昨天在看Baryshnikov指导ABT并主演的《唐*吉呵德》DVD中,又看到了帅哥Patrick Bissell叹为观止的形象和舞技。想起现在世道标准已落到梁朝伟的境地,不免噫唏。
可怜他年方三十便死于吸毒。
网上找不到好照片。
- Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/26/2007
touche wrote:
昨天在看Baryshnikov指导ABT并主演的《唐*吉呵德》DVD中,又看到了帅哥Patrick Bissell叹为观止的形象和舞技。想起现在世道标准已落到梁朝伟的境地,不免噫唏。
可怜他年方三十便死于吸毒。
网上找不到好照片。
This is a good Ballet, wonderful play. last time we talked about Spartacus, also great.
how about Vaslav Nijinsky?
- Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/26/2007
what did you say?
Patrick Bissell 年方三十便死于吸毒, while 梁朝伟 is still alive after 35? What did you mean 梁朝伟 is not as good as Patrick Bissell ?
- Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/27/2007
touche wrote:
昨天在看Baryshnikov指导ABT并主演的《唐*吉呵德》DVD中,又看到了帅哥Patrick Bissell叹为观止的形象和舞技。想起现在世道标准已落到梁朝伟的境地,不免噫唏。
我就蛮喜欢梁朝伟的呀,虽然不够帅(我大概是小资没救了),不过我还未看《色戒》。我有看过的朋友说看完就不喜欢梁朝伟了。
话说回来,男人也来评帅哥?不免噫唏。
- Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/27/2007
We are not blind, are we? The guy really stands out, way out. No one looks and moves more princely.
浮生 wrote:
话说回来,男人也来评帅哥?不免噫唏。 - Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/28/2007
i will get the DVD and find out:) - Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/28/2007
He was really amazing. I love him :-)
touche uses a right word---princely... :-) the best word to describe him
maya wrote:
i will get the DVD and find out:) - Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/28/2007
谁说现在是梁朝伟标准?
至于这个Patrick是否有王子般的风度,那,有待考证。
我喜欢Brad Pitt和乔治克鲁尼这样的。:))) - posted on 10/28/2007
Patrick Bissell
Date of Birth
1 December 1957, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Date of Death
28 December 1987, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. (suicide by drug overdose)
Birth Name
Walter Patrick Bissell
Nickname
Tarzan (named by the ballerinas in the company because of his amazing size and strength).
Wally
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Spouse
Jolinda Menendez (1982 - 1983)
Trade Mark
Big cowboy hats, cowboys boots and motorcycles.
His "tough cowboy" look.
Trivia
Danced in the corps with the New York City Ballet until getting an offer as principal with the American Ballet Theatre.
Was called by ballet legend and superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov: "One of the brightest lights in the entire ballet world."
Was romantically linked to ABT soloist Amy Rose at the time of his death.
He and his brother were victims of very severe emotional child abuse.
He first got into ballet when his sister would bring him to her dance classes and ask him to be her dance partner.
He also had a twin brother (fraternal, not identical).
His mother wrote a magazine article about the untimely (but inevitable) death of her son called "A Mother's Plea."
His interest in ballet began with his oldest sister, Susan. A tall girl, she recruited her lanky 10-year-old brother to be her dance-class partner. He was a natural - so much so that at 14 he left home to study at the National Academy of Dance in Champaign, Illinois, and later at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Danced with Martine van Hamel, Cynthia Gregory, Gelsey Kirkland, Susan Jaffe, Leslie Browne, and Alessandra Ferri, Natalia Makarova, Karin Kain, and Galina Samsova and others.
Was a student of the School of American Ballet, the most prestigious academy in the United States, and moved into the top ranks of American Ballet Theatre.
Was thrown into the role of principal very early because of the lack of leading men in the American Ballet Theatre. Many thought he seemed "green and unfinished" early on in his career, although he quickly picked up the pace and soon became in great demand as a partner, particularly for the very tall women in ABT, whom were in dire need of large partners.
His role as the Solor in "Kingdom of the Shades" from La Bayadère with the American Ballet Theatre in Los Angeles marked his debut with the ABT with rising ABT ballerina Jolina Menendez announced his debut as principal. He continued an extended relationship with her and even married her.
During his stint with the ABT, at his peak, his salary was almost $250,000 a year, including guest appearance fees.
He spent a great deal of time at the Betty Ford center due to his drug addiction and numerous injuries (the drugs were burning him out at both ends).
With salary dancing with the ABT and guest appearance fees combined, he made almost a quarter of a million dollars a year.
While dancing with ABT, he was promoted to principal dancer at the tender age of 21, due mostly to the shortage of men in the company.
Personal Quotes
"Looking back on it all, I think I've been incredibly lucky. I mean, it could have gone the other way for me. If I wasn't a dancer--I would be a teenage hoodlum!"
"To work with the ABT is the greatest joy."
"It's not a question of dying, but of leaving behind the people you love."
"Philadelphia was a very strange incident, because I was very, very successful. 'Why did I do it? I don't know. It's something I'm working on with a doctor to find out why I punish myself after having successful performances. . . . That's a problem with the drugs. I do good performances, and then I punish myself with the drugs. I try to destroy myself. It's a weird kind of cycle. You don't know why the brain does the things that it does."
