She's perfectly healthy, unhealthy eaters would not be able to dance with such strong body movements. Ballet requires leg, arm & abdomen strength. She dances a lot which is why she has a slender slightly muscular body. She's a beautiful dancer & what guy wouldn't want to date a talented & flexibile ballerina? Just cause you might stuff your face with greasy foods doesn't mean she should!
enough with the skinny comments. you all sound jealous. look, ballet requires a certain body type and build. you have to be built like this in order to do whats required in ballet. she's perfectly healthy. if she were sick or something she would not be able to dance like this. she is sooo strong. you dont get strong like this from starving yourself. so stop the jealous hating and just accept that some women are naturally blessed with these bodies. stop judging!!!
@iloveballetnerd oh im sorry, and what national ballet company do YOU dance with that makes you so qualified to judge her technique? some of you on here are just so damn catty! LEARN from this professionals instead of trying to find fault with them.
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@shannanique why would you want a beautiful professional ballerina to put that toxic shit in her body? cuz YOU do and you're jealous that your body doesnt look like this? sooo jealous. pry the chicken out your mouth, dance and rehearse for about 8 hours a day and perhaps you can dance like this too. k? ballerinas eat WELL. they dont stuff themselves full of grease like you're proposing. stop hating!!!!
Eck me for pointe. So basically I already had the strength, I just had to learn the technique. But do millions of releves in the mean time. They really helped me. Hope this helped ;))
Well I take two classes per week, and they're intermediate level. And for pointe: when I started ballet I had just finished my varsity tennis season, so I already had very strong ankles and feet (from all the jerky movements in tennis) so basically I just had to learn the technique for pointe (not sickleing, etc) which only took about 6 months to master. I probably would have been on pointe about two months sooner but my teacher was out due to a surgery so she couldn't ch
I was in ballet when I was younger :( I of course had to quit and I've pretty much regretted it ever since.. Is 14 too old to pick it back up? I quit about 10 years ago.
@KatiKosta it'S not to late. I started with 19. now I'm 25 and I can dance this sequence now. It was really hard work. But I get it. :) Start, if you want. And you don't have to become a professional ballerina. But dancing is fun!
@alexflute6795 Sigh. I guess you don't understand what you would want when you are little...Like, I wish I could go back into time and tell my former self, "Do this because it's a beautiful dance to get into and you will love it regret it if you don't!!!"
@crossbow500 Chinese lady not doing ballet because she is a contortionist/acrobat (a brilliant one) but could not do what prof. ballerinas do in, ever. Plus she has heavily reinforced shoes not made for dancing but just keep her up and which are impossible to walk in (check out her 'walking') Ballet is an art form, the other is top-quality circus - the 2 require different dedicated training & are not interchangeable. Would she be a violinist if she did contortion tricks merely holding a violin?
With Swan Lake, Odette is supposed to be upset about her circumstances. That's why, as a lot of you have said, she shows know emotion. Some dancers and choreographers rely on the choreography and music to convey emotion, even with lighting and scenery. It's not always about facial expressions. Trust me. I've done a dance where I had to have a straight face and let the music and choreography tell the story.
@EvaAHtjuuH actually it's rumored (I guess I dunno I've only heard of it a couple of times) that Natalie Portman had dance doubles. Professional dancer Sarah Lane was supposedly one of them. I'm not absolutely sure but I don't think Natalie Portman did all of her own dancing...
Poor solists, they feel so much pressure to perfect their technique that they end up so stressed to be perfect that they can not express their passion.. I don't know if that's the case with her but it generally happens.
ya i thought it was just me but after reading the comments....there is no emmotion at all, it as if theres no passion in what she's doing. if i could dance like that, it would be all passion....
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sorry but 0:53... was rubbish. as was her emotion and stage presence. but her feet are nice, as were her turns at the end. I wish I could say that at least her emotion was ok, but even that failed. I may not be as thin or flexible as her or have nicer feet than her, but I would at least like to think that I ca show more emotion. She was dead, and it really ruined it.
@smappy47- What does being Russian have to do with anything? Svetlana Zakharova and Natalia Osipova are Russian too and they use a lot of emotion on stage.
