Алина Сомова лебедь Мариинский балет Alina Somova Dying Swan 

Обожаю её! Цепляет невероятно. Однозначно талантлива.

Yes, mesmerizing--emotional, tender, sad, words can't express what she has done with this famous ballet. Thank you for posting it for us.

Великолепно!!!

She was always a natural and always musical. Thrilling to watch her grow as an artist! Give me a thirty year old dancer over a twenty year old any day. I look forward to seeing her in person one day.

She brings so much magic into the stage, I'm totally impressed by her quality of movement, simply stunning!

This is so beautiful and sensitive! It makes me cry

ГЕНИАЛЬНАЯ БАЛЕРИНА! СМЕНИЛА АННУ ПАВЛОВУ!

She has become a great artist - and, she keeps topping herself. Thank you for posting!

Thanks so much ffor this beautiful performance and so beautifully filmed too. I saw Somova a few years ago doing Nikiya in the Shade scene of Bayadere. I have never seen it better performed.

It is exhilarating to watch this old as the world piece by a ballerina as young as Alina! And being Somova means offering her very own, heart felt interpretation and not something that balletomanes come to expect. Good for her! She keeps this art form alive!

Mesmerizingly beautiful! My word can't describe anymore...

So very beautiful....gorgeous hands and arms.

Too good to be true. Great great arms.

Just few days ago I was wondering what Alina's Dying Swan would be like but I didn't expect to find out so soon! And I didn't expect that she would be so amazing. It's just unbelivable how she turned into great artist. She has everything: she's emotional, she has incredible arms and musical sensitivity. Bravo Alina!

A truly great performance.. Arms, back, so expressive, heart breaking!

Thank you so very much for posting. A truly moving experience. Her stellar technique allows her emotion and artistry shine through beautifully. I was brought to tears by her interpretation. Thank you again.

Thank you for this beautiful piece of art!

Gorgeous, just perfect

Beyond words.

It is gorgeous and shows how much Somova has grown and improved as a dancer and as a ballerina. Some post below mentions Suzanne Farrell; I agree. There were moments in Somova's performance as the Tsar Maiden in The Little Humpbacked Horse that reminded me of Farrell in their daring freedom, grandeur and beautiful natural quality. I used to dismiss her as gawky and unmusical, which she often was - but have now come to admire her as a special and wonderful artist.

This is amazing how real her pain is. She is an unbelievable creature and an undeniable artist.

Amazing

Великолепно!Но для меня лучший "Умирающий лебедь"-это неподражаемая Майя Плисецкая!

I strongly counter what sweetaliena says about Nadezshda Pavlova. I cant say if Nadezshda Pavlova was missing something or anything in some of her roles or in some of the pockets of her artistic being because i havent seen everything, to say the least. I cant dispute many people and many critics saying the same thing about someone, if that is true. I cant address that. I dont know. I can only address what i have seen. What i know is that Nadezshda Pavlova was absolutely brilliant. A marvel. I don't need to read hundreds of opinions to think or be convinced otherwise. At 17 Nadezshda Pavlova's Nutcracker pas de deux wowed the world and she rendered a spectacular level of technical brilliance that i had not seen before. She was one of the earliest dancers who had that unimagineable extension that broke all prior records! (so to speak). In present times thousands and thousands of beautiful dancers have those exquisite extensions that go endlessly up to the sky. But Nadezshda Pavlova was one of the first i'd ever seen who could do those extensions to that uncanny degree and have that level of technical brilliance. She was absolutely unique. A magnificent entity of striking balletic beauty. We young balletomanes at the time would compare Nadezshda Pavlova and Gelsey Kirkland endlessly. I think they were both 17 at the time so they were endledy fascinating to everyone, to compare and to be utterly amazed by. I remember thinking that it seemed like fated from the heavens that this new great young prodigy ballet dancer could have the immortal name Pavlova!!!! It didnt seem real! It was incredible! I remember thinking after first seeing and knowing of the new striking balletic star from Balanchine, Gelsey Kirkland, i didnt think it could get better. But along came Nadezshda Pavlova and it did. Of course Gelsey Kirkland was a wonderful and sublime and magnificent and unique dancer as well. That is understatement. I admire Gelsey Kirkland tremendously. She conquered Balanchine technique as well as what i call the russian technique. Kirkland idolized Natalia Makarova and worked painstakingly and rigorously at gaining that certain fluidity of movement of a certain kind that the Balanchine technique didnt have or was different from in the rich Russian balletic technique. I deeply love Balanchine and in a way it's apples and oranges but that's another chapter for another time! I digress! The way Nadezshda Pavlova carried herself. Her facial expressions and just her entire way of moving and stepping and holding her body was gorgeous and you could know it was she straight off. No one had that electrical presence to the degree that she did, such was her unique look and carriage and vibrance. Nadezshda Pavlova had one of the most sparkling energy projections that i've ever seen. It was like she was elevated, lit up, pulled by a string making her limbs do all these wonderful things and with a demeanor of deep feeling and dignity yet with a theatrical elegance and grandness, composure and self-containment. In that Nutcracker pas de deux it was as if her great love of ballet she was honoring every second. She had that sacredity about it. (Kirkland did also.) Nadezshda Pavlova and Vachyslav Gordeyev were unbelievable together. Nadezshda Pavlova's Giselle is sublime. She was an incredible dancer. An artist. I have not seen everything she has done. Not by a thousand long shots. And unfortunately that's true of all the ballet dancers i have loved and witnessed for decades. But one need only look at some of the youtube videos to see how unique and spectacular Nadezshda Pavlova was. I remembered being so fascinated by Perm. I thought, wow, this magnifcent creature came from Perm! What is that place! It put Perm in my consciousness that it could produce such an amazingly beautiful and spectacular dancer. For many of us Nadezshda Pavlova put Perm on the map! Her purity and facial expressions and crisp and sharp style had a flash of the great Ekeratina Maximova but she was just totally and immediately identifiable and a look all her own. She was like a magnificent creature of beauty- pristine, a swan, a thoroughbred. She will forever be Russian Ballet Royalty... ***

