Where is she now? Is she still alive? Is she not dancing now? I can't find anywhere on the web now 🥺🥺🥺 She's a great talent that inspires me, it would be nice to know her progress, or at least that she still alive, in time of this pandemic 🥺🥺🥺
@@Ihmekummatossu I'm glad if she's happy in her new married life. But such a shame that she gave up a dancing career! A friend of mine who is about her age, just recently gave up her dream of a fabulous career as an opera singer, for the same reason. Again, I'm glad for her, but what a loss to the opera world!
Yes, it seems like this is what these competition dancers do. No wonder some of them burn out like Miko Fogarty did. Gisele Bethea got married and left ABT too (although she might come back...). BTW there is a couple of videos here when a couple of girls dancing adult variations and with history of competitions come to a Russian talent show where Tsiskaridze - a former famous ballet dancer, now a rector at Vaganova academy - is one of the judges. Each time he tells them to stop dancing adult variations, audition for the academy where, if accepted, they'll start from the beginning. Tsiskaridze might be arrogant and not very nice, but from my completely ignorant opinion, he seems to make sense.
jewelmarkess I've danced since I was a kid and I'm used to going to competitions as well, but here in Brazil it's not very common to see children with high-heeled shoes and dancing these variations. the most common are "Blue Bird", "Paysant" and "Coppelia" which are the ones that we started the repertoire here. there are exceptions like this girl in the video, but still, they get criticized for not having the maturity to dance such adult choreographies
I've never had classes, my mother did, she was even accepted to Vaganova academy when she was a child, but her father wouldn't let her. She was actually grateful when she grew up, didn't think she'd be any good. I live in the US now, but I grew up in Russia, in St Petersburg (when it was still Leningrad), so even though I don't dance, I know quite a lot about the Russian system. These days there are private studios that teach kids variations, but state academies like Vaganova, Bolshoi, and a few others don't do it. These academies are all about overall technique. Some kids dance kids' dances or roles in affiliated theaters and school performances, they also have a concert at the end of each year, but with routines choreographed specifically to their skill level which most often are not variations. But who stays or who goes depends entirely on their grade on the classical dance exam at the end of the year, so they cannot even spend as much time on variations as competition dancers do. One or two years before graduation, several students might go to competitions e.g. Vaganova Prix, but not younger kids.
