2th Paquita variation

[pottermoreFUIM]

which variation is this?

[Buondelmonte123]

Nisia's variation from Tsar Kandavl, [music by Pugni]

[ballerinababe901]

@Silverinsanity isn't cupid from Don Quixote?

[jennyluvballet]

@ballerinababe901 same here

[bolshoiballet1]

I wish there was the full version. This is a rarely seen variation nowadays yet one of the most beautiful when done well

[imyours10101]

i love this variation. its definitely a hard one

[Mkaji13]

2th? tooth?

2nd

[Mkaji13]

2th?

2nd

[Hard333Core]

1.03 - fantastic!

[londonfiv]

Whats the music? please

[Buondelmonte123]

@londonfiv Cesare Pugni, Nisia's variation from Tsar Kandavl. Damn I'm good.

[mmm135791]

She has amazing control!

[danceluverful]

im sooo jealous of her costume!!! (and she dances perfectly)

[acerin123]

She's an amazing dancer but she has bad musicality.

[nitzipitzi]

2nd not 2th

[goodluckballoon]

Oo I learned this variation. So much fun! That was stunning and Ekaterina performed it beautifully! Yea, I'm jealous =P Lol.

[sarahgoesrawwrr]

ooohh i love her dancing.i have the movie ballerina.shes one of the dancers showcased in it.=]

[BaletAll]

This video is a Mad-about-Mariinsky and not you!!!!! :(

[salpsalp]

Amazing presence. Bravo!

[rain3dance]

Very good technique. Make sure you stick the fifth position out of your pirouettes.

[yentlmort]

@rain3dance ha! it's ekaterina kondaurova - i think she knows how to do a pirouette...

[awww232305]

good!!

[RebbyTheDinosaur]

god your right that was abeautiful arabesque 9: shes so flawless

[SteelioC]

Beautiful arms, feet, and pirouettes!

[DanceGirl319]

i love her arabesque on 1:03

[tataklb]

Maravilhoso!! Eu vou conseguir!

[whiteswans135]

Her arms and hand movements were very beautiful and graceful. The balance in arabesque was amazing!

[KitKat0895]

beautiful arabesque after the first diagonal!!!! OMG amazing

[ballet0ismylife]

Beautiful work. Technically nice but you have to make sure that you have a proper 5th position before going into your pirouettes!

[kerryfairy1]

I don't think she's reading this lol :) It's Ekaterina Kondaurova from the mariinsky ballet.

[matiassk8brasil]

only two of your four variations are THE four paquita variations, one of them is the cupid and this one is not one of the four main ones as far as i know

[SilverInsanity]

...There are over eleven "Paquita" variations. The Cupid Variation is one of them.

[Buondelmonte123]

@SilverInsanity any Minkus/Drigo/Pugni, even Tcherpnine, variation is fodder for Paquita. Anyone who wants to attempt at sorting it all out had better have a large bottle of aspirin along side them in their well nigh hopeless endeavour.

[avesraggiana]

@Buondelmonte123 Damn right! As I’ve said in other posts, the great revelation of post-Soviet ballet was that there were heaps and heaps of these seemingly interchangeable Petipa-Minkus/Drigo/Pugni just lying around all over the place and not much else. As an aside, someone HAS posted a Bolshoi performance of Paquita with rather informative and lengthy descriptions of the different variations. Look for the Bolshoi performance with Natalia Osipova in one of the variations.

[Buondelmonte123]

@avesraggiana Thank you. You can't imagine the amount of variations I've seen in Paquita, including the lovely solo from Talisman. It makes me LOL when I see the variation danced by Mme Karsavina from Le Pavillon d'Armide, in Fokine choreography, performed under the guise of Paquita. Fokine would have been horrified as ballet-divertissements such as Paquita, were, as we know, something he fought hard against in his choreographic aesthetic.

[balletbunhead777]

yes and the forth one is not a "Paquita" either its from Aremeta's Provolone

[tutugirl4life]

Her arabesque at 1:03 was really nice and high but she really cheated it, and it wasn't behind her completely

[wizardancer]

her arabeque is high, but her leg in not behind her completely

[katerinavander]

Lovely epaulement and port de bras, very liquid and musical.

[Grisi93]

haha i love the 2th not 2nd

[speedtouch0]

shes good but her 5ths are terrible:s

[pointemeout]

lol..i confused it with an open 4th...

[yonjooheero]

agreed. looks more like third position and fourth at the same time. :-S

[Naokun29]

Are those even 5ths? O.o Are you sure those are her 5ths?

[robdogg007]

im pretty sure she is preping in 3rd not 5th

[Naokun29]

That's what i was asking the person i replied to, i don't think she's preoaring on 5th :P

[IHEARTDANCE28]

She is actually preparing in a very small fourth which is how some people turn because it makes it easier to passe faster.

[northstargirls]

agreed but she is still amazinggg

[balletfreak329]

She also looks spastic! She isn't that graceful and smoothe.

[jpmraaa]

In my profile i have a video of my friend doing the complete variation

[BalletNikitenko]

You can find the whole variation on "Kirov Classics" video.

[karyzzinha]

does anybody has the complete variation???

[therealodille]

This is lovely but perhaps she could think about her 'inbetween positions' a little more, for example her fifth positions could be a little clearer.

[ROCKSCHOOLKID]

yes yes yes, i noticed that too. i saw her fifth perouette and it made me rewind and pause it! otherwise, it's beautiful!

[cahsandman]

Kirov Ballet!

[karyzzinha]

what is this company???

is it royal??' opera de paris???

gent q compania d ballet eh essa??

[allardfleischl]

is this the entire variation? i learnt this earlier this week at a ballet seminar only the version i learnt had at least a miniute extra at the beginning!

[drummamamma]

Its only half of it.

[everlast13529]

very graceful

[mrlopez2681]

This variation is by Minkus, it is the 'Variation of Draginiatza' from Petipa's 1891 ballet "Kalkabrino"