Grand Pas de Paquita 2: Alina Somova and Danila Korsuntsev

[dance1938]

its Mazurka all the way...al;right it slides into waltzing...

[AGVF88]

Alina's sequence dance at 3:20 is just lovely!

[TheBlockIsland]

Well, she moves me!

[vaganovafan]

6'56''where is her knee??now I know how she can oversplit,her knees bend inside and outside ;) hmmm..I try to be so objective as I could ,but you can't do that in ballet or any other artforms,everyone has a different taste and I looked so many times at mme somova ,and still she doesn't move me,and I don't want to compare her to other principals,but for me she was chosen too urly to that high position

[theamazingsoter]

Don't lift your leg so abruptly, Alina. Other than that, I enjoyed this very much, specially the adagio with Danila.

[dilapersempre]

mamma mia che meravigliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!­!! i love dance!!!!!!!! la danza è la mia vitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! se mi chiedessero quando smetterò di ballare......risponderei quando finirò di vivere<3<3<3

[valeguidi100]

alina looks so playful and sweet here!!!

[Dancer4LifendAfter]

She's gotten a lot better. She has a lot more control of her legs then even a year ago let alone 18.

[retusina]

I think that Danila Korsuntsev is the most boring dancer of the entire company despite his beautiful body and technique. there is no excitement, no fire, nothing. simply boring.

[pediatrapaola]

@retusina boring and also tecnique is not so strong,he has not the qualities to be a kirov principal.and the great BATALOV is only first soloist

[Bnesque]

It's so suave to see Yulia Stepanova, though only in the corps.

[retusina]

which one of them is Stepanova?

[Bnesque]

First group, second one from the left.

Isn't she entrancing?

[krizalanda]

@retusina Stepanova is in the blue tutu with brown hair. With blonde hair in the blue tutu is Oksana Skorik. They are both amazing.

[tutus4life]

@krizalanda Oksana is in the blue, but not Stepanova, Stepanova is in the corps

[russianballetvideo]

@nanarinauk . You are wrong. This was a live performance on December 31,2009.

[nanarinauk]

Sorry, there was one like I mentioned, and I confused them. I did say "If I am correct!!"

[Narodnaia]

Sorry, but he´s right, this was indeed broadcasted at New year´s eve by ARTE, a french-german channel, and you have the logo on the image . The mariinsky´s website algo gives this date for the performance.

On a side note, It´s great to see Oksana Shorik, the girl of `` A Beautiful Tragedy´´ here in the blue tutu and in the Shades corps. Nice to see her fine after hardships.

[plie1989]

@Narodnaia

Oksana is a beautiful dancer and I'm looking forward to seeing her in more roles!

[russianballetvideo]

@madisonave64 . This is the company as of December 31, 2009

[madisonave64]

got it. thanks so much for sharing!