there can be so many other skaters performing this kind of music with really difficult technical elements, fast skaters that hit every single move with pinpoint accuracy, but again; to see how she relates to her music and becomes one with it in the middle of the program, that I don't think I will ever see again.
She's a great skater but as for her conveyance of the emotions she is horrible. Smiling and flapping you arms around like a bimbo does nothing to represent Odette. This doesn't even compare to Marianela or Semionova or Guillem.
@minitay12: IDIOT! Baul is NOT a trained ballet dancer being directed by a ballet artistic director.... she's a skater that HAS CHOSEN Swan Lake to perform to.....
@jimmm7339ki3456 I agree 100-percent. It is a brilliant composition, and the story of Swan Lake is as beautiful as it is almost haunted. And sadly, there are a lot of people who don't understand why Swan Lake was used as the introduction music to the original Dracula (?1931) movie.
Simply brilliant music by one of the best Russian composers, skated wonderfully by a Ukrainian skater
@jimmm7339ki3456 Swan Lake is my all time favorites and Tchaikovsky is indeed the best Russian composer. Second would be Prokofiev and his Romeo and Juliet Montegues and Capulets. In my opinion both pieces convey the danger/and beauty of the scenes. I agee with you on the composers. I know some dismiss French impressionists but I love Faure--especially In Paradisum
Thcaikovsky's probably my favorite composer ever----Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker Suite! Are there any more beautiful or inspiring pieces of music? I think not! ^__^ And Oksana skated beautifully to his work!
I appreciate and enjoy skating but here the grinning, arm-flapping, ridiculous 'tip'toeing' and waste of classical ballet music which was written specifically for elegant ballet dancers (who can use the intricate rythms, express emotions tell a story and so) is a travsety. Skating 10 points, Artistic interpretaton zero.
@Cordine09 Have to disagree with you. PT wrote for ballet (has a vast dance vocabulary, mime, charcacter & national as well as classical) in the full knowledge & expecatation his music with its emotional content, complex rhythms & so on would not be 'wasted' - which it always is when non-ballet dancers extract bits of it. But the worst offender is the Chines Circus - brilliant contortionists and acrobats but criminally wasted and chopped-up SW music. Does no-one write music JUST for skaters?
thank you so much, i saw this when i was 15 now im 16 and it inspired me so much i am able to be in compititions to the point where im the youngest in them<3 you are truely inspiring.
@mvy2k I agree 100%. She is magical on the ice...sensual, musical and just breathtaking to watch. You can't take your eyes off of her! I'm shocked that a lot of her You Tube performances have so few views. Has she been forgotten already? As Scott Hamilton said once during her performance, "She never even has to leave the ice." in reference to the fact that her movement alone was enough.
@mvy2k I agree again. My favorite performances of hers include swan lake, the Sade song from 1994 Ice Wars, a spanish number where she wore a black dress and big red flower, another spanish number to a Madonna song (orangy/red dress with polka dots) and the kind of middle eastern type song where she held that little light. Her music choices were always great. She was IMO the best female figure skater of all time.
Crap attempt at pretending to be swan-like. Big thighs, big bum sticking - not elegant. Looks like a turtle at the end.Wrong body type for ballet. Skaters don't use a lot of the muscles dancers do - boots make it impossible. Only elegant skater ever was the late John Curry.
@MrKLT1945 please.... read your comment again and go jump off a cliff. To be a sucessful skater you MUST PRACTICE BALLET for ages. At least Russians do it this way that is why they have the best ballet school and skaters in the world. Morons like you who do not appriciate the talent like this are just sore losers and full of complexes. Go get therapy.
@Ouija121085 Nice to know really intelligent ppl capable of adult debate still exist. Must apologise for having own opinions which if different to yours mean I'm a loser. So logic says YOU must be a great winner! Meaningless cliches from you. With your reliance on therapy I think you must be writing from years of experience of it. Just keep taking the tablets dear.P.s. I love what skaters do that CAN'T be done elsewhere.