I agree!!! @smappy47 what's with being russian? I know a lot of american and latin ballerinas that are supposed to be more gracefull and seductive being more stiff than russians... and yeahhh just look at Svetlana Zakharova's face while dancing the black swan with roberto bolle and tell me... have you seen a sexiest look in any ballet? tell me that's no emotion!!!!
@kmaelan112 not sure the exact name, but it is Swan Lake act 2 Odette's Variation. Well, some people in the olden days used to call act 2 act 1 scene two instead, but nowadays the lakeside is act 2.
But watching from the audience, I probably wouldn't be able to tell.
Also, when I was a little girl watching a ballet (not this one), some other girls were talking about how she showed no emotion. To me, though, that didn't change the fact of how absolutely beautiful she looked.
I think the sense of displaying intention and control rather than fluidity is appropriate here--every movement is balanced within the whole--it is even--magnificent in its moderation.
I really don't think most people appreciate the art of ballet until they actually take a class in it and i dance for my high school, and we just finished our ballet unit, and I have never done anything so challenging!!
i'd say ballet is the hardest sport. it's definatley the only one where you use every part of your body at the same time, we're strainging yet we make it look effortless. Ballet is indeed a sport, and an amazing one at that.
@bellegoose211 , why would Odette smile, how would a person feel and look if they were transformed into a bird by a magician? its Odette not the Sugar Plum, hell she commits suicide
@bellegoose211 you would be angry too if some evil wizard trapped you in the body of a swan and the only time you could be in your true body was on the night of the full moon
I'm just curious. Many says that you could startdance classic ballet a a age of 19 (maby not professioal). If you never have dance bifore, and start at a ge of 19, could you then someday dance in pointe shoes? I just wonder, cause I just find out that I dream of it. To dace in those shoes. (I'm 19). Do anyone think I would make it or how many years takes it? Sorry my bad english.
@norwegiandancer91 I started pointe after about 6-7 years of dancing, but I was only 13, so it depends. It takes children longer, because their bones aren't done growing, and if you're not careful, they can ruin their feet. It's a different case for full grown adults.
@hbanana7 Yeah but you'll never be the calibre of a professional dancer nor will you be able to accomplish everything they have: i.e. you will never dance an entire ballet, especially not one as technically demanding as swan lake. So congratulations to you but you will never be a real ballet dancer
@EMGIRL1234 i took three years of three(+) lessons a week. Come yearly performances, we practically lived at the studio. Sure, I won't be able to dance pro, but damn, it is soooo worth it for the dancing, and learning to control your body, enteract with other ballet enthusiasts, wear costumes and perform!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT also helped me love watching ballet more bu tenfolds! Knowing just how difficult and IMPOSSIBLE moves the pros were doing. ^_^ Ballet ROCKS!!
@Nioshiku I had that apprehension myself. ME? Start ballet at my age? Let only lack of money and time be the excuses. If you love ballet, are sure to regret at least, not giving Google and Yellow Pages a search, Community culture papers/sites. I had to go through one studio before I found the studio I really liked.
@hbanana7 haha, I'm too familiar with those excuses... Although i did searched the web, I've never did something with it.. Mabye I'll try that for a change.
@hbanana7 did you really start at 23?! how long did it take you to go on pointe? i've been dancing for years but only contemporary, and would love to train in ballet and get on pointe whilst i'm at university :)
@lauragabbay due to going back to school, I haven't been dancing for over a year. ( in Depth of Despair). When I visited a new local studio, I was horribly out of shape. I need a teacher who isn't afraid to touch me to correct my posture!!!! .....it took me longer that 3 years, of building up strenghth and endurance in various part of the body. My limbs still go everywhere, but it is such sweet pain to be dancing. Sweeter still on pointe.
@hbanana7 and how old are you now? if i may ask i was on ballet at 15 but i leave it, now im 21 and i wanna take it back, leave it was my biggest mistake ever :(
she is a great dancer,she makes everything alright,but feels like she just want to do every movement correctly, it doesn't fit to music at all..sorry i say that,its just what i felt
Gorgeous set! Her costume is gorgeous, I like how her feet aren't overly pointed and arched. It's refreshing to see some less arched feet on stage. Wonderful arms and hands. I love her feet in the pique turns!! I wish she would smile a teensy bit more.
