@@SKS6184- Having high extensions doesn't mean you have the best technique. Svetlana keeps her hips square when she lifts her leg which is good technique but most dancers that I see on Instagram, sacrifice their hip placement to get higher extensions. It's better to do a perfect 90 degree extension than a terrible one with uneven hips at 180.
Vaganova Ballet Academy is known for the best quality in training, and the most beautiful ballerina’s to ever hit the circuit worldwide! Russia is now the greatest creators for the top ballet performers to ever be created!
Nope. That site’s probably a fad or a Royal Ballet fan. Top ballet companies are mostly affiliated to a Ballet school like White Lodge to RB, BBA to Bolshoi or Vaganova to Mariinsky. Most of RB Principal didn’t even study or graduated there. Compare to Mariinsky, RB is just a second tier company.
Amen to that Daniel...Vaganova is the grandmother of all ballet schools as Agrypina Vaganova's book is a base for all teaching, at Vaganova and Bolshoi. Majority of most famous dancers graduated there and many were teachers of younger generations of famous dancers. So saying that RB is the best is laughable. I have a friend in England who studied ballet there but had to stop dancing due to injury.. she said students and dancers are not getting the attention or training Russians are getting. Especially now at Vaganova, the current rector (and Zakharova's long time partner) is very strict but very loving towards his students and not only teaching them how to dance but how to be artists, takes them to libraries, museums, opera and concerts, has them read literature and librettos of ballets they are dancing, teaches them how to feel the characters they dance as he was the master of it himself being coached by famous dancers / teachers himself like Semyonova, Ulanova, Fadeyechev, Chabukiani, Pestov. RB can only dream about it. And being a former Bolshoi dancer and teacher he coached many current premier dancers there.
She is the only one on the screen. It was like that with Marilyn Monroe. Even great beauties literally just disappear next to her. Charisma is such a gift.
Beautiful. I love watching them when they are "baby ballerinas". Barre work is a bit dull unless you dance or teach ballet and can see the perfection in these students.
Casey Floresca I guess some people are natural. That’s why she’s very famous now. And practice is so important she probably loves what she does so much
Lots to love, and I’m no expert, but if I had to guess why she stands out: 1.her torso is proportion to her abnormally long limbs, which makes her physically unique. 2. She takes the time to hear, listen, and feel the music (another girl on the right side of the room interprets the music similarly). Sveta never rushes, which makes her movements smoother. 3. Her hyper-extensions of every limb. 4. Her grace: pause the video when the girls are stretching out an arm, notice Sveta is stretching through her fingertips and ever so slightly bending back on the wrist. It’s a level of grace even some adult ballerinas still work to improve. 5. She keeps her chin up and looks at the audience, almost as if she’s performing. It’s more than just showing off: she interpreting the music and movements and connecting with her spectators. When the camera zooms in on her, look at how her eyes look to the audience and not downward. She shows confidence in doing this. 6. Just pure talent and charisma combined with perfect technique and love for the art. It’s like she was born to be a prima ballerina. Sometimes there’s no other way to explain it.
That poor girl on the far left in the middle. I'm sure she is an amazing dancer and is definitely more talented than I but next to Svetlana the girl's developpes don't look as good.
i don't know anything about ballet and i guessed zakharova was the schools, teacher name etc. but when watching she was the one that caught my attention even in the thumbnail
Hacen días que había visto el video y ahora entre a los comentarios...y por lo que entendí de mi escaso vocabulario en inglés es la segunda de la izquierda...y es la más delicada esbelta con mucha gracia y elegancia...
Elena Yevteyeva was, is and always will be a great teacher. So when i hear now that Oxana Skorik is so bad because she has ~a wrong coaching~ inside Mariinsky i feel very upset. It's not the reason. Thanks for an interesting upload
oxana always had superb teaching before in perm with madame lidya ulanova and legendary madame sakharova and now should be blessed by superb coaching by madame yevteyeva ,but being skorik without talent also GOD in person could do nothing with her
+pediatrapaola Yes... Moreover that Yevteyeva is a regular coach of Kolegova and one of Tereshkina's coaches. Of two best technicians in the theather! Such great teacher deserves only best material for work. While Skorik feels like pain in everybody's ass in MT. Fateyev himself ones said that she has an unbearable character. And partners must hate working with her. She's so dangerous and has zero coordination. She must be grateful to this gimmick doc Beatiful Tragedy to the end of her life. Otherwise she would never find herself in this theather. Harsh but true.