@MrKLT1945 hey, i usually really like ur comments and toootally agree with them (especially about the whole NP shit) but i think that was kind of harsh ... she's not trying to do ballet, she's doing her on-ice-interpretation of the white swan (for her mother who loved that ballet from what i heard) . i agree it will NEVER be as great as the ballet which is the most amazing and concrete interpretation of that music but i still dont think u should diss on her ... and she's not fat by the way ...
I think it's lovely how she's combined ice skating with ballet. I'd like to see some ballerina's try some ice skating moves on stage - let alone ballet at such speed! Although I really can't say much - both are incredibly difficult.
@quidwitch I think Katherine Healey handled the switch from ballet to skating very well. She didn't have the speed of Oksana, but she did have a more beautiful body line imho.
@melissalina123 While I do respect your opinion...I would like you to check out "Oksana Baiul-The Swan- Olympics Exhibition Gala 1994" posted by erdeepspace and let me know what you think...the video on this page doesn't do justice to this routine...but on the post I mentioned,I think you will see the real Oksana Baiul.
@Harmonyww WOOW how about you devote your time to doing something more productive or impressive than watching a legend of a skater on youtube i see it is OBVIOUSLY a waste of time to you.
NO NO NO!!!!! Saint-saens DID NOT COMPOSE ANY MUSIC IN SWAN LAKE!!!!!!!!!!! that is 'The Swan' from Carnival of the Animals!!!!!!!!! NOT SWAN LAKE!!! dude, get your facts straight before you start anouncing stuff.
I want to skate to this... I have always wanted to skate to this. This just makes me want to more. When I listen to this music I feel like the music isn't about the happiness one feels whil in love, its about those moments that make love love. Its the sadness and the happiness and the struggle... and I wonder, will I ever get that?
wow! she can do her backwards crossovers likes its nothing. It took me FOREVER to learn them! and so did the 3-turn. she does her 3-turns perfectly! Can't wait to be just like her! :)
I think the choreography is F*** AWESOME, and so is the skater, she's great here. Yet I have to say Swan Lake does not match this choreography (and I personally think Swan Lake doesnt go for ice skating at all) ...however she did a great job!
Beautiful music, and such a beautiful ice skating performance. Oksana is the loviest of skaters, or at least she was when she was younger. Too bad she started doing "modern" skate instead of the traditional , such as this performance.
It's no wonder she has a gold medal. All figure skaters should aspire to Oksana's level.
Simply remarkable! Perhaps the greatest, from an artistic, emotional, and aesthetic perspective, single ice skating performance of all time! Her obvious pleasure in her own physical vitality and movements only heightens, by contrast, the sadness she conveys through her choreography, which highlights the tragic nature of the beautiful music.
simply remarkable -- perhaps the greatest artistic / aesthetic ice skating performance ever, and especially so because of the clear contrast between her vitality and pleasure in her movement, and the sadness she and the music convey.
позитивность!!! улыбка!!! Да, оксана баюл запомниться надолго, но как жаль, что так недолго она была в любительском спорте, а профи мы не всегда видим,увы!!!
The commentator made an error in fact here. She didn't skate to Swan Lake by Saint-Saens. Camille Saint-Saens wrote "The Swan" from his Carnival of the Animals sketches. Swan Lake was a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky. Very different pieces. One is an entire ballet, the other is just a 3 minute sketch.
and Pavlova made a short solo ballet entitled "the dying swan" on the music of Saint-Saëns, which all the great ballerinas have done, and this routine is strongly based on Pavlova's choreography.
Laughingtiger17 said it all. The ballet far surpasses this. Funny how she imitated bourrees at the beginning. HA! I know the work that goes into both, as a current ballet dancer and a former ice skater. I prefer ballet.
Obviously, you've never bourree'd on ice, let alone done anything of at least World Championship standard. Doing ballet steps like a bourree on ice is harder than on pointe. For your info, Oksana skated her short program to Swan Lake in memory of her dead mother because she loved the ballet so much. Her mum wanted Oksana to become a ballerina but she couldn't cause she was too chubby as a child and then, Oksana promised her mum she would skate to Swan Lake.
