Part 8 of 15 Kirov Mariinsky Ballet Raymonda Lopatkina Korsuntsev Osmolkina Ostreikovskaya

Kirov Mariinsky Ballet performance of Raymonda with music by Alexander Glazunov and choreography by Marius Petipa.
Cast
Raymonda - Uliana Lopatkina
Jean De Brienne - Danila Korsuntsev
Raymonda's friends, Henrietta & Clemence Ekaterina Osmolkina & Ksenia Ostreikovskaya
Two Troubadors - Alexander Sergeyev & Maxim Zyuzin
Aderakhman - Ilya Kuznetsov
Dream Variations - Daria Sukhorukova & Yulia Kasankova
Grand Pas variation - Valeria Martynyuk
Grand Pas 4 men - Maxim Eremeev , Vladimir Shklayrov , Alexei Nedviga , Maxim Krebtov.
Spanish Dance - Galina Rakhmanova , Andrei Yakovlev

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[TikvahS87]

Not the most impressive variation from Ostreikovskaya. Everything else is just lovely though. Thank you so much for posting!

[russianballetvideo]

The two of us happen to have very different opinions. This is one of the most difficult variations in all ballet. It requires great control, which she exemplified. Her arm movements flowed very beautiful throughout.

I was very impressed by her, but people will always have different opinions. That is life.

[pointeoflife]

I do not like the interpretation of Lopatkinas variation.. In my opinion it should be a lot less ...greasy. Not at all the right world, but I feel like she lacks some simplisity.

[mariinskyfan]

MT needs this in the repertoire more than twice a year. They should also bring this on tour once in a millennium.

[tutus4life]

@TikvahS87 I think it's the choreography, not the dancer. I agree it wasn't very smooth but the choreography wasn't very "dancy" or "danceable" to start with which made it kind of awkward and hard. very hard actually

[Firestarjude]

@mariinskyfan A word of caution re: Kostrovitskaya--her book may be out of date in some areas. The Vaganova Academy syllabus is perpetually revised/updated, so one cannot always rely on K for current practice. I don't doubt you re: chainés, just wanted to note that for other readers.

[mariinskyfan]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I love the way they look in first. I guess the same is true for fouetté turns. I prefer the Russian style with the leg opening directly to the side, but you will see that some Russian ballerinas do their fouettés with the rond de jambe, instead.

[Firestarjude]

@mariinskyfan Yes, I have that book. It is too bad that they teach it that way at the Vaganova Academy, as it is so ugly and does not work as well. I would never teach it that way to my students.

[mariinskyfan]

I'm not sure what they teach at the Kirov Academy, but the Vaganova school in St. Pete teaches them in an unturned-out 1st position. You can check out Vera Kostrovitskaya's book "School of Classical Dance." It spells out every step in the Vaganova Syllabus. I love this book & highly recommend it :-)

[Firestarjude]

Actually, I was trained at the Kirov Academy, and we always did them in 5th. Other Mariinsky ballerinas do them in 5th, too.

[jimmydzie]

Actually the Vaganova method teaches chaines in a non-turned out 1st position. Watch almost any other Mariinsky ballerina and you will see. Lopatkina just does them differently :-)