reanimato1 the only tragedy ,in that idiot documentary ,was that legendary madame sakharova true soul of perm accademy and great pedagogue was showed like a witch
reanimato1 in both the documentaries she was showed like an hard woman ,but in particoular in beautiful tragedy .l wonder when that moron director will stop to show that awful mediocre skorik as a prima expecially due the fact that many really whorty girls are still buried in low ranks
When i grow older I'm going to go to a dance school with my sister because I know how to do jazz, hip hop, modern, Irish dancing, belly dancing, Bollywood and tap. I can't do ballet and I hate acro
You can clearly notice which one is Svetlana Zakharova.. but I find it strange that there are some girls that are a big fat, I mean Imnot hating but todays balletdancer in the Vaganova are not allowed to be in that weight...
None of them are fat, some girls have bigger thighs because of bigger muscles, but pay attention to their flat belly and slim arms. They are not even slighty overweight...
Cisco Patineta it might be just that some of them look fat in black leotards like for me I barely ever wear a black leotard to a ballet class cause I look fat in it
Hopping all over the place in this video. I guess it WAS 20 years ago. Women didn't have to be as strong then as they do today, just flat turnout and high extensions. Now you need that AND strength with strong grounded turns with and no hopping.
Brittany Meyer This statement is so false. 20 yeas ago dancers only needed flat turnout & high extensions? I guess Svetlana needed no strength to dance Giselle at 18? This is an examination and at this point they are still students with only a handful of them securing places in a Ballet company. Not to mention these exercises are extremely revealing and difficult. Svetlana is one of the best in the world and it’s obvious here. Everyone pales in comparison.
The girl all the way to the left in the center was so out of sync I wanted to bang my head against a wall. WTF are you doing??? She wasn’t going at her own pace, she was just not on beat at ALL. Yes, I can say this, I practiced ballet for ten years, four on pointe, then turned to opera for the last seven years, so I know if someone’s doing something wrong.
Светлану трудно не узнать! Великолепные пропорции, феноменальная гибкость, музыкальность и техника зашкаливает! Браво, Светочка!
It is so easy spotting Zakharova in class .Her every moves are so perfect .
The body line, my god !!!!Beautiful !!!!
Which one?
@@ScorpioBeauty She's the one at the left of Vaganova's portrait :)
@@ScorpioBeauty the one with the highest extensions and best artistry
@@ScorpioBeauty 9:48
@@SKS6184- Having high extensions doesn't mean you have the best technique. Svetlana keeps her hips square when she lifts her leg which is good technique but most dancers that I see on Instagram, sacrifice their hip placement to get higher extensions. It's better to do a perfect 90 degree extension than a terrible one with uneven hips at 180.
Vaganova Ballet Academy is known for the best quality in training, and the most beautiful ballerina’s to ever hit the circuit worldwide! Russia is now the greatest creators for the top ballet performers to ever be created!
Hi Pete, and don't forget that the current Vaganova rector was her long time partner and they were so perfect together.
Some sources says that London's Royal Ballet is the number one.
Then you listen to bad sources... there is no better than Vaganova
Nope. That site’s probably a fad or a Royal Ballet fan. Top ballet companies are mostly affiliated to a Ballet school like White Lodge to RB, BBA to Bolshoi or Vaganova to Mariinsky. Most of RB Principal didn’t even study or graduated there. Compare to Mariinsky, RB is just a second tier company.
Amen to that Daniel...Vaganova is the grandmother of all ballet schools as Agrypina Vaganova's book is a base for all teaching, at Vaganova and Bolshoi. Majority of most famous dancers graduated there and many were teachers of younger generations of famous dancers. So saying that RB is the best is laughable. I have a friend in England who studied ballet there but had to stop dancing due to injury.. she said students and dancers are not getting the attention or training Russians are getting. Especially now at Vaganova, the current rector (and Zakharova's long time partner) is very strict but very loving towards his students and not only teaching them how to dance but how to be artists, takes them to libraries, museums, opera and concerts, has them read literature and librettos of ballets they are dancing, teaches them how to feel the characters they dance as he was the master of it himself being coached by famous dancers / teachers himself like Semyonova, Ulanova, Fadeyechev, Chabukiani, Pestov. RB can only dream about it. And being a former Bolshoi dancer and teacher he coached many current premier dancers there.