Well, i have bouree'd on ice, or something like it, and yeah, its really hard. I'm sorry and i realize i was being an uneducated, biased jerk and i didn't mean to offend you. that story is beautiful. And i find it sick that she couldn't do ballet because she was "chubby". Quality of anything you do shouldn't matter on weight, that's just wrong.
@KissOfCyanide Sorry but you don't understand how hard it is to pull up in bourees and ballet things that cannot be repeated by any other than a trained dancer
@KissOfCyanide i wouldnt say its harder than en pointe because youve got the pick to stand on.... where as en pointe is just balance on the block.... but i can see its still wayyyyyy hard... shes amazing! i love swan lake and this routine!
@JohnneyCoolguy ballet does not far surpass ice skating, being a professional ice skater involves 10 times the risks then ballet because a a trip or fall while performing one of those dangerous tricks can easily give you a head concussion. it takes a lot more courage to get on ice than into a pair of point shoes.
there can be so many other skaters performing this kind of music with really difficult technical elements, fast skaters that hit every single move with pinpoint accuracy, but again; to see how she relates to her music and becomes one with it in the middle of the program, that I don't think I will ever see again.
najurinajuri 1 week ago 2
this...is incredibly amazing.
XellenscaredypantsX 1 week ago
am i going mad, or is the music a bit weird and patchy?
missmalfoy221 2 weeks ago
This rendition of Tchaikovsky's music, apart from Baiul's choreographic dexterity, is superb!
Atramentumink 1 month ago
Uplifting!
Atramentumink 1 month ago
i cant even skate without a walker x-x
katiemollyhaley 1 month ago
She's a great skater but as for her conveyance of the emotions she is horrible. Smiling and flapping you arms around like a bimbo does nothing to represent Odette. This doesn't even compare to Marianela or Semionova or Guillem.
minitay12 1 month ago
@minitay12: IDIOT! Baul is NOT a trained ballet dancer being directed by a ballet artistic director.... she's a skater that HAS CHOSEN Swan Lake to perform to.....
IDIOTS on the internet.....
lukebccb 1 month ago
WOW AMAZING!
coolfann1 1 month ago
elle a louper aucun de c'est saut wouaww bravo
lavielamort1 1 month ago
oh dear lord...she is magnificent...
ViciousMinius 1 month ago
Tchaikovsky music make you perform like that.
Salameh84 2 months ago 4
@Salameh84
Tchaikovsky was the god of Romantic era music.
Serena2009ification 1 month ago
All very beautiful
dziabong15 2 months ago 2
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legioru 2 months ago
best figure skating chereography ever
NoSuchThing2009 3 months ago
anybody know what her song is called??
spencifulluver 3 months ago
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Salameh84 2 months ago
Whoever doesn't like this masterpiece is nuts in the head. This is one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed.
jimmm7339ki3456 4 months ago 14
@jimmm7339ki3456 I agree 100-percent. It is a brilliant composition, and the story of Swan Lake is as beautiful as it is almost haunted. And sadly, there are a lot of people who don't understand why Swan Lake was used as the introduction music to the original Dracula (?1931) movie.
Simply brilliant music by one of the best Russian composers, skated wonderfully by a Ukrainian skater
keliata 3 months ago
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jimmm7339ki3456 3 months ago
@jimmm7339ki3456 Swan Lake is my all time favorites and Tchaikovsky is indeed the best Russian composer. Second would be Prokofiev and his Romeo and Juliet Montegues and Capulets. In my opinion both pieces convey the danger/and beauty of the scenes. I agee with you on the composers. I know some dismiss French impressionists but I love Faure--especially In Paradisum
keliata 3 months ago
@jimmm7339ki3456 oh, and how could I forget Ludwig Minkus and Don Quixote, Kitri Variation.
keliata 3 months ago
@jimmm7339ki3456
Thcaikovsky's probably my favorite composer ever----Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker Suite! Are there any more beautiful or inspiring pieces of music? I think not! ^__^ And Oksana skated beautifully to his work!