Incredible dancing but a smile or any sign of love for dancing might make it easier to watch! She just look's like she focusing to hard and she needs to remember why she started dancing at all and it might actually make her smile when she is dancing.
dont hate me but i love her dancing...i just think she is too thin. dont hate me!
SuperBroadwayninja 1 day ago
She is so beautiful!! I wish i was expert enough to do that!....Wow
NIKKIniixx 6 days ago
She's perfectly healthy, unhealthy eaters would not be able to dance with such strong body movements. Ballet requires leg, arm & abdomen strength. She dances a lot which is why she has a slender slightly muscular body. She's a beautiful dancer & what guy wouldn't want to date a talented & flexibile ballerina? Just cause you might stuff your face with greasy foods doesn't mean she should!
BabyLuvzVlogz 1 week ago
enough with the skinny comments. you all sound jealous. look, ballet requires a certain body type and build. you have to be built like this in order to do whats required in ballet. she's perfectly healthy. if she were sick or something she would not be able to dance like this. she is sooo strong. you dont get strong like this from starving yourself. so stop the jealous hating and just accept that some women are naturally blessed with these bodies. stop judging!!!
ILoveFriedFetus 1 week ago
@ILoveFriedFetus
You're comment is sooooooo right!
BabyLuvzVlogz 1 week ago
she's soooooo skinny it scares me
ohlivvv1D 1 week ago
@ohlivvv1D you sound jealous. nobody wants to see fat ballerinas. sorry.
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@ohlivvv1D you sound jealous. nobody wants to see fat ballerinas. sorry.
ILoveFriedFetus 1 week ago
perfect!
annasouzac2 2 weeks ago
Her developes to the back could be higher. Her arms look lost. Just saying
iloveballetnerd 2 weeks ago
@iloveballetnerd oh im sorry, and what national ballet company do YOU dance with that makes you so qualified to judge her technique? some of you on here are just so damn catty! LEARN from this professionals instead of trying to find fault with them.
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ilovesummer55 3 weeks ago
All i have to say is fried chicken... Eat it while its good
shannanique 3 weeks ago
@shannanique why would you want a beautiful professional ballerina to put that toxic shit in her body? cuz YOU do and you're jealous that your body doesnt look like this? sooo jealous. pry the chicken out your mouth, dance and rehearse for about 8 hours a day and perhaps you can dance like this too. k? ballerinas eat WELL. they dont stuff themselves full of grease like you're proposing. stop hating!!!!
ILoveFriedFetus 1 week ago
Did anyone else notice how freakishly skinny she iz!!
Marshsm901 3 weeks ago
Eck me for pointe. So basically I already had the strength, I just had to learn the technique. But do millions of releves in the mean time. They really helped me. Hope this helped ;))
Grenko816 3 weeks ago
@CMWRose & @frizzygal:
Well I take two classes per week, and they're intermediate level. And for pointe: when I started ballet I had just finished my varsity tennis season, so I already had very strong ankles and feet (from all the jerky movements in tennis) so basically I just had to learn the technique for pointe (not sickleing, etc) which only took about 6 months to master. I probably would have been on pointe about two months sooner but my teacher was out due to a surgery so she couldn't ch
Grenko816 3 weeks ago
@Grenko816 WOAH! what type of classes were you taking?? tell me your secrets please!
CMWRose27 1 month ago
@evelyn
I started ballet again too when I was 15 and got on pointe in 6 months! It can be done :)
Grenko816 1 month ago
@Grenko816 How did you do that so fast? Please tell me how haha I want to dance so much
frizzygal17 3 weeks ago
ahh beatiful ballet :) but i cant look at her arms, ahh she's ways to thin !
CausePHOTOGRAPHY 1 month ago
bravo!!!
AnastasiaSakina 1 month ago
@evelyn You only live once!! 30 years olds even pick up ballet! In 1-2 years you could be on pointe!
