Esta bailarina es de las grandes del BNC que no pude disfrutar por estar fuera desde la decada de los 90 .pero su arte está a la par con el de Charin y otras grandes de la escula cubana de ballet es simplemente fnatastica
stop criticism, At the end what matters is that most of us enjoyed it. Was she the best Dying swan?, no I've seen better ones, but she was ok and I enjoyed it. End of the conversation.
Graceful, sublime part-de-bras, she convincingly expresses pain throughout her entire body: the agonizing cambre, the frustrated attempts to flight and her arms, her arms just took her away, beyond clouds, mountains and the sky.
en estos momentos es una de las mejores bailarinas del ballet nacional de cuba pero hay otra muy buenas tambien la bailarina completa buena no existe siempre cada una tiene su talon de aquiles pero la verdad que viengsay es bastante completa felicdades
however nothing like cuban's ballet they have this special unique tecnic with this special accento that make spec ial stamp and termination . period....
Russians technique is primitive and not so safe for dancers body.
Cubans are amazing....All credit to dictorship,people get tough and push themselves harder.Not that I like or agree with dictorship.
Thats one of the reasons even Russian dancer are gr8....But in the end they get paid less and get thrown of due 2 injury without any compensation...Sad...
Japan....actually funds for Japanese dancer to study abroad,they r wicked tho.Wait till they emerge.
Primitive? Just look at how may amazing dancers the Vaganova and Bolshoi Academies have produced. Some of the world's FINEST dancers are Russian-trained. I have only ever done the Russian technique but I have NEVER sustained any injuries before.
Even the Cuban technique taught by Alicia Alonso was influenced by the Bolshoi technique!
a estas alturas no importa quien invento la técnica! el fútbol lo inventaron los ingleses y el mejor equipo del mundo actuar es español! no por eso se le quita el mérito! es la mejor en la actualidad! si pensamos en el pasado no avanzaría el mundo! si que tenemos que tener conocimiento del pasado! pero cada vez el humano se supera mas y con el tiempo siempre salen mejores ya sean bailarines, músicos, deportistas, científicos...etc! saludos!
Por cierto, si no lo saben, Viengsay acaba de ser invitada a bailar Don Quijote al Mariinsky junto a Leonid Sarafanov. Despues de Alicia Alonso ella es la otra cubana que baila con una compañia rusa. Vamos que es una diva.
Viengsay is currently the best ballet dancer in Cuba and one of the bests in the international arena. Any company will be fortunate to have her as principal dancer. She has character and coloratura, technical bravura, impressing equilibrium and total domain of the pirouettes. Who cares if she is not undernourished or over-skinny when she can transmit so many profound emotions. Look at the Degas portraits of the Palais-Garnier ballerinas, she has the anatomy of the French ballerina of XIXeme .
This is a very strong performance. Yes, she is a powerful dancer and likes to show her technique. This performance was sublime, very inspired. She did not forgot for a minute that she was a dying swan, her port-des-bras were beautiful, her interpretation impeccable and yet very contemporaneous. I see ballet and the best ballet dancers regularly at the metropolitan, I know what I am saying. Her interpretation was spectacular, if you cannot see that then you do not know ballet, that's it.
hey now wait a minute... everyones entitled to their own opinion and actually abt dancers are not the best, the russians are way better watch the technique
betther than natalia makarova and betther than ulanova. the performance of viengsay valdez it´s too similar plisteskaya's performance. and that it´s good because she is a young girl and she is looking for the best school. looking at the plisteskaya she study. the performance of makarova is the worst. their hands are like a bird of ill omen not swan...
you know what, her arms are actually pretty good here. its kind of pointless to compare a 21st century dying swan to the early 20th century dying swans, theres no way that similar styles would be produced. maybe we can compare the 60s and 70s generation with now but def not earlier...i dont think. i wont comment on her ballet technique in this, (as it is always controversial) but i think her use of arms are VERY VERY strong and quality here. she's been doing lots of research i can tell!
There is too much technique nowadays. Look at Pavlova and Koralli they are more fluent and soft, they seem to feel the music, whereas nowadays dancer are too occupied with their technique. It is a pity.
This is indeed a "Mayaesque" adaptation. The soviet style of the piece. It would do V well to go back to the true original choreography of Fokine and watch the great ALICIA MARKOVA,interpret what Fokine wanted...especially the end as Markova her right hand resting on her foot drops it to the side upon death.
I'm a great admirer of Valdes' work, I've comment her beautiful line and amazine technique in other videos, but I didn't like this white swan. As a black swan, doing Alicia's coreography, she is perfect; but as a white swan I felt the lack of emotion and desperation requiered by this role. But I must say that her hands are very beautiful and soft.
This is a copy from plisteskaya's performance...i've seen her many times. I believe viengsay should be more original anda also more soft!! she's technically good but she's not representing the softness of this piece, and that's the most important part.