Serena2009ification 1 month ago
Grandioso, llena los sentidos y agita el corazón.
098887502 4 months ago
que lindo!
pi88lun 4 months ago
she did like 8,000 crossovers
TheFigureskaterr 4 months ago
0:47 that triple was truly amazing
TheAsianChibi 4 months ago
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TheAsianChibi 4 months ago
How can anyone not like this???
keliata 5 months ago
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jimmm7339ki3456 4 months ago
I appreciate and enjoy skating but here the grinning, arm-flapping, ridiculous 'tip'toeing' and waste of classical ballet music which was written specifically for elegant ballet dancers (who can use the intricate rythms, express emotions tell a story and so) is a travsety. Skating 10 points, Artistic interpretaton zero.
MrKLT1945 5 months ago
@MrKLT1945 There's a Swan Lake on Ice production at the moment, such beautiful music shouldn't be kept to one genre if possible.
Cordine09 4 months ago
@Cordine09 Have to disagree with you. PT wrote for ballet (has a vast dance vocabulary, mime, charcacter & national as well as classical) in the full knowledge & expecatation his music with its emotional content, complex rhythms & so on would not be 'wasted' - which it always is when non-ballet dancers extract bits of it. But the worst offender is the Chines Circus - brilliant contortionists and acrobats but criminally wasted and chopped-up SW music. Does no-one write music JUST for skaters?
MrKLT1945 4 months ago
Wow! This is so beautiful how she do that I will give her the 10 highest points!
EuropeSkiess 5 months ago
thank you so much, i saw this when i was 15 now im 16 and it inspired me so much i am able to be in compititions to the point where im the youngest in them<3 you are truely inspiring.
crystalpolorbear 5 months ago 2
Skater women are easily some of the most beautiful of any generation.
thesIeepywiIIow 5 months ago
She glided exquisitely across the ice like a regal swan.
filipbong 5 months ago
beautifull
oliveirachrist 6 months ago
She's a good skater, but as for the grace and emotion that a ballerina has in this variation, Oksana needs work.
Ebonyeyes647 6 months ago
wow
hambrick1972 7 months ago 2
i almost cried at the end :'(( sooo beautiful <3
sundayxafternoon 8 months ago 3
Beautiful music , wonderful skater......simply the best
sismael 8 months ago 3
nobody ever, BEFORE and AFTER, skated more beautiful than this Creature !!!"
mvy2k 8 months ago 29
@mvy2k I agree 100%. She is magical on the ice...sensual, musical and just breathtaking to watch. You can't take your eyes off of her! I'm shocked that a lot of her You Tube performances have so few views. Has she been forgotten already? As Scott Hamilton said once during her performance, "She never even has to leave the ice." in reference to the fact that her movement alone was enough.
lavergne100 1 week ago
@lavergne100 Thanx for your comment.
Such a performer in any area is a God's gift and we are lucky watching Oksana!!!
By the way she and I from the same beautiful Odessa port-city in Ukraine.
The heart of the city desighned by italian and french architects.
The city has one of the world's best opera building, famous Potjomkin steps (192 steps) etc. It worth to find city images on internet!
mvy2k 1 week ago
@mvy2k I agree again. My favorite performances of hers include swan lake, the Sade song from 1994 Ice Wars, a spanish number where she wore a black dress and big red flower, another spanish number to a Madonna song (orangy/red dress with polka dots) and the kind of middle eastern type song where she held that little light. Her music choices were always great. She was IMO the best female figure skater of all time.
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mvy2k 8 months ago
very beutifoul!!!!
ritamorgado44 9 months ago
Stunning :D
XxMelinaxMallisaxX 9 months ago
She's absoluetly stunning! :D
XxMelinaxMallisaxX 9 months ago
I'm surprised of how entranced I was while watching that. That was beautiful, and as the dance progressed, got so much more intense.
solelymyself 9 months ago
beautifull she is a gr8 sk8ter
popsiclepenguin1 9 months ago
I'd tap...
cwbyfan223 9 months ago
um... Odette seems to be very happy of becoming a swan....
sharon3902 9 months ago
@sharon3902 lol apparently she doesn't really know how to act to be like odette. she has great skills though for a skater.