Maddyisnotshort13 1 month ago
I was in ballet when I was younger :( I of course had to quit and I've pretty much regretted it ever since.. Is 14 too old to pick it back up? I quit about 10 years ago.
evelyn112101 1 month ago
I wish I got into ballet :( I would of really enjoyed it. Now I'm 19 and it's too late.
KatiKosta 1 month ago
@KatiKosta it'S not to late. I started with 19. now I'm 25 and I can dance this sequence now. It was really hard work. But I get it. :) Start, if you want. And you don't have to become a professional ballerina. But dancing is fun!
daryadee 1 month ago
@KatiKosta I know how you feel. I'm 16 and I wish I hadn't quit when I was little. :(
alexflute6795 1 month ago
@alexflute6795 Sigh. I guess you don't understand what you would want when you are little...Like, I wish I could go back into time and tell my former self, "Do this because it's a beautiful dance to get into and you will love it regret it if you don't!!!"
KatiKosta 1 month ago
I feel clumsy.
3lia96 1 month ago
Beautiful. The dance, the costume, the music. Just beautiful.
foreverxfall 1 month ago
I love Swan Lake ballet.
merliah1234 1 month ago
I gotta admit, shes good. I actually thought her emotionless visage was quite tasteful.
TehNewSoars 2 months ago
47 are jealous.
takuma093 2 months ago
apsoloutly gorgeous! shes so perfect
maddyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 months ago 2
@mrklt1945 Yes it would make her a violinist
crossbow500 2 months ago
Shes Russian! I know her! I've seen her somewhere I think all in all she was fantastic.
starianna200023 2 months ago
she's not fully on her box for some of it
freanchrosedances2 2 months ago 2
im sorry but after seeing that asian woman do a swan lake routine, even amazing ballet like this is just ok
crossbow500 2 months ago
@crossbow500 Chinese lady not doing ballet because she is a contortionist/acrobat (a brilliant one) but could not do what prof. ballerinas do in, ever. Plus she has heavily reinforced shoes not made for dancing but just keep her up and which are impossible to walk in (check out her 'walking') Ballet is an art form, the other is top-quality circus - the 2 require different dedicated training & are not interchangeable. Would she be a violinist if she did contortion tricks merely holding a violin?
MrKLT1945 2 months ago
She looks like a music box ballerina when she is spinning. Beautiful!
ladygodivachocolates 3 months ago 18
her arms are ridiculous. eat something!
wakemeup9835 3 months ago
With Swan Lake, Odette is supposed to be upset about her circumstances. That's why, as a lot of you have said, she shows know emotion. Some dancers and choreographers rely on the choreography and music to convey emotion, even with lighting and scenery. It's not always about facial expressions. Trust me. I've done a dance where I had to have a straight face and let the music and choreography tell the story.
bellaangel9094 3 months ago 31
@bellaangel9094 that may be so, but honey this is SWAN LAKE, everone knows odette needs lots of expression (: no ofens (:
rottenruth5 1 month ago
Yuuuuuukkkk :(
dancingboy97 3 months ago
Shes an amazing dancer... but she looks possessed or something.. :(
Ash120000 3 months ago
@EvaAHtjuuH actually it's rumored (I guess I dunno I've only heard of it a couple of times) that Natalie Portman had dance doubles. Professional dancer Sarah Lane was supposedly one of them. I'm not absolutely sure but I don't think Natalie Portman did all of her own dancing...
123skittulz321 3 months ago
@bellegoose211 Did you ever stop to think that that may be how shes supose to act
crazyarts1 3 months ago
good
crazyarts1 3 months ago
I love her pointe work, it's gorgeous, she has total control over her body,
U-MAY-ZING
iluvparis13 3 months ago
Apparently being born just beautiful is not good enough-- she had to be born beautiful and graceful and dedicated and talented, etc.
Venusfly72378 3 months ago
Yes, she has emotions. But you never understood them, even if you live 100 years and study only her emotions.
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Wonderful!!!
Fonseca429 4 months ago
Wonderful!!!