I never heard of her and i don’t know anything about ballet, but i immediately noticed her and knew which one she was. she really stands out
Coolio She is now considered one of the best in the world. :)
I’m so glad ballet exists and there are people willing to put in the years and years of hard work to learn it because it’s honestly so beautiful
This is the most beautiful barre work I've ever seen.
peninahkitty Agreed. Vaganova teachers create the most beautiful barre combinations.
I had no idea which one she was and then the lifts started happening and it's like "oh... right there"
which one is she
Ella Luna please could you tell me who she is😊
the girl, who is dancing under vaganova's portrait. (#2).look at lines of body
YES
@@AliceLampton There is no one dancing directly under the portrait, one is dancing to the left of it and one is dancing to the right of it.
She is the only one on the screen. It was like that with Marilyn Monroe. Even great beauties literally just disappear next to her. Charisma is such a gift.
Beautiful. I love watching them when they are "baby ballerinas". Barre work is a bit dull unless you dance or teach ballet and can see the perfection in these students.
Why is she so clearly the best? Like, I know very little about ballet but I LOVE it.. and even so, she stands out among everyone else.
Why is that?
Casey Floresca I guess some people are natural. That’s why she’s very famous now. And practice is so important she probably loves what she does so much
Lots to love, and I’m no expert, but if I had to guess why she stands out: 1.her torso is proportion to her abnormally long limbs, which makes her physically unique. 2. She takes the time to hear, listen, and feel the music (another girl on the right side of the room interprets the music similarly). Sveta never rushes, which makes her movements smoother. 3. Her hyper-extensions of every limb. 4. Her grace: pause the video when the girls are stretching out an arm, notice Sveta is stretching through her fingertips and ever so slightly bending back on the wrist. It’s a level of grace even some adult ballerinas still work to improve. 5. She keeps her chin up and looks at the audience, almost as if she’s performing. It’s more than just showing off: she interpreting the music and movements and connecting with her spectators. When the camera zooms in on her, look at how her eyes look to the audience and not downward. She shows confidence in doing this. 6. Just pure talent and charisma combined with perfect technique and love for the art. It’s like she was born to be a prima ballerina. Sometimes there’s no other way to explain it.
Their barre is more difficult than most center work anywhere else in the world. Amazing.
I found her almost right away because of the body line, the proportion, the flexibility, and the musicality... she’s extraordinary now and then
what a precious footage! thank you for sharing!
:D
oooh I had search for this video for so long! Zakharova is so different, so unique. Thank you for sharing this
you're welcome :D
Svetlana is my favorite prima ballerina, I also like Gillian Murphy & Natalia Osipova...
Svetlana is the second one (left to right) at the barre in the middle wall of the class. This one: 9:49 .
Thank you, Lorena!!
That poor girl on the far left in the middle. I'm sure she is an amazing dancer and is definitely more talented than I but next to Svetlana the girl's developpes don't look as good.
Elizabeth McMahon i caught that as well
i don't know anything about ballet and i guessed zakharova was the schools, teacher name etc. but when watching she was the one that caught my attention even in the thumbnail
Deniz Erisen Svetlana Zakharova is a very famous ballerina, she is the one on the left on the thumbnail
i figured it out in the middle of watching the video thanks :D
Lara Romano she’s actually on the right
it's been 20 years after this exam and zakharova still broking my heart ♥
Moonbyul and after 20 years you still cant spell correctly
Breaking*😊
She can be recognized from the first glance in faraway sight. Thanks for posting this video to recall her early age.
LISTEN HERE all of them have beautiful turnout, extensions, feet, and back flexibilty. Can i kill myself yet?
I’m sure you have strengths of your own...and why compare yourself with the best in the world?
comparison is the thief of joy (i am 7 years late, but the point still stands)
Svetlana truly is a Goddess when she takes the floor!
Very good pianist !
To be honest, you can kinda tell who made an who didn't. Either that, or Zakharova's just too perfect. xD
rebecca Lei Idk which one she is ??
Millie Thomson left of painting
Both Zakharova and Pavlenko are amazing on their exercises but Zakharova is undoubtedly the best among this graduates.
Thanks for sharing! Svetlana is gorgeous!
Hacen días que había visto el video y ahora entre a los comentarios...y por lo que entendí de mi escaso vocabulario en inglés es la segunda de la izquierda...y es la más delicada esbelta con mucha gracia y elegancia...
delmira aravena yo tbn jaja
delmira aravena es muy fácil de reconocer Svetlana
This barre work is so challenging wow. Such strength and grace!