TheChaiTeaLatte 9 months ago
Crap attempt at pretending to be swan-like. Big thighs, big bum sticking - not elegant. Looks like a turtle at the end.Wrong body type for ballet. Skaters don't use a lot of the muscles dancers do - boots make it impossible. Only elegant skater ever was the late John Curry.
MrKLT1945 10 months ago
@MrKLT1945 please.... read your comment again and go jump off a cliff. To be a sucessful skater you MUST PRACTICE BALLET for ages. At least Russians do it this way that is why they have the best ballet school and skaters in the world. Morons like you who do not appriciate the talent like this are just sore losers and full of complexes. Go get therapy.
Ouija121085 9 months ago
@Ouija121085 Nice to know really intelligent ppl capable of adult debate still exist. Must apologise for having own opinions which if different to yours mean I'm a loser. So logic says YOU must be a great winner! Meaningless cliches from you. With your reliance on therapy I think you must be writing from years of experience of it. Just keep taking the tablets dear.P.s. I love what skaters do that CAN'T be done elsewhere.
MrKLT1945 9 months ago
@MrKLT1945 hey, i usually really like ur comments and toootally agree with them (especially about the whole NP shit) but i think that was kind of harsh ... she's not trying to do ballet, she's doing her on-ice-interpretation of the white swan (for her mother who loved that ballet from what i heard) . i agree it will NEVER be as great as the ballet which is the most amazing and concrete interpretation of that music but i still dont think u should diss on her ... and she's not fat by the way ...
FyreBalletDancer 9 months ago 3
@FyreBalletDancer
the swan lake dance in ballet or on-ice interpretation is quite hard. I agree with you.
whitesongs73 8 months ago 2
She should've gone to Vaganova or the Bolshoi academies and become a ballet dancer where her talents would've been better appreciated.
lukebccb 10 months ago
love song!
guillfer09 10 months ago
i absolutely LOVE her!!!
marie91blackplanet 10 months ago
She's Beautful *_____*
MsStella99 10 months ago
Hey commentators, stfu.
mossintervention 10 months ago
@ilovpointeshoes97 are you BLIND?
sakura0830 10 months ago
did she win? it was soo beautiful...
sakura0830 10 months ago
@quidwitch Besides don't you think that dancing on your toes is REALLY hard? :)
ballarinoula95 10 months ago
@quidwitch Ballet isn't easy... if you think the oposite then you haven't really tried it yet!!
I'm a dancer and I've tried ice-skating... It's not that hard, if you keep working it!!
ballarinoula95 10 months ago
she's awesome..)
gawl3in 11 months ago
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AliceCrok 11 months ago
Amazing !
pinklady051 11 months ago
Superb technique, marvelous feeling
140895 11 months ago
She didnt grow the black feathers and wings like Natalie Portman though
joebriggs7 11 months ago 4
PERFECT!
fantasyfair2009 11 months ago
PERFETC!
fantasyfair2009 11 months ago
I teared up. That was incredibly beautiful.
talon1824 11 months ago
I think it's lovely how she's combined ice skating with ballet. I'd like to see some ballerina's try some ice skating moves on stage - let alone ballet at such speed! Although I really can't say much - both are incredibly difficult.
quidwitch 11 months ago 2
@quidwitch I think Katherine Healey handled the switch from ballet to skating very well. She didn't have the speed of Oksana, but she did have a more beautiful body line imho.
nightswimmer99 11 months ago
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This is awful!
iluvpointeshoes97 11 months ago
@iluvpointeshoes97 I want to see you doing this on ice...and then we talk about wheter this is awful or not
sanaeka 11 months ago 2
@iluvpointeshoes97 what???? did you watch the same vidoe as everyone else?
triptoheaveandho 11 months ago
she glides just like a swan :)
10iheartdancing 1 year ago
omg I do ballet and I would love to ice skate!!
cpayne4ever 1 year ago
I almost cried.