Fonseca429 4 months ago
This makes me miss taking Ballet classes
Merboo22 4 months ago
Beautiful
Oo and u dont amile in classical ballet
njg535 4 months ago
idk, maybe she's supposed to look angry? angry swan or something?
smartercat 4 months ago
great dancing, but NO expression. I couldn't read her emotions at all
BluePearlSiren 4 months ago
-.- top two comments are exactly the same...
chaos1267 4 months ago
bellisimo :D
Nadzanid 4 months ago
Poor solists, they feel so much pressure to perfect their technique that they end up so stressed to be perfect that they can not express their passion.. I don't know if that's the case with her but it generally happens.
MariaNNaBoBos 4 months ago
ya i thought it was just me but after reading the comments....there is no emmotion at all, it as if theres no passion in what she's doing. if i could dance like that, it would be all passion....
christine4xoxo 4 months ago
I don't unerstand nothing about ballet, but I think this floor is bad to make pointe
tenten5002 4 months ago
@bellegoose211 - Maybe her feet hurt? Being up on pointe that much is no easy matter. Just a thought.
goldie0800 4 months ago
I agree with your comment..she's fantastic but she hasn't expression.. :/
LuuAGL 4 months ago
she is like a robot, horrible!
cabinthewoods90 4 months ago
If you think this is good, then you should see Marianela Nuñez's Odette solo!
Blondieeism 4 months ago
it looks like Princess TuTu :]
squeakyXD 5 months ago
someone's an amazing robotic dancer.......:S
zebra24000 5 months ago
@bellegoose211 well she is chinese so i liek the chinese but just saysing lol
XyourcutebabbyX 5 months ago
Her Port De Bras is great!
Kiarya17 5 months ago
Марина Ржанникова — выпускница Московского Академического хореографического училища. Во время учёбы в училище стала лауреатом программы «Новые имена». После окончания училища в 1992 году была принята в труппу Государственного академического театра классического балета под руководством Н. Касаткиной и В. Василёва.
Gloriya1980 5 months ago
sorry but 0:53... was rubbish. as was her emotion and stage presence. but her feet are nice, as were her turns at the end. I wish I could say that at least her emotion was ok, but even that failed. I may not be as thin or flexible as her or have nicer feet than her, but I would at least like to think that I ca show more emotion. She was dead, and it really ruined it.
EvanescenceROCKSS 5 months ago
she looks kind of wobbly to me, like she is about to fall over.
and those arms look like they have done nothing in life but dance.
she is beautifully slim and tall
i just wish i could relate to her more
seems a shame when professionalism detracts from a person's humanity
nohasayedalahl 5 months ago
how old is she? she seems very nervous
hyunjiS 5 months ago
@bellegoose211 Well, she is Russian.....
smappy47 6 months ago
@smappy47- What does being Russian have to do with anything? Svetlana Zakharova and Natalia Osipova are Russian too and they use a lot of emotion on stage.
soyuncatacol 6 months ago 2
@soyuncatacol
JANIROMI 5 months ago
I agree!!! @smappy47 what's with being russian? I know a lot of american and latin ballerinas that are supposed to be more gracefull and seductive being more stiff than russians... and yeahhh just look at Svetlana Zakharova's face while dancing the black swan with roberto bolle and tell me... have you seen a sexiest look in any ballet? tell me that's no emotion!!!!
JANIROMI 5 months ago
she dances beautifully but she is so concentrated on her technique that her face conveys no emotions. She looks to serious
xoMALxoPINEAUxo 6 months ago
does anybody know what musical piece this is?
kmaelan112 6 months ago
@kmaelan112 not sure the exact name, but it is Swan Lake act 2 Odette's Variation. Well, some people in the olden days used to call act 2 act 1 scene two instead, but nowadays the lakeside is act 2.
EvanescenceROCKSS 5 months ago
She's concentraiting on her technique way too much! She needs to put much more emotion into this as well D:
LaurenStar111 6 months ago 2
Beautiful but she is rather stiff and robotic.Also, there is no emotion in her dancing.
SpudxMuffinz 6 months ago
She shows no emotion on her face, yes. Agreed.
But watching from the audience, I probably wouldn't be able to tell.