ommmgggg did you see her on stage :O :O How lucky are you!!!!

You need a camera to zoom in her fingers and arms. Truly Vaganova arms.

@MrRight1000 CONTD. I saw a bit of her Giselle on RU-vid and I've got to say, she was incredible. She's still got to work on her acting, like in this video, her body expressed the pain, the lingering and death but in her face lacked more depth. She's on her path of becoming one of the greatest Russian ballerinas. She's becoming an artist and I'm glad for her.

@FerocityQueen Dancenet used to be young and cheerful place before they flooded it with way too many commercials advertising dance ware etc.

Лучший "Умирающий лебедь" - это исполнение Анны Павловой

Да будет классика, но не застой, ну хоть что-то свое нужно вносить, усовершенствовать, а не только подражать

@sweetaliena I disagree. Most certainly Alina had that WOW factor in her early variations. Hundreds of thousands people watched her Paquita variation and fell in love with ballet in the process. These were not lead roles, granted. But those who were lucky to see Somova’s debut in Swan Lake when she was just 18, were wow-ed. As for Nadezhda Pavlova - she was an accomplished ballerina at 16 and passé at 23, fate of most wunderkinds.

does anyone has dying swan by galina mezentseva

@MrRight1000 First, Nadezhda Pavlova wasn't passé, she retired, so it's not fate. Second, you're one of the few who liked her. She was criticized WORLDWIDE. The big majority were negative! Look at the press, the forums, even early videos of her, mostly all negative. She didn't have any wow factor, she was just incredibly flexible. She didn't have no artistry. She was just the Mariinsky response to Svetlana Zakharova. I give credit when it's due, she is now growing into her title.

@PlanetBallet Balletomanes and ballet critics have a better understanding of ballet because they have knowledge and many have seen the greats dancing on stage or even are former dancers than just ballet lovers. YOU maybe don't care, a lot care about what they say because some of them have an inside look at many ballet companies. I value their opinions, I don't always agree with them but they give a lot of good insight. And please don't assume anything about me because you don't know me.

@sweetaliena Personally, I don’t see why she needed to improve in the first place. A thirty year-old must dance like a thirty year-old while a teenaged budding ballerina should dance like one. There is time for every season and there is no no urgency whatsoever to hasten one’s natural development, certainly not to please old farts from ballet-talk. Somova was absolutely intoxicating in her early variations and now she came to her own as a maturing world famous dancer.

@MrRight1000 Like you said,no urgency to hasten her natural development. But in her case, that is what happened. She was too young to be a principal dancer. She didn't have the WOW factor like Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nadezhda Pavlova or even Natalia Osipova to be propulse to principal. She was disconnected emotionally, her lines weren't beautiful, her technique wasn't clear and perfected. These attributes come with time. And now, she became the more of a principal dancer.

She surely got better. It's good but not great IMO.

@opensecret51 Again, thank nina not me! I'm just a messenger.

Согласна с Вами - холодно что -то и неуютно....

@balanchinedancer I don't go to Ballet-Alert.

Алина

i prefer Lopatkina

ГЛИСТА!!!!