Billythachikk 1 year ago
perhaps the most beautifil piece of music ever written
aqx770 1 year ago 11
wow...the most amazing performance on ice i've ever seen
andromeda110591 1 year ago 55
@andromeda110591 yu na kim is WAY better
melissalina123 7 months ago
@melissalina123 While I do respect your opinion...I would like you to check out "Oksana Baiul-The Swan- Olympics Exhibition Gala 1994" posted by erdeepspace and let me know what you think...the video on this page doesn't do justice to this routine...but on the post I mentioned,I think you will see the real Oksana Baiul.
1dallasmetalgirl 5 months ago
That was beautiful
illwill8206 1 year ago
The best
ktabbas1 1 year ago
Does someone know ?
When did she play it ?
tasamu 1 year ago
What a waste of time skating is. They could at least devote their time to something that's productive or impressive.
Harmonyww 1 year ago
@Harmonyww You have got to be the most ignorant person on the earth.
JesLynMon 1 year ago 4
@JesLynMon Why do you say that?
Harmonyww 1 year ago
@Harmonyww yeah, like ice hockey! lol
coventrygardens 1 year ago
@Harmonyww WOOW how about you devote your time to doing something more productive or impressive than watching a legend of a skater on youtube i see it is OBVIOUSLY a waste of time to you.
DIDICOYFUL 1 year ago 2
@DIDICOYFUL Well done. You can read. Did your comment actually have a point? Or were you just repeating what I said?
Harmonyww 1 year ago
hate the bourees
Sara112889 1 year ago
After watching this so many times as ballet, she seems a little ungraceful...still, just amazing talent.
thecurledfreckle 1 year ago
Chazz Michael Michael Girl : )
Blestboy13 1 year ago
I loved her bourrées in the beginning :) I'm glad she knows how to do swan arms
OmGiTsHoPeY 1 year ago
Wish the commentator would have shut up at the beginning of the video. Especially not called the composer "Cheekovsky"
gecmartins 1 year ago 4
She's an excellent skater, but she doesn't seem graceful enough...
TheFoxyZombie 1 year ago
i talked to her on the phone once! lol it was, pretty cool
wewachywachy 1 year ago
NO NO NO!!!!! Saint-saens DID NOT COMPOSE ANY MUSIC IN SWAN LAKE!!!!!!!!!!! that is 'The Swan' from Carnival of the Animals!!!!!!!!! NOT SWAN LAKE!!! dude, get your facts straight before you start anouncing stuff.
DaisytheDancer 1 year ago 3
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SHE SUCKS!
adrianafrancesca 1 year ago
At 1.18, Oksana's is effortless, magical in her interpretation, a symbiosis with the music......so emotional, brings tears to one's eyes....
FrenchExpat1 1 year ago
mooi gedaan,schitterend
20istanbul10 1 year ago
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arkadnik1 1 year ago
shes so faaat!!!
iuuuu!!
loReeBaLletera 1 year ago
@loReeBaLletera ....
are you're serious?
XxMcFlyAngelxX 1 year ago
@loReeBaLletera You're kidding right?
TheFoxyZombie 1 year ago
@loReeBaLletera chuuuuuut
FyreBalletDancer 1 year ago
OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!
zwinkygirl789 1 year ago
I want to skate to this... I have always wanted to skate to this. This just makes me want to more. When I listen to this music I feel like the music isn't about the happiness one feels whil in love, its about those moments that make love love. Its the sadness and the happiness and the struggle... and I wonder, will I ever get that?
Tuxedomask3edward1 1 year ago 2
Has anyone seen the movie about her life?
It is just so incredible and she is so beautiful!
My mom love's iceskating and I used to dance ballet..
I feel like I'm going to cry when I watch this, childhood memories..
I really regret I stopped dancing or didn't start with iceskating!!!!
ohkrasavica 1 year ago
Beautiful.
rbcatlover17806 1 year ago
It`s amazing ! ; o
ArmastusHobused 1 year ago
I like this definitely more than ballet .. Beautiful!!
nevimzevim 1 year ago
She's amazing, but it didnt flow for me ... it feels so much right in Ballet and it was akward for me .... shes great tho ...