Also, when I was a little girl watching a ballet (not this one), some other girls were talking about how she showed no emotion. To me, though, that didn't change the fact of how absolutely beautiful she looked.
kimmiegoesgrawr 6 months ago
wow she's beautiful
Sinful0Sinner 6 months ago
I love it! She shows gracefulness, strength, and she makes it look easy. It would be better if she showed emotion
dancergirl20122012 7 months ago
Absolutly Love But SHe Has No Emotion Whats So Ever Which Kind Of Ruins It >.<
NIquey3 7 months ago 35
@NIquey3 nathalie portman is better :P (black swan)
EvaAHtjuuH 3 months ago
Balletto fantastico.....mi rispecchio quando anche io ballavo sulle punte!!!
MrConte67 7 months ago
gorgous! i hope that i am a swan some day! :D that would be amazing...:)
TheDaNcEr2303 8 months ago
Это чудо из чудес!
45vodonis 8 months ago
I think the sense of displaying intention and control rather than fluidity is appropriate here--every movement is balanced within the whole--it is even--magnificent in its moderation.
nycorbust 8 months ago
at 0:29-0:38 she looked as if she couldn't get over the box..
TheChaiTeaLatte 8 months ago
her beauty never ceases to amaze me....
iAmHereAsYouAreHere 8 months ago
Her feet are perfection
TheLexanatorOfficial 8 months ago
Wow this is amazing I had to quit ballet wen I was little and i always wanted to start again
peegedeege121 9 months ago
waow, she's amazing.. :D And BOY! She really looks like a SWAN! <3
Hello2950 9 months ago
oh its beautiful
Hello2950 9 months ago
beautiful port de bras
sxydancrbabe 10 months ago
wtf?
GrandTheftBitch 10 months ago
@GrandTheftBitch Hmm..you don't know what dancing is.
LucasHiltonVicious16 9 months ago
@LucasHiltonVicious16
... of course...?!
GrandTheftBitch 9 months ago
@GrandTheftBitch You do?
LucasHiltonVicious16 9 months ago
I really don't think most people appreciate the art of ballet until they actually take a class in it and i dance for my high school, and we just finished our ballet unit, and I have never done anything so challenging!!
maddy3457 11 months ago
semplicemente meravigliosa!
MsEnrico94 11 months ago
true, but sometimes when you are out on the dance floor you can't not smile even if the part doesn't call for it
andraiagfsts 11 months ago
Where can I find the piano sheet music for this?
enpointe64 11 months ago
i really wish that i had never quit dance, its truly so beautiful
millazx 11 months ago
chinese are the best dancers. ever seen mao's last dancer? yeah, amazing
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i'd say ballet is the hardest sport. it's definatley the only one where you use every part of your body at the same time, we're strainging yet we make it look effortless. Ballet is indeed a sport, and an amazing one at that.
cpayne4ever 1 year ago
@bellegoose211 , why would Odette smile, how would a person feel and look if they were transformed into a bird by a magician? its Odette not the Sugar Plum, hell she commits suicide
aj92507 1 year ago 4
she owned that variation, not copied. I saw her work that role in that variation...unlike so many others...great work!
aj92507 1 year ago
beautiful woman!
Sarabbify 1 year ago
does anyone happen to have sheet music to play this song on piano? i would be forever grateful.
coatfullofcontraband 1 year ago
@bellegoose211 you would be angry too if some evil wizard trapped you in the body of a swan and the only time you could be in your true body was on the night of the full moon
GallofaSwan 1 year ago
She's so beautiful, I wish I could dance like that.
Give1Take2 1 year ago
She's a wonderful dancer! I do pointe too. :-)
kcrnhc2011 1 year ago
very elegant, i love her arms, she dances it really swan-like :3
MsFeliscatus 1 year ago
she seems a little worried or something... but she still dances beautifully :))
XxBallerina4ChristxX 1 year ago
ballet is just so elegant and beautiful
strawberrydream813 1 year ago
her posture is beautiful.
EdieNiomi 1 year ago
omg i so wanna do ballet :I just seems so hard v__v its easier just to do violin :(
skittlej007 1 year ago
so nice!
KalexCullen 1 year ago
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!
