Svetlana Zakharova Amazing Fouettes

[sugar6486]

That was AMAZING! But she looks so skinny :(

[edie19591]

She is amazing! Look at her legs and her toes! It takes a hell of a lot of strength in your feet to pull that off! As one who took ballet from age 5 to my mid twenties - (I still have my "toe shoes" and practice "barre" daily at 52!) - she deserves to be called a "prima ballerina".

[lusqueal93]

The turns are awesome. Not sure how I feel about her arms

[MAXSERSAR]

In fact, we are talking about the grand masters and Zakharova is really not the best in doing fouettes. There are a number of stars in Bolshoi who turns are much better, more difficult and cleaner. Look at videos of Ekaterina Krysanova or Natalia Osipova (former Bolshoi Theater). If you understand ballet you will agree with me. Alternatively, look at Lali Kandelaki fouettes and you will get truly exceptional turns.

[SquishyCustard]

I thought i was boss when i landed a single en pointe. I saw this and died a bit on the inside..... :(

[rosela1o1]

Want to see you do it then!!!

[nastyyyxD]

I agree with lots of comments here. In my opinion her pirouettes are unbelievable and absolutely amazing but I don't like her arm position. It doesn't fit with her perfection!

[hannahaysesims]

16 dislikes? I'd like to see you do better. A m a z i n g fouettes.

[SuperS800]

She's so beautiful! I wonder how she manage to have such a slim body yet her face is still quite "meaty"...whenever i lose weight the first thing that actually looses weight in me is my face so I look weird. I never go on a diet but dancing ballet really makes one loose alot of weight even though I don't want to. Oh well!

[zarabatanabizarra]

She's so beautiul

[kanuF3]

Gosh, I don't even think she's human... Amazing, Espectacular, I'm Annoyed...

*O* Those Fouettes, they were like... I mean, the guy pff his moves, I'd be happy doin' the half they do...

[bunnies2000]

Her arms are too angular but the turns were incredible.

[GillianMoynihan]

HOLY COW that's amazing! Pirouettes and fouettes are so hard to do --- let alone en pointe!!!

[MadameGothica]

I miss pointe and I might start back. This sounds odd, but has anyone quit from it and their feet hurt from not doing it? I think I've lost it. : (

[chloelivi]

Everybody's a critic these days. More people need to shut mouths and quit talking shit about people who actually DO something.

[bkb718]

Wtf was that?

[plumplumpudding]

Mlle Guillem peut dormir tranquille car à ce jour elle reste sans rivale dans ce rôle de "Kitri" qui lui allait comme un gant et qui savait exprimer la Joie sans artifices et quel charisme(dans le sens noble du terme), quel panache, quelle Danse!!!

[acadia1106]

Man her feet must look like a bag of nickels!!!

[Dwightinho56]

Fantastique!

[ACADEMYGIRLZ6]

Which dance company does she dance with?

[EvanescenceROCKSS]

@ACADEMYGIRLZ6 The Bolshoi Ballet Company, but she is guest artists with other companies too, La Scala in italy is one of them. :)

[jakjak8792]

@sleepdancelove19 omg totally so true

I love the costume

[sleepdancelove19]

She belongs in a music box <3

[mmayyaa1]

Her legs never ends..so long.

I thought she did it amazing.

[stargirl247ful]

she did amazing, but i don't like these kind of fouettes

[rapparoo]

i sat through years of a relative angrilly criticising ballerinas on videos or television for not doing moves right and in retrospect i wished i had snapped back well you get up and show how it's done .... they are very thin but obviously this is a style (ie more angelina jolie than madonna) that not many of us could have ever attained to - bravo !! bravo !!!

[siamesebunny]

Stop commenting on her being too thin, this is how a Prima Ballerina should look. Perfection!

[TheRacingWind]

Her arms are a tad sloppy because LOOK AT HER FEET MY GOD.

[Dancerbabe12890]

Svetlana is amazing you should see the video of her in rehearsal it is amazing!

[MsLithuanianGirl]

I love how ignorant people who don't even know of all the different styles of each move judge her while they themselves will never amount to what she has amounted to.

[sggidlyrehc]

@MsLithuanianGirl I have a lot of respect for her, but is she not performing for an audience? To people that probably don't even know what a tendu is? Dance can be enjoyed by anyone, and similarly, laymen can have their own reservations against certain techniques irrelevant to their own mastery. It just is what it is. My two cents. No disrespect.