"Well, it's all very new to me. I'm still a young dancer and I feel I have a long way to go. I've got a lot to learn about dancing, so I want people to just stick with me and allow me to grow. I want to have a long and lasting career in which I can develop as an artist. I really want to dance well. I don't want to go out there and dance spectacles - do a few tricks, be flamboyant and get a few people to like me. I want to fulfill myself and develop as an artist. To be a star... well, some people think, 'Boy, wouldn't that be great!' But I don't feel that way about it. But what I'm really interested in is to grow and develop as an artist."
- posted on 10/28/2007
The New York Times
December 30, 1987
Patrick Bissell, Dancer, Is Dead; A Principal With Ballet Theater
By JENNIFER DUNNING
Patrick Bissell, a leading principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Hoboken, N.J. He was 30 years old.
The cause of death was not yet known pending the outcome of an autopsy, according to a spokesman for Ballet Theater yesterday. The Hudson County Medical Examiner's office declined to discuss the cause of death, and a spokesman for the Hoboken Police Department said the cause of death was undetermined.
Mr. Bissell was found by his fiancee, Amy Rose, a Ballet Theater soloist.
"Patrick Bissell was without a doubt one of the brightest lights in American Ballet Theater's history, or, for that matter, in the entire ballet world," Mikhail Baryshnikov, the artistic director of Ballet Theater, said yesterday. "I saw Patrick just before Christmas, and we discussed his plans for the season. He looked forward to performing with the company during the upcoming tour. Besides his brilliant technique, Patrick also possessed an artistry that touched us all.
"This tragedy leaves a tremendous void in the dance world and in our lives. We shall all miss him very, very much." An American-Style Prince
Mr. Bissell was imbued with a seemingly natural classical elegance and presence. A tall and ruggedly handsome dancer, he was known as a gifted partner and technician and was frequently described as an American-style ballet prince.
"Already, he carries his tall frame with beautiful sweep and classical style," Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times's chief dance critic, wrote in 1978 when Mr. Bissell, still a member of the corps de ballet, danced Solor, the male lead, in Natalia Makarova's production of "La Bayadere."
Mr. Bissell was known for his big, buoyant jumps and easy turns, and for the passion and conviction of his acting. His dancing had a distinctive quality of heroism and grandness of scale. But Mr. Bissell was also an uneven and unpredictable performer, though that quality gave his dancing an extra sense of spontaneity and excitement.
Born in Corpus Christi, Tex., Mr. Bissell began training in ballet and jazz dance at the age of 10 in Toledo, Ohio. At 15, he left home to study at ballet academies around the nation, including the National Academy of Dance in Champaign, Ill., and at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Encouraged by Kirstein
He then came to New York to study ballet as a scholarship student at the School of American Ballet, where he was encouraged by Lincoln Kirstein and Stanley Williams, one of Mr. Bissell's teachers.
Mr. Bissell joined Ballet Theater in 1977 as a corps dancer, after a brief stint at the Boston Ballet, but he soon began dancing such lead roles as Solor and as the Prince in Mr. Baryshnikov's production of "The Nutcracker." He was promoted to soloist at Ballet Theater in 1978 and to principal dancer in 1979.
His repertory of lead roles was extremely wide and varied and included Don Jose in Roland Petit's "Carmen," Franz in "Coppelia," Basil and Espada in "Don Quixote," Albrecht in "Giselle," Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet," Prince Siegfried in "Swan Lake," James in "La Sylphide," Prince Desire in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's "Sleeping Beauty" and lead roles in George Balanchine's "Stravinsky Violin Concerto," "Symphonie Concertante" and "Theme and Variations." He created the role of the Prince in Mr. Baryshnikov's production of "Cinderella."
For much of his career, however, Mr. Bissell was plagued with injuries, and there were reports of drug and alcohol problems. He was dismissed from Ballet Theater in 1980 and 1981 on the grounds of chronic lateness and missed rehearsals. He was arrested in 1981 in Bloomington, Ind., and charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct and pushing a policeman, for which he received a suspended sentence. 'Dance Is So Consuming'
In interviews, he expressed a clear sense of what he wanted from dance and what he wanted to bring to it, but he was also something of a troubled perfectionist.
"Dance is so consuming physically and mentally," he said in 1978. "There was a point in my life when I wanted to raise hell. I don't have the energy or ambition for that anymore. But I do have much more freedom than most people my age. When I got my own apartment with my own possessions around me I wanted to work hard. To work was the greatest joy."
Mr. Bissell was divorced from Jolinda Menendez, a former principal dancer with Ballet Theater.
He is survived by his parents, Donald and Pat, of Fort Smith, Ark.; a twin brother, William, also of Fort Smith; his brother Donald, of Stuart, Fla., and two sisters, Susan Erwin and Barbara Dumesil, both of San Diego.
- Re: 最帅的舞蹈家,美国王子Patrick Bissellposted on 10/28/2007
A playboy.:)
- posted on 10/28/2007
Touche 的taste 其实是非常阳刚的,豪迈的,天然的,黄钟大吕的,激情澎湃的。他喜欢英雄主义,and greatness. 比如,他喜欢帕瓦罗蒂, 还有这个巨人舞蹈家。。。
所以,梁朝伟太小,不入touche 的法眼, 至于Brad Pitt和乔治克鲁尼, 也根本不在这个范围内。
帕瓦罗蒂和Patrick Bissell 是天然的,这就是天才,独一无二的。
茄,上海的男人也不都是伶着带鱼回家做饭的
:-)
xiaoman wrote:
谁说现在是梁朝伟标准?
至于这个Patrick是否有王子般的风度,那,有待考证。
我喜欢Brad Pitt和乔治克鲁尼这样的。:)))
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