Amazing 5th Year Vaganova Student Beyond Anyone's Imagination
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Amazing 5th Year Vaganova Student Beyond Anyone's Imagination
When looking at this video, you might think that the world's greatest ballerina came to take a class at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet with the regular students. You would be wrong, because the girl in this video is not a principal ballerina for the Mariinsky or Bolshoi, but was taking a 5th year class with her fellow Vaganova 5th year students. For a ballerina, whose technique is secondary to all her amazing gifts, such as amazing arms, flowing upper body and expressive face, the two exercises in this video, demonstrate a student, like nobody has ever seen. The opening pirouette from a grand plie is beyond anyone's understanding. She makes a complete pirouette, which is nothing special, but she finishes on balance and maintains that balance for a long period, with a perfect passe to a develop front, all on balance,until the exercise forces her raised leg to pass through first position, which forces her to lower her heel that has been balancing from the beginning of her pirouette. She never takes that heel down, until the exercise forces her to pass through first position. There are many great videos of great ballerinas doing amazing things, but seeing what this 5th year student does, is beyond anything any of the great YouTube videos show. This 5th year student would have looked in the right place, taking class with the 10 greatest ballerinas in the world, and she would have been better than almost everyone in that class.
YouTube | September 1, 2011