Did you see Vi's Swan Lake 2dn act? that is what i call perfection, even if you only look at her hands, I haven't seen many performances of Odile like that, hers is magnific, fascinating. The video is here. Her second act is better that many other primas. My respect for her work.
she needs to see the best Dying Swans from the great ballerinas, Plistskaya, Ulanova, Pavlova she seems very much alive, she lacks elegance in her movements
she is a perfectionist dancer, and one of the greater of her generation, I love her, but i think a better coreography will expose her more to the original line and suffering of a dying swan. It has to be a secuence of clean poses that stay on your mind like a slide show, hands away from the tutu, better angles of views. Each pose should be like a photo.
I agree in some of the issues that you mentioned and I believe her interpretationis very polished but to be frank Maya's interpretation of this piece is quite exceptional but she never transmit the suffering of the death. Is technical but not as interpretative as Ullanova and Pavlova of course
que maravilla, la mejor definitivamente
bravo viengsay!!! eres la mejor, me hiciste llorar con esa fabulosa presentacion
eres ese cisne, sigue volando
ktaballet 11 months ago
AMO SUS BRAZOS!
ella es tan expresiva
cuando baila una cubana, eso se nota!
ktaballet 1 year ago 2
her arms are absolutely amazing!!!! stunning!
prn4ustat 1 year ago
viengsay eres buenisima...fabulosa. no hagas caso de losa envidiosos como tu hay muy pocas. eres de las mejores bailarinas del mundo hoy en dia
nievecuqui 1 year ago
è bellissimo!!!!
phardframa 1 year ago
Que puedo decir no tengo palabras para expresar tanto arte,sencillamente lo maximo
kubano43 1 year ago
Esta bailarina es de las grandes del BNC que no pude disfrutar por estar fuera desde la decada de los 90 .pero su arte está a la par con el de Charin y otras grandes de la escula cubana de ballet es simplemente fnatastica
diazavalos1 1 year ago
stop criticism, At the end what matters is that most of us enjoyed it. Was she the best Dying swan?, no I've seen better ones, but she was ok and I enjoyed it. End of the conversation.
biscaynejc 2 years ago
Graceful, sublime part-de-bras, she convincingly expresses pain throughout her entire body: the agonizing cambre, the frustrated attempts to flight and her arms, her arms just took her away, beyond clouds, mountains and the sky.
CMGGOttawa 2 years ago 5
en estos momentos es una de las mejores bailarinas del ballet nacional de cuba pero hay otra muy buenas tambien la bailarina completa buena no existe siempre cada una tiene su talon de aquiles pero la verdad que viengsay es bastante completa felicdades
adriancardenas74 2 years ago
however nothing like cuban's ballet they have this special unique tecnic with this special accento that make spec ial stamp and termination . period....
42dicaprio 2 years ago
esas manos por dios!!! ese balance!!! UNA GROSA TOTAL
eldac024 2 years ago
Russians technique is primitive and not so safe for dancers body.
Cubans are amazing....All credit to dictorship,people get tough and push themselves harder.Not that I like or agree with dictorship.
Thats one of the reasons even Russian dancer are gr8....But in the end they get paid less and get thrown of due 2 injury without any compensation...Sad...
Japan....actually funds for Japanese dancer to study abroad,they r wicked tho.Wait till they emerge.
Cubans will still be my favourites,style
naanoneththara 2 years ago
Primitive? Just look at how may amazing dancers the Vaganova and Bolshoi Academies have produced. Some of the world's FINEST dancers are Russian-trained. I have only ever done the Russian technique but I have NEVER sustained any injuries before.
Even the Cuban technique taught by Alicia Alonso was influenced by the Bolshoi technique!
coffeeiceblended 2 years ago 6
a estas alturas no importa quien invento la técnica! el fútbol lo inventaron los ingleses y el mejor equipo del mundo actuar es español! no por eso se le quita el mérito! es la mejor en la actualidad! si pensamos en el pasado no avanzaría el mundo! si que tenemos que tener conocimiento del pasado! pero cada vez el humano se supera mas y con el tiempo siempre salen mejores ya sean bailarines, músicos, deportistas, científicos...etc! saludos!
Garri2music 4 months ago
Viengsay appears in the following video clip /watch?v=iSRmc2OKOiU by Cuban band Buena Fe
guachoko 2 years ago
Por cierto, si no lo saben, Viengsay acaba de ser invitada a bailar Don Quijote al Mariinsky junto a Leonid Sarafanov. Despues de Alicia Alonso ella es la otra cubana que baila con una compañia rusa. Vamos que es una diva.
jesarg24 3 years ago
I think her arms and movement are exquisite!!
brewskyxxx 3 years ago
Viengsay is currently the best ballet dancer in Cuba and one of the bests in the international arena. Any company will be fortunate to have her as principal dancer. She has character and coloratura, technical bravura, impressing equilibrium and total domain of the pirouettes. Who cares if she is not undernourished or over-skinny when she can transmit so many profound emotions. Look at the Degas portraits of the Palais-Garnier ballerinas, she has the anatomy of the French ballerina of XIXeme .