Loveprincessmiah 1 year ago
if ya train very hard ya can dance with point shoes...it doesent matter if ya start when ya are 8 or 15....if ya train hard its...yeah ya know.-:-
SigourneyWashington 1 year ago
I'm just curious. Many says that you could startdance classic ballet a a age of 19 (maby not professioal). If you never have dance bifore, and start at a ge of 19, could you then someday dance in pointe shoes? I just wonder, cause I just find out that I dream of it. To dace in those shoes. (I'm 19). Do anyone think I would make it or how many years takes it? Sorry my bad english.
AmenRocks1 1 year ago
@AmenRocks1 Yes its possible ^^ I've been dancing ever since age 7 and have been dancing in pointe for 6-7 years now ^^
MotyaNuteki89 1 year ago
she is but she dancers better than I.... i can feel music though!
2shelleyanne 1 year ago
i agree.. she is quite dull to watch compared to many other soloists!
morjin8 1 year ago 4
svetlana makes this look like a pile of nothing!
plus he turn out doesnt seem all that great compared to sveties.
reastarr 1 year ago
is she a ballerina? To be a ballerina we have to show emotions and an history!
gabrielladepaula1995 1 year ago
wow you should watch svetlana zakhorova's variation
takaoyona90 1 year ago
AWSOME! just no emotion
Cocomushed 1 year ago 3
no mimic... no soul... but great technique.
If even this beautiful music doesn't move her... then how can we by her dance?
(sorry for my english)
simonetr81 1 year ago 2
she's really good but it's cheating to have the music that fast :/
tacostastesbad 2 years ago
if you wish to see this done to perfection artistically and musicaly watch evelyn hart and natalie makarova
kentish62 2 years ago
Fabulous!! She's really awesome!
I love her jump at 1:11 and I like the music at 1:33.
How old is she now?She continues in the Moscow Classical Ballet?
Which act is this?
0001balletdancer 2 years ago
I would say she has no emotion... but this may just be her interpretation of the character?
Hausisse 2 years ago
Lovely of course, but she seems like just another RussianRoboSwan to me. I like to see some soul and emotion in Odette.
LordMoufMouf 2 years ago
wow thats so graceful...
i've always wanted to do ballet...wish i could
:(
SantiKaur 2 years ago
Me too!! Im too old now though, 22.
nvlj 2 years ago
Never too old! You should start lessons, if just to enjoy the movements.
SpiritSeekr 2 years ago
look for a nearby community ballet class for adults(if that is the age you are ^_^)
It is never too late to start. I started at age 23 and now I do pointe/
hbanana7 2 years ago 75
@hbanana7 good for you! Its never to late until your 6 feet under.
jackdaknife 2 years ago 2
Haha true. You only live once, so why not?
nvlj 1 year ago
@hbanana7 How long did you have to do ballet before you began dancing on pointe? :)
norwegiandancer91 1 year ago
@norwegiandancer91 depends on how fast you learn:) I did ballet for a year and a half before I went on pointe. I've been on pointe for four years.
kittyhawkisinlove 1 year ago
@norwegiandancer91 I started pointe after about 6-7 years of dancing, but I was only 13, so it depends. It takes children longer, because their bones aren't done growing, and if you're not careful, they can ruin their feet. It's a different case for full grown adults.
verizonstinks1 1 year ago
@hbanana7 Thanks for the inspiration. I'm 18 and I thought I was too old to be able to dance en pointe.
QueenAnnesFury 1 year ago
@hbanana7 Yeah but you'll never be the calibre of a professional dancer nor will you be able to accomplish everything they have: i.e. you will never dance an entire ballet, especially not one as technically demanding as swan lake. So congratulations to you but you will never be a real ballet dancer
serenevil 11 months ago
@serenevil Learn tact.