FyreBalletDancer 1 year ago 3
...mY Fav music, to an increbidle performance! =D
JozeCancun 1 year ago
Watching this along with the music has given me goosebumps: amazing!!!
marerahappy 1 year ago
thats amazing .. its already hard to balance on ice and she was perfect :O i can only admire .. cause i'm speachless :)
pinkbutterfly93 1 year ago
that was enchanting :D
Stagringleap 1 year ago
wish theycould lose the commentaters
matthewpirnie 1 year ago 71
made me smile :) beautiful
jahlove111 1 year ago
wonderful...she is amazing....i love her.
ricardopalma2009 1 year ago
Look at that flexibility..imagine what she could do in bed :D
Thecuregalore94 1 year ago
wow! she can do her backwards crossovers likes its nothing. It took me FOREVER to learn them! and so did the 3-turn. she does her 3-turns perfectly! Can't wait to be just like her! :)
Aimeewinterfun2 1 year ago
It is a butiful daNCE AND I LIKE THEMUSIC
MsAbba1990 1 year ago
not of this is that difficult to do.
meiro00102 1 year ago
"I love Oksana. She is so beautiful and her skating (when good) breathless." Just wish we could watch her more today.
lewis3265 1 year ago
whats colder than dry ice? ill tell you what is...oksana
love that film
vkcherry 1 year ago
She seems a little...stiff>.>
GothIAm17 1 year ago
good dance and jump!!!
FrankaThe87 1 year ago
good dance
FrankaThe87 1 year ago
I would like to do her wearing the ice skates
goldcoastlawyer 1 year ago
wonderful!!! *-*
HopePrincess7 1 year ago
I think the choreography is F*** AWESOME, and so is the skater, she's great here. Yet I have to say Swan Lake does not match this choreography (and I personally think Swan Lake doesnt go for ice skating at all) ...however she did a great job!
ithieldaer 1 year ago 2
Beautiful music, and such a beautiful ice skating performance. Oksana is the loviest of skaters, or at least she was when she was younger. Too bad she started doing "modern" skate instead of the traditional , such as this performance.
It's no wonder she has a gold medal. All figure skaters should aspire to Oksana's level.
basha417 1 year ago
Simply remarkable! Perhaps the greatest, from an artistic, emotional, and aesthetic perspective, single ice skating performance of all time! Her obvious pleasure in her own physical vitality and movements only heightens, by contrast, the sadness she conveys through her choreography, which highlights the tragic nature of the beautiful music.
freeunion 1 year ago
simply remarkable -- perhaps the greatest artistic / aesthetic ice skating performance ever, and especially so because of the clear contrast between her vitality and pleasure in her movement, and the sadness she and the music convey.
freeunion 1 year ago
Ukraine is the best!!!!!!!!!!!
taras1111 1 year ago
талантище!!!!
неповторимая пластика!!!
позитивность!!! улыбка!!! Да, оксана баюл запомниться надолго, но как жаль, что так недолго она была в любительском спорте, а профи мы не всегда видим,увы!!!
Dizumiko 1 year ago
I ♥ that jump at 0:57 !
SlovakBallerina 1 year ago
I like her coreography but..that song has some intense parts that she ignored. I think she should had put more axes although it she is very delicate.
Beatdoown 1 year ago
Es fabulosa!
cisnenegro3 1 year ago
okay, she mite have been smiling~ But her ice-skating looks sad(like wanting something) cuz im do ballet and ice-stake and I know the difference
47Candyfloss 1 year ago
@47Candyfloss
where is problem? go and take olympic gold medal.
y3623951 1 year ago
When she skates it really looks like shes a swan
Ballerina2010dk 1 year ago
One of the most amazing visions on ice! She is so forever!
wendyverdades 1 year ago
oksana baiul died on the day of my birth, a star is taken yet a star is born. here i come world! hahahahaah joax.