CMGGOttawa 3 years ago 2
hermoso,beatiful!!!
Abel
bmartin1755 3 years ago
que belleza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nievecuqui 3 years ago
beatiful
seigrandeale 3 years ago 2
This is a very strong performance. Yes, she is a powerful dancer and likes to show her technique. This performance was sublime, very inspired. She did not forgot for a minute that she was a dying swan, her port-des-bras were beautiful, her interpretation impeccable and yet very contemporaneous. I see ballet and the best ballet dancers regularly at the metropolitan, I know what I am saying. Her interpretation was spectacular, if you cannot see that then you do not know ballet, that's it.
CMGGOttawa 3 years ago 2
hey now wait a minute... everyones entitled to their own opinion and actually abt dancers are not the best, the russians are way better watch the technique
bolshoiboy8 3 years ago
no tiene brazos, tiene alas... hermosos!
fouette83 3 years ago 11
betther than natalia makarova and betther than ulanova. the performance of viengsay valdez it´s too similar plisteskaya's performance. and that it´s good because she is a young girl and she is looking for the best school. looking at the plisteskaya she study. the performance of makarova is the worst. their hands are like a bird of ill omen not swan...
nievecuqui 3 years ago
you know what, her arms are actually pretty good here. its kind of pointless to compare a 21st century dying swan to the early 20th century dying swans, theres no way that similar styles would be produced. maybe we can compare the 60s and 70s generation with now but def not earlier...i dont think. i wont comment on her ballet technique in this, (as it is always controversial) but i think her use of arms are VERY VERY strong and quality here. she's been doing lots of research i can tell!
ohbudda 3 years ago
character and drama first. then maybe some technque but come on
toeknee1965 3 years ago
oh i cant even watch the whole thing.
good dancer but has no clue about the role or charachter. sad
toeknee1965 3 years ago
look for makarova!that`s dying swan!this is very bad...
ANAMARI9JA 3 years ago
i agree!!!!!everybody`s looking only for tehnique.that`s a shame.nobody`s really dancing nowdays.i hate that!!!
ANAMARI9JA 3 years ago
There is too much technique nowadays. Look at Pavlova and Koralli they are more fluent and soft, they seem to feel the music, whereas nowadays dancer are too occupied with their technique. It is a pity.
staronella 4 years ago 3
This is awful. This girl needs coaching badly... or at least information and understanding of the meaning of style.
gallegotii 4 years ago
This is indeed a "Mayaesque" adaptation. The soviet style of the piece. It would do V well to go back to the true original choreography of Fokine and watch the great ALICIA MARKOVA,interpret what Fokine wanted...especially the end as Markova her right hand resting on her foot drops it to the side upon death.
qbendanny1 4 years ago
Correct QbenDanny1- Fokine taught it to Markova when he asked her to dance it. I've seen the Jacob's Pillow performance. It is definititive.
Leonnidik 2 years ago
I'm a great admirer of Valdes' work, I've comment her beautiful line and amazine technique in other videos, but I didn't like this white swan. As a black swan, doing Alicia's coreography, she is perfect; but as a white swan I felt the lack of emotion and desperation requiered by this role. But I must say that her hands are very beautiful and soft.
solenna 4 years ago
This is a copy from plisteskaya's performance...i've seen her many times. I believe viengsay should be more original anda also more soft!! she's technically good but she's not representing the softness of this piece, and that's the most important part.
c4r0lit4 4 years ago
Did you see Vi's Swan Lake 2dn act? that is what i call perfection, even if you only look at her hands, I haven't seen many performances of Odile like that, hers is magnific, fascinating. The video is here. Her second act is better that many other primas. My respect for her work.
quintajoya 4 years ago
Dramatica...
ElfsArrow94 4 years ago
she needs to see the best Dying Swans from the great ballerinas, Plistskaya, Ulanova, Pavlova she seems very much alive, she lacks elegance in her movements
quintajoya 4 years ago
I do not agree, she is very elegant and i seen all three ballerinas you mentioned.
Josed305 4 years ago
she is a perfectionist dancer, and one of the greater of her generation, I love her, but i think a better coreography will expose her more to the original line and suffering of a dying swan. It has to be a secuence of clean poses that stay on your mind like a slide show, hands away from the tutu, better angles of views. Each pose should be like a photo.
quintajoya 4 years ago 2
I agree in some of the issues that you mentioned and I believe her interpretationis very polished but to be frank Maya's interpretation of this piece is quite exceptional but she never transmit the suffering of the death. Is technical but not as interpretative as Ullanova and Pavlova of course
Josed305 4 years ago