[iLoveeBallett123]

nobody is perfect in everything in ballet, so her arms are the only problem but she is still number 1!!!!!

[TheDancerchick251]

She needs to fix her arms!

[RafDil92]

perfect

[Guendalina54]

troppo magra: sembra anoressica, preferisco una danzatrice dalle linee più morbide e femminili.

[sweetswiftdreams]

she does need to work her hands, its true. as to the legs, its nor properly wrong. some people prefere doing the fouette legs straight to frappe fouette, not going through ronde de jambe en l'air

[Dancerchic9724]

Agreed @Aster55555. Her partner's feet are HORRIBLE. If you want to see some REALLY impressive fouettes en pointe then look up the final dance scene in the movie "Center Stage" Her hands,arms,feet,EVERYTHING are beautiful!!

[russianpointegirl]

@Dancerchic9724 You cannot possibly compare Amanda to Svetlana! Center Stage is a movie, this final dance scene has been filmed many times and cut together in the end - this is live performance!

[KatxMeow]

@russianpointegirl Lol, Amanda is so much better. Svetlana looks like a narcissist.

[MotionPictureMuse]

@KatxMeow What do you mean, she LOOKS like a narcissist? Are you saying you're making a judgement about her character based on how she dances and holds herself onstage?

[ikerovich]

I'm sorry if I bother to write it here, just try to be more objective in my comments and do not try to discredit anyone, I love the Russian school and many of his positions I defend myself because I was trained in it, but I think a criticism aimed at the improvement thereof, may be productive for everyone, not only enticed into the same childish comments

ohhhhhhhhh guauuuuuu saying, not this great ???!!!. There as they see ciao!

[Duxka]

amazing!

[asielnorton]

'experts' on all the ballet posts on youtube crack me up. literally look at every single top ballerina in the world and on youtube there are a bunch of couch potatoes on here complaining about her style. Svetlana Zakharova is one of the top ballerina's in the world and her performance is amazing.

[thegusgussymona]

OMG she is to skinny o::::

[NaomiLawlietJr]

To anyone who whines about how "bad" she looks: This is amazing. JUST WALKING on pointe hurts to high fuck, let alone doing FOUETES. She's got amazing accents on the turns. Mine just look all the same, despite the fact that I've been dancing for fifteen years. So stop the whining and try it yourself if you think it's awful.

[littlemermaid103]

@NaomiLawlietJr THANK YOU!

[NaomiLawlietJr]

@littlemermaid103 You are very welcome.

[HearthCricket]

@NaomiLawlietJr I know right? Listening to all this wanna be little girls who ARE NOT a prima ballerina...come on now....I THINK those WHO KNOW and saw her talent, style and the magic and CHOSE her to be where she is....might know just a little something more than these idiots with their jealous spiteful "critiques".....LOL!!!

[NaomiLawlietJr]

@HearthCricket ^.^ You are exactly spot on.

[GeorgeGogle]

Nina Ananiashvili does these fouettes much better, just check videos here, you'll be amazed.

[avesraggiana]

I don’t care for them. Brittle, unmusical and not very smooth or sexy.

[theluckynames]

Her arms do need some work but her legs are flawless...

[balleteveryday19]

i want her legs

[jglove988]

she has the prettiest legs out of any ballerina alive right now.

[fcpiggy]

the hell is wrong with her arms?

[me2totoo]

@fcpiggy whats wrong with yours?

[pointedancer1000]

RUSSIAN TRAINING!!!!! shes a gorgeous ballerina and doesnt deserves better than this critisism shes not sloppy pointe is difficult things r bound to look a little bad at points but come on shes AMAZING

[russianpointegirl]

@pointedancer1000 You mean she DOES deserves better than this! She's a number one Russian ballet dancer so people just should shut up about her being 'sloppy'! I agree with you, she's amazing!

[sciencewiz33]

@Aster55555 omg i know right. that made it sooooooo ugly

[lakenvelder0pandora]

@Aster55555 That's how they do it in Russia.

[Lydie1621]

How many?!?!



[tontoneto]

Problably the most complete ballerina of our days, all she makes is amazing and sublime, but in my opinion the unique thing that she needs to work are her fouettes, she needs a better control, for the rest is the best without doubt..