Gee I wonder which one she is? Could she be in the front second from the left?! I'm not a ballerina but even I can see she's a talented little lady.
she is on the left of the photo
her LEGS! ♥
Ohh I thought it was the girl on the right of the photo
Misaki Alyssa no doubt both girls whoever they are directly under the picture frame are the most precise
Front second from right and also from left both did great... 2nd left nailed second part of the vid, 2nd right one was amazing at start. :^)
Good lord.. just perfection and grace.
She's technically perfect AND has It factor. She really stands out.
Elena Yevteyeva was, is and always will be a great teacher. So when i hear now that Oxana Skorik is so bad because she has ~a wrong coaching~ inside Mariinsky i feel very upset. It's not the reason.
Thanks for an interesting upload
oxana always had superb teaching before in perm with madame lidya ulanova and legendary madame sakharova and now should be blessed by superb coaching by madame yevteyeva ,but being skorik without talent also GOD in person could do nothing with her
+pediatrapaola Yes... Moreover that Yevteyeva is a regular coach of Kolegova and one of Tereshkina's coaches. Of two best technicians in the theather! Such great teacher deserves only best material for work. While Skorik feels like pain in everybody's ass in MT. Fateyev himself ones said that she has an unbearable character. And partners must hate working with her. She's so dangerous and has zero coordination. She must be grateful to this gimmick doc Beatiful Tragedy to the end of her life. Otherwise she would never find herself in this theather. Harsh but true.
reanimato1 the only tragedy ,in that idiot documentary ,was that legendary madame sakharova true soul of perm accademy and great pedagogue was showed like a witch
+pediatrapaola Really? I don't remember that. Are you sure ir was in BT, too? Surely it was in Captives of Terpsichore but in BT?
reanimato1 in both the documentaries she was showed like an hard woman ,but in particoular in beautiful tragedy .l wonder when that moron director will stop to show that awful mediocre skorik as a prima expecially due the fact that many really whorty girls are still buried in low ranks
A Svetlana Zakharova se destaca fácil. Principalmente o seu físico.
Her arms are the easiest giveaway. Like clouds on a warm gentle breeze 🤍🤍🤍
I'm very happy to see Pavlenko in class. She's a wonderful dancer.
How can you tell who’s who?
7:34 Olha como a perna dela fica quando ela faz os movimentos!
Parece que não tá fazendo nenhum esforço! Ela é incrível!
😍
Forgive me, but I know little to nothing about ballet. I would just like to know which is Zakharova?? Thank you and have a nice day.
She's in the front, second from the left.
+Josue Munaylla Thank you!
Лучшая уже среди своих одноклассниц!
Realmente no sabía quien era y lo noté, no solo por sus extensiones, sino sus movimientos perfectos! 😍
Svetlana's upper body be like: Make way for the leg!!!!
Thank you soooooo much!!!!
Now we know where this talent came from. Of course Sveta calls our attention from the beginning, but WHAT IS THIS CLASS...
the composition is beautiful
She is right under the portrait
We can see two girls standing under the portrait,Svetlana is on left side,
6min26sec she is on the left
I was doubtful at first on who she was and the delicacy of her bodyline stood out.
There is no way to mistake Zakharova's développés
この時からもう既にすごいですね…
Who is the first girl at the right bar? She is perfect! I was sure thid id Zakharova, But in comments someone said she is at the front.
Oh, please go do your meaningless show off on someone else.
NikaLeStrange Svetlana is at the left of the photo of Vaganova :)
Where is the full video???? :( btw thanks for sharing
I said it before. Zakharova bores the hell out of me, but you can't deny her superior movement quality. And her control
are there any full length versions of this year's graduation exam?
When i grow older I'm going to go to a dance school with my sister because I know how to do jazz, hip hop, modern, Irish dancing, belly dancing, Bollywood and tap. I can't do ballet and I hate acro
whats the name of the first girl at the right barre? sorry for my english.I love svetlana .she is an astonishing prima ballerina.
You forgot the name of the pianist?
Someone please tell me the song
She is the best!
Magnificent!!
she is perfect
They obviously passed...
