel performs Aurora\")
![Amanda McKerrow performs Pavlova\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/9SL37L-lMbs/2.jpg "Amanda McKerrow performs Pavlova\")
![Karen Kain & Rudy Bryans rehearse Roland Petit\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/F4weVDudvdQ/2.jpg "Karen Kain & Rudy Bryans rehearse Roland Petit\")