[CCmuggle22]

she is beautiful but I have never really liked her turns

[Valdrin96]

it's russian methode fouettes it's not like french or cuba's fouettes ...

[moeonline97]

I have always believed that until you are at the same level as someone, you really can't critique them. I believe that one has every right to look up to someone and take from them what they like and don't like. However, until you reach that person's level, be reasonable ;)

As for Zakharova's fouettes, there's nothing she can't do well :) <3

[TheChopsinator]

@moeonline97 If this were the case, only best-selling novelists would critique novels (how would they have the time?), and only Top 10 music artists could critique other successful music artists. It doesn't take a highly-trained Anything to see this woman can dance her ass off, yet still be distracted by her arms. I have no idea whether it's good, bad, or in-between, but her arms distracted my eye.

[PixieGirl778]

...I like her turns when her hands are on her waist but...they look off, even if they are russian fouettes.

[bobbyjustbobby1]

not bad



[theball3rina]

The guys fouettes were pretty amazing too!

[deenibeeni]

Her arms don't seem very...energized.

[aaagosta]

36!!

[Wojtekpis]

She is great but she hasn't got the dignity. Only Natalia Osipova has got it.

[Kikiomme]

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiin legs ._.

[DMarie0824]

Dance companies have realized that there is nothing wrong with hyperextended legs. There are many misconceptions about hyperextended legs. As far as the fouettes, shes trained in Russia... there's are different. Just like @GREATballetDANCER mentioned in her comment.

[taisbbotelho]

ela é perfeita!!não tem nenhuma bailarina que se compare a ela!!!ela faz um maravilhoso trabalho!!

[crzymaya]

aybody else think its sort of sickly that her legs are so hyperextended they go above the tutu?

[Lucyballet1994]

Wish people wouldn't criticize this great artist and focus on the positives, she's like prima ballerina of the world right now!

[re2dance]

Although she did a good job I have to agree with the majority here. Here arms and hands need some work. I think it looks weird because her fouettes are just going straight to the side and not front side.

[GREATballetDANCER]

@re2dance because these are russian fouettes (in Moiseyeva's method), not the regular (royal) fouettes that you are used to see (in which the leg opens at the front and goes to the side) ........ that's why they look so strange to you

[re2dance]

@GREATballetDANCER I knew there was something different. As I said above she did a good job but I think I prefer the "royal method" as you pointed out. There's something more fluid about it. Or could be that I prefer it because it is what I studied and am used to seeing. I'm going to try practicing the "Moiseyeva's method." I wonder if one is more difficult than the other? Thanks for cluing me in.

Unfortunately I'm still not a fan of her arms in first position.

[ikerovich]

@re2dance I'm sorry if I bother to write it here, just try to be more objective in my comments and do not try to discredit anyone, I love the Russian school and many of his positions I defend myself because I was trained in it, but I think a criticism aimed at the improvement thereof, may be productive for everyone, not only enticed into the same childish comments

ohhhhhhhhh guauuuuuu saying, not this great ???!!!. There as they see ciao!

[ikerovich]

Another great Russian ballerina makes thirty-two in the Western-style fouettes at the coda of "Black Swan" is Mezenzeva, recreates the staggering perfectly and not very characteristic of Russian foutte each plie and releve running who loks so clumsy...

[freakyretriever]

@re2dance Ummm... RAD fouettes go front side, Vagonova go straight to the side, its the russian way of fouettes

[agariniza]

@re2dance who are we to critisize Zakharova's dance?.......she is stunning...

[piscatorian648]

@re2dance That's because most of us are used to front side, but there are styles in which they plié side only, no ronde des jambes.

[theball3rina]

@re2dance It's supposed to be like that. These are the russian fouettas and are extremely difficult.

[avesraggiana]

@theball3rina They are difficult, and they also don’t look good on everybody. They definitely don’t look good on Zakharova. On the other hand, Natalia Makarova did them the same way and she was about the farthest thing from a natural turner - The Greatest Ballerina Who Could Not Turn - but her mechanical action in these Russian fouettes have a smoothness and polish about them that Zakharova is lacking.

[littlemermaid103]

@re2dance oh shut the fuck up.

[EmiiLarks]

@re2dance There's different styles of fouettes. Thats a russian style they do that so they can more turns.