Does anyone know who lopatkina's professor was in vaganova?And has professor Yevteyeva also produced any other notable alumni other than zakharova?
which one of them is Svetlana
What shoes are they wearing for barre?
looks like ballet slippers with ribbons to me
Cassandra Scutchfield demi pointe shoes soft broken down toe shoes
turtle they are my mom graduated from school like this in Ukrain and she told me that's what they wear there
flats
who is Svetlana Zakharova?
Which one is svetlana at barre? 😍
yup ur right josue...
tan divinas bailan hermoso
waoooo😲😲😲😲
The girl to the right of Zakharova is also really good! Who is she?
In the middle bar is Svetlana the second from the right?
Lily Coombs from the left
Oh thank you!
Which is Svetlana in that class?
she’s the one with the highest extensions and most mature artistry but you can see her at 9:49
which one is zakharova
Brenda Anne Du Faur Under the protrait on the left. Her tights are slightly whiter than the rest
are they using point shoes all the class?
They're not wearing point shoes in this class I think :)
They wear point only in the second part of the class, this video is just the very beginning of the exam...
Alee Paino
No. Their flat shoes just have ribbons on them.
its great but quite disappointing by the fact that a lit of them weren’t synchronising, a lot werent doing it the same
How old is Svetlana here?
Either 16 or 17. She was the youngest graduate as she skipped to the graduating class.
Buona serra sei verramente una ballerina molto ,,purre io sono una ballerina ,non sono come te brava ,,viaguro cozi
The best in class is always put under the portrait I believe
All the girls are great but Svetlana is a cut above the rest
love it
You can clearly notice which one is Svetlana Zakharova.. but I find it strange that there are some girls that are a big fat, I mean Imnot hating but todays balletdancer in the Vaganova are not allowed to be in that weight...
Cisco Patineta I agree with you, but who's fat in this particular video? They're all really skinny.
2:33 the girl in the middle
None of them are fat, some girls have bigger thighs because of bigger muscles, but pay attention to their flat belly and slim arms. They are not even slighty overweight...
What a horrid thing to say.
Cisco Patineta it might be just that some of them look fat in black leotards like for me I barely ever wear a black leotard to a ballet class cause I look fat in it
Gosh that one on the right really fucked up!
The short, stubby one with the really dark hair? She was struggling somewhat.
Света такая куколка!
closest to the photo to the left of it.
coze belle nella danza e nella vita da ina kokeri
Which one is her lol
Lauren Coates apparently center barr directly left of the photo on the wall.
Their neck are so long it's creepy
Hopping all over the place in this video. I guess it WAS 20 years ago. Women didn't have to be as strong then as they do today, just flat turnout and high extensions. Now you need that AND strength with strong grounded turns with and no hopping.
Brittany Meyer This statement is so false. 20 yeas ago dancers only needed flat turnout & high extensions? I guess Svetlana needed no strength to dance Giselle at 18?
This is an examination and at this point they are still students with only a handful of them securing places in a Ballet company. Not to mention these exercises are extremely revealing and difficult. Svetlana is one of the best in the world and it’s obvious here. Everyone pales in comparison.
To find her i looked at their feet and the turnout in my head im like of so looking for the perfect one hummmmm oooh found her
They are wearing pointe shoes but not going on their toes? Lol whut why not just wear slippers
E E theyre not proper pointe shoes, theyre called soft pointes, the block isnt as hard as in actual pointe shoes
they’re wearing flat shoes that have ribbons tied around their ankles like pointe shoes but they’re not actual pointe shoes
The girl all the way to the left in the center was so out of sync I wanted to bang my head against a wall. WTF are you doing??? She wasn’t going at her own pace, she was just not on beat at ALL. Yes, I can say this, I practiced ballet for ten years, four on pointe, then turned to opera for the last seven years, so I know if someone’s doing something wrong.
Are you a vaganove graduate? Let’s guess no.
I think Ballet is Far Superior to Yoga.
David James they’re not even comparable tho, theyre two completely different disciplines with completely different principles
I guess satire would be lost on you. Yoga is over-hyped for both spiritual and physical well being. Period.
David James sorry but how is that satire?? and even if it was my point still stands, theyre not comparable at all
Ballet is an art yoga is for physical well-being. Not comparable.
Who said it wasn’t? It’s also even good for people who aren’t interesting in a career. It gives you a killer workout, so much better than yoga
10.36 of my life I won't get back 😴😴
Sapphiresinmyeyes notice how no one else in the comment section has the same opinion as you
y yg well...That's just fine, only my opinion!!