MariahJSkywalker 11 months ago
@MariahJSkywalker learn to appreciate the absence of it.
serenevil 1 month ago
@hbanana7 how long did it take u to get to pointe? and how many classes did u do per week? just curious
EMGIRL1234 10 months ago
@EMGIRL1234 i took three years of three(+) lessons a week. Come yearly performances, we practically lived at the studio. Sure, I won't be able to dance pro, but damn, it is soooo worth it for the dancing, and learning to control your body, enteract with other ballet enthusiasts, wear costumes and perform!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT also helped me love watching ballet more bu tenfolds! Knowing just how difficult and IMPOSSIBLE moves the pros were doing. ^_^ Ballet ROCKS!!
hbanana7 10 months ago
@hbanana7 awesome. thanks. good luck to you
EMGIRL1234 10 months ago
@hbanana7 i did ballet when i was young but i quit for some stuppid reason.. now i want to start again but i dont have the guts :'(
Nioshiku 8 months ago
@Nioshiku I had that apprehension myself. ME? Start ballet at my age? Let only lack of money and time be the excuses. If you love ballet, are sure to regret at least, not giving Google and Yellow Pages a search, Community culture papers/sites. I had to go through one studio before I found the studio I really liked.
hbanana7 8 months ago
@hbanana7 haha, I'm too familiar with those excuses... Although i did searched the web, I've never did something with it.. Mabye I'll try that for a change.
Nioshiku 8 months ago
@hbanana7 did you really start at 23?! how long did it take you to go on pointe? i've been dancing for years but only contemporary, and would love to train in ballet and get on pointe whilst i'm at university :)
lauragabbay 8 months ago
@lauragabbay due to going back to school, I haven't been dancing for over a year. ( in Depth of Despair). When I visited a new local studio, I was horribly out of shape. I need a teacher who isn't afraid to touch me to correct my posture!!!! .....it took me longer that 3 years, of building up strenghth and endurance in various part of the body. My limbs still go everywhere, but it is such sweet pain to be dancing. Sweeter still on pointe.
hbanana7 8 months ago
@hbanana7 Your comment inspired me! I'm turning 21 soon and will start lessons in the fall. Good to know there are other late bloomers out there! =)
AiLoveMusic 7 months ago
@hbanana7 and how old are you now? if i may ask i was on ballet at 15 but i leave it, now im 21 and i wanna take it back, leave it was my biggest mistake ever :(
theblacksideofhell 5 months ago
@hbanana7 Really? omG this is my dream, i'm 23 now!
Julieta024 5 months ago
@Julieta024 fo gor it :)
FyreBalletDancer 5 months ago
@FyreBalletDancer thanks for encouraging me to do it :)
Julieta024 5 months ago
she is a great dancer,she makes everything alright,but feels like she just want to do every movement correctly, it doesn't fit to music at all..sorry i say that,its just what i felt
yiziyizi1987 2 years ago 3
Gorgeous set! Her costume is gorgeous, I like how her feet aren't overly pointed and arched. It's refreshing to see some less arched feet on stage. Wonderful arms and hands. I love her feet in the pique turns!! I wish she would smile a teensy bit more.
writer13426 2 years ago 2
Yes I agree about her expression. I do like her feet though, during the pique turn/chaine section.
Susiejax 2 years ago
This is Act 1 before she meets Prince Siegfried, right?
Thenrah 2 years ago
Quite atmospheric., the moves precise and the music is just right.
poshlikeus 2 years ago
She´s amazing! An incredible dancer
elgrullo2007 2 years ago
she has nice feet, and amazing technique...but no expression? this would be so much better to watch if she showed some kind of emotion.
gillian murphy dances white/black swan beautifully!
LePetitDanseur2010 2 years ago 2
i agree she was doing great but her expression made it look like she was breathing heavy and having a hard time. But she was really good!
HawtFashion133 2 years ago
yeah, she was really good, though!
and thanx for the add! (:
LePetitDanseur2010 2 years ago
she won the solo portion for superstars of dance
marthalangille 2 years ago
Incredible dancing but a smile or any sign of love for dancing might make it easier to watch! She just look's like she focusing to hard and she needs to remember why she started dancing at all and it might actually make her smile when she is dancing.
sharpdancer11 2 years ago 2
I agree that she does not really dance with any emotion.
tinymavy 2 years ago 2
Maravillosa interpretacion de Odette del lago de los cisnes.
anzdf 2 years ago
bad!! very bad!!
nievecuqui 2 years ago