Kriiddy 1 year ago
het is zo mooi
pskoopman 1 year ago 2
wow,she's beautiful
PaulThePuppetier 1 year ago
THe one on ice is harder than ballet, right?
12enma12 1 year ago
This is amazing!!! So beautiful! I prefer ballet though
Isobelle94 1 year ago 2
ice skating is ballet of the ice... beautiful!
myhamsterable 1 year ago
とてもすばらしい！まるで白鳥が舞い降りたかのよう！エクセレント！
michellebro1 1 year ago
The commentator made an error in fact here. She didn't skate to Swan Lake by Saint-Saens. Camille Saint-Saens wrote "The Swan" from his Carnival of the Animals sketches. Swan Lake was a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky. Very different pieces. One is an entire ballet, the other is just a 3 minute sketch.
ShamusMacGuffin 1 year ago 2
and Pavlova made a short solo ballet entitled "the dying swan" on the music of Saint-Saëns, which all the great ballerinas have done, and this routine is strongly based on Pavlova's choreography.
wattever333 1 year ago
Saint Seans piece was the dying Swan not Swan Lake. Two very different pieces. As for her skating it is very moving.
nestersg 1 year ago
Oh she's so beautiful, and she looks so much healthier here. I'm so happy to see her skate so well!
italianjen29 1 year ago
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JohnneyCoolguy 1 year ago
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JohnneyCoolguy 1 year ago
Laughingtiger17 said it all. The ballet far surpasses this. Funny how she imitated bourrees at the beginning. HA! I know the work that goes into both, as a current ballet dancer and a former ice skater. I prefer ballet.
JohnneyCoolguy 1 year ago
Obviously, you've never bourree'd on ice, let alone done anything of at least World Championship standard. Doing ballet steps like a bourree on ice is harder than on pointe. For your info, Oksana skated her short program to Swan Lake in memory of her dead mother because she loved the ballet so much. Her mum wanted Oksana to become a ballerina but she couldn't cause she was too chubby as a child and then, Oksana promised her mum she would skate to Swan Lake.
And she did and she won.
KissOfCyanide 1 year ago 79
Well, i have bouree'd on ice, or something like it, and yeah, its really hard. I'm sorry and i realize i was being an uneducated, biased jerk and i didn't mean to offend you. that story is beautiful. And i find it sick that she couldn't do ballet because she was "chubby". Quality of anything you do shouldn't matter on weight, that's just wrong.
JohnneyCoolguy 1 year ago
and those deleted comments were attempts to reply on my ipod touch, not an angry tirade that i deleted! ahaha sorry
JohnneyCoolguy 1 year ago
@KissOfCyanide bourres on ice arnt that hard .... :S
FyreBalletDancer 1 year ago
@KissOfCyanide Sorry but you don't understand how hard it is to pull up in bourees and ballet things that cannot be repeated by any other than a trained dancer
kawaiipapillon 1 year ago
@KissOfCyanide i wouldnt say its harder than en pointe because youve got the pick to stand on.... where as en pointe is just balance on the block.... but i can see its still wayyyyyy hard... shes amazing! i love swan lake and this routine!
artyowen92 1 year ago
@JohnneyCoolguy ballet does not far surpass ice skating, being a professional ice skater involves 10 times the risks then ballet because a a trip or fall while performing one of those dangerous tricks can easily give you a head concussion. it takes a lot more courage to get on ice than into a pair of point shoes.
hgfjyrdetryu 1 year ago
what film does this music feature in, i know it is a russian spy film or german war film, where there is a traitor
Jameztrio1 1 year ago
@Jameztrio1 it is from Ana Karenina from Tolstoy,with Vivian Leigh,when se goes to the ballet performance and she watch with binoculars her lover.
zipora20 1 year ago
наши люди 6.0
lleklerk 1 year ago
that is just beautiful. no words can describe it.
becklimo4eva 1 year ago
WoW She is GooD!
sgravesmedical1 1 year ago 2
the most graceful and elegant skater ever lived!!!1
girlwithmouth 1 year ago 2