Viengsay Valdés Kitri Solo & Coda

[FD02Ballet]

She is very amazing!!! But where is her fan?

[butifarra61]

not elastic or plastic....which the ballet world wants all ballerinas to be....she has some weight and that is healthy! oh, so healthy...the girl can eat some arroz con pollo and some great cuban arroz y abichuela! Finally! She can act and she can work those points shoes! OLE!!!

[Shanna12345678]

she also ignores the music. i find she does this often.

[Shanna12345678]

this is the slowest that i have ever seen this performed and the energy is just gone. totally flat and even boring.

[prn4ustat]

wow nice!

[wOrshipdanCer10]

She doesn't need a fan to be stunning!!

[matinage10]

the single-double fouette doesn't go with music at the coda, why do they do it? unless it is more important to show off the ability for endless pirouettes than being artistic

[adeballet]

so stiff no elegance....

[ballet322]

@adeballet are you insane? she is beautiful!!!!

[1psoas9]

She's actually almost DULL at the beginning of her variation, but the passage with the echappes is heavenly, very light and dancerly, and the sequence of toe hops with pas de chevals is delicate and delicious; this is NOT what I was led to expect from her dancing, with gross effects of balance like Toumanova at her worst -- I could find it in my heart to love her, to respect of course her natural gifts of strength but also her sweet temper and youthful generosity.

[shannon11494]

Wow. She it truly amazing.

[ravegods]

Nice almost-fall at the end of the fouettes. AGAIN. Why do people think this mediocre beast is so good?

[amapons]

Where is the fan ? Did someone steal it ? Why is she wearing a costume that looks like it came from the 1960s ? Can't Ballet Nacional de Cuba make a few new costumes ?

[rosalierox247]

@amapons That is how the costume is supposed to look, genius.

Number two. I feel like she doesn't need a fan, she's in Cuba for christ's sake and maybe that's the way the choreographer wanted it

[odile77]

@amapons many people comment about the fan on versions of this variation without it, but the fan is not obligatory, Maximova and Plisetskaya did this variation without a fan... it really depends on the choreography... about the costumes, it depends, where are you from? because as long as ballet costumes are pre designed they also change from one company to another, in my opinion culture can bring more to art

[maliindexvanesa]

She is just what ballet should be!!!

Guess this is some older recording, but I saw her in the same ballet from 2007 and I just couldn't believe my eyes.

She made me think that maybe ballet CAN be more then just some astonishing technique (that these days it is) ...but it can be dance in it's wonderful form...giving out your soul,passion,love, to the audience.

Bravo!!! :)

[sayitinrussian]

God, she's so slow and clumsy. In "Bolshoi'' even corps de ballet can give a better performance. Try Natalia Osipova.

[ravegods]

@sayitinrussian So true. People who think this is a great ballerina have obviously never seen Osipova or Vishneva.

[yaya2292]

She's PERFECT..... I love her

[brewskyxxx]

I lalalalalove her!!!

[bmartin1755]

Paradiselost89 tiene el higado destrozado con una bailarine de este calibre,no entiendo por que la odias tanto,si es evidente que es brillante,pero estas en tu derecho...te envio mis mas sinceros saludos...al fin de cuentas eres un gran balletomano con sus gustos particulares!

Abel

[brewskyxxx]

She is just perfect!! I think her balance is phenomenal!!!

[jesarg24]

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.

[bmartin1755]

she is prety good!! fenomenal!!

Abel

[fandellacelentano]

beatiful...

[Paradiselost89]

asco

[bebel0512]

Wow

[renejesus]

sinto muita saudade de v.v. pois a vi crescer debtro do bnc, há 10 anos não a vejo, agora fico so atraves deste site maravilhoso desfrutando das joias preciosas que cuba tem dado ao MUNDO! BRAVO A TODAS...

[mmwiz]

The orchestra played the music in a much smoother legato than we usually hear. That really diminished the sense of energy that is usually present in other performances.

[impurrfect1]

I miss the fan. I read in comments that the fan was stolen. I admire her that she danced anyway and did so well when she must have been upset about the fan. A real trouper! Bravo!

[dglk14]

that's not true. in the cuban version kitri never dances with her fan...i don't know the reason.

[orangeblueandlavenda]

beautiful music

[qbendanny1]

What is wonderful about this KITRI is that she has personalized the variation. Not a pastiche of others that have achived fame in the role. Flawless technique which she uses to express the Andalusian flair of the character. Flirtatious, but with class. An ideal iterpreter with her own style. BRAVA!

[Sadielito]

viengsay no es la típica Kitri rusa que parece que se ve a salir del escenario de tantos impulsos.

aunque esta no es su mejor actuación la he visto en muchas y es brillante.

ella es una kitri comedida y madura, no la chiquilla malcriada que los rusos quieren aparentar y que todo el mundo a copiado.principalmente los americanos robatalentos por excelencia.

[unsatura]

she has no speed, no sense of allegro, the music is flat too, not an exciting kitri at all.

[cubanmiamiboy]

it was stolen at the very moment of her variation, by a french ballerina...it was found later on that person's luggage...sad, right?

[dancecreature]

where is the fan in her hand?

[mdancer01]

that turns in Attitude are flawless

[dc000]

There is nothing wrong with her shoulders. That's part of the Cuban School of Dance. There are different schools or styles in classical ballet: the Russian, the American, the English, etc. Cuban style of dancing gives a special emphasis to shoulders and hips, among other things. Remember Cuba is the land of rumba, conga, and so on. This way of dancing is part of Cuban idiosincrasy. Many great dancers in the world go to Cuba to take master classes and learn about the Cuban technique.

[danscze]

beautiful technic but not very gracious to me

[balletmaniac999]

She is really really good, but she does something funny with her shoulders that makes her look weird.

[dc000]

There is nothing wrong with her shoulders. That's part of the Cuban School of Dance. There are different schools or styles in classical ballet: the Russian, the American, the English, etc. Cuban style of dancing gives a special emphasis to shoulders and hips, among other things. Remember Cuba is the land of rumba, conga, and so on. This way of dancing is part of Cuban idiosincrasy. Many great dancers in the world go to Cuba to take master classes and learn about the Cuban technique.

[rgaramgom]

Hey sorry to tell you but there is no American school, there are only 6 schools defined all around the word: English, Danish, Italian, French, Russian, Cuban.

There is an American way of dance that started to established with George Balanshine.

[dc000]

Sorry, you are right about the schools. My mistake.

[007deadbeat]

What about the School of American Ballet? Or does that one not count?

[rgaramgom]

That will be an Academy a place where people go and learn how to dance, school defines much more stuff, from the methodology to the dancing. There is not a recognized American school, but there a lot of academies to teach ballet.

[quintajoya]

You are absolutly correct, her interpretation of the rol is very much like spanish women dance even flamenco, but with the cuban clasical school, where the dancers dance with maestria and passion, with salero, with garbo, like it is said in spanish. Slaw turns so she can take advance of her domain of her sence of her secure and perfectly centered spot in the way she turns, alway.....

She is the maximun exponent of the cuban school today.

[quintajoya]

You are absolutly correct, her interpretation of the rol is very much like spanish women dance even flamenco, but with the cuban clasical school, where the dancers dance with maestria and passion, with salero, with garbo, like it is said in spanish. Slaw turns so she can take advance of her domain of her sence of her secure and perfectly centered spot in the way she turns, alway.....

She is the maximun exponent of the cuban school today.