[1497mari]

@snowleapard89

don't criticize svetlana, cos I bet you couldn't do that x

[snowleopard89]

The chicken arms and gymnast hands ruined it for me.

[jgrove2000]

@snowleopard89 chickens don't have arms.

[hervelie]

I don't like her fouettés...Very stranges legs..

[SiSi325]

@hervelie It's 'cause her legs are hyperextended, so the extended one looks really short.

[TaylorNicoleCollins]

i think its the arms.... in both her first and second theyre so high..... ESPECIALLY for vaganova technique..

[ersteerste]

she has too high arches to be really perfect in fouettes - too hard to keep balance. as a result she looks weak. and - she is not kitri at all. p.s. but of course she's a phenomenon and one of the greatest ballet stars.

[alannathelioness1]

what is with his flexed foot at the beginning....

[ballettgirl09]

 Unbelievable *-*

[gocciacqua]

Svetlana is... totally perfect!!!!

[DanzarePerSempre]

@miam176 They're Grishko Vaganova!!

[DanzarePerSempre]

O.O

[miam176]

Does anyone knows the brand of her shoes please ? 

[ballerinababe901]

Don Q?

[nATaLiEGee97]

iv figured it out! the legwork is amazing BUT the arms are weak and very un-kitri and sometimes she sits in her hips too much. but other than that you have to say they are amazing! (:

[88888Di88888]

Svetlana may be AMAZING but her fouettes are NOT... just see Tamara Rojo and Marianela Nuñez, they kick Svetlana's skinny ass in fouettes! I know Svetlana is an ICON, and yes i love her too, but that doesn't mean she's perfect...

[Missnewyork28]

@88888Di88888 Really ? You do sound bitter. Svetlana's fouettes are still more expressive, more controlled and faster. She is not off music, at least..

[Missnewyork28]

She has such beautiful fouettes !!

[XyourcutebabbyX]

I dont think these ar regualr i think there russian because in russian you do kinda grand ba ma to the side insted of goign form the front to the side so yeah

[MlleOdilette]

@XyourcutebabbyX - is that supposed to be English?

[ariadna2790]

nome gustan sus fouttes, es decir ella es perfecta y lo hace genial pero no se, tal vez el hecho de que tiene las piernas muy largas hace que se vea un poco extraño

[aprilthrusday]

really good but not amazing. Fouettes are so hard to do there are few ballerinas who can make them look graceful. It's not a matter of technique either, it's just some people can do pretty fouettes and others can't.

[plie1996]

perfect



[21tuttut]

they look funny cuz her knees hyperextend 

[chamuda610]

She's a great dancer, we all know, but I don't like how she KICKS her leg out.

[Dudagrillo]

I think her arms are too high.

[sggidlyrehc]

I'm not sure why I don't like the fouettes...

[littlelottedaae]

@sggidlyrehc I think the fouettes are perfect, but the problem is she is not Kitri, she didn't get into the character!

[Annevienne]

@sggidlyrehc

because here arms are quite strange in first position and her right leg opens in second almost too perfectly!

[BroadwayGirl131]

@sggidlyrehc its probably cuz the way she does fouettes she goes out and immediatly back in, she doesn't a full half circle around.

[rosalierox247]

@sggidlyrehc me either, actually. they look weird... maybe it's because she's going straight side instead of front side. And it looks like her foot is just kinda flicking out there. And her arms are really high when she goes for the passe... its just awkward lol

[MadsterShamwow]

@sggidlyrehc I know right she does them oddly... putting her leg straight to seconde

[jglove988]

@sggidlyrehc Same. It's because they are not smooth. they are very choppy and staccato. Not particularly pleasing to the eyes. lol

[thach0x0]

She is the best in the world today.

[ILoveFriedFetus]

@thach0x0 wow, you obviously dont follow the world of professional ballet if you think she's the best dancer of today's times. seriously.

[GREATballetDANCER]

@ILoveFriedFetus well ... you obviously are retarded !!!

[woaibailewo]

@ILoveFriedFetus Why isn't she? Along with Vishneva, Osipova, and Semionova, she dominates the ballet world and almost every young dancer dreams of being half as good as she and the others mentioned are.

[Tuttyfruti15]

Amazing!!!!!

[09Jerzy]

Beautiful!!!!!