MAYA’S BLACK SWAN VS WHITE SWAN 😱✨ 

Yes but she was dancing other styles before that age.

If I'm not mistaken, Maya started training ballet at the age of 5.

I'm pretty sure she started dancing other styles at the age of 3 and then at 12/13 she started doing ballet. Anyways, her talent, dedication and crazy hard work are paying off and I'm sure that with her work ethic she will go so far 👏👏👏

​@@user-fb7lg3tl8o she used to dance before, but she only started ballet specifically when she was 12

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. And that's why Maya is such a wonderful and talented dancer.

This channel is a gift

I was about to comment that! Thanks a lot Eva for sharing Maya's incredible performance!

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I can't stop looking at them! Such beautiful lines!

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Her arms sold me the most on the difference in characters. Lovely in both

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Yes Maya noticeably improves as she continues through the variation. Her arms get softer and her control gets better.

She was practicing at MBA while visiting during this past winter break, in preparation for her debut. (Meaning, it was a year and a half after she graduated and joined RSB.)

I thought they gave her SL while she was still nominally in the Corps. Some companies do make "deals" with certain dancers, like we're requires to start you out in the Corps, but plan on soloist in your 2nd year and principal in your 3rd. I think both Marianela Nunez and Alina Cojacaru entered the Royal this way.

She Is already a demi soloist

@@dancer_rina- what does that mean? (sorry, non-dancer here.) If Maya is in the lead role, doesn’t that make her the prima ballerina? If she isn’t, why is the prima ballerina not performing in the role? Is she doing another ballet? Will Maya be performing as the lead every night? I’ve been to the ballet in London a few times, but I’m pretty clueless on how it all works.

@@sian2337so she isn’t a principal but she is a soloist which means most of the time she does play lead roles but other times she is part of the corps i think

​@@sian2337 she won't be dancing the lead role every night, I've read there are different casts on different nights ;)

If you get the chance to see one, do it, it's the most incredible experience. It's not like watching a movie, it's all there, happening in front of you, it draws you in, I know you'll love it. Some companies do matinée performances for schools etc, you might get a cheap ticket that way, or maybe it's mot they expensive where you are. To see the Royal Ballet in London cost a fortune. I was lucky my father was a super fan of opera and ballet, he'd often take me or if someone dropped out he'd take me. I loved the ballet so much. Unfortunately I wasn't very good at it.

You expressed this so well!!

She is second soloist now, her Swan was such a huge success!

@@LunaLightbringer what does second soloist mean exactly? is that equivalent to, say, playing second chair in an orchestra?

@@seventysevenquestions im not familiar with systems other than english/american and french but since principal/etoile get titular roles, soloists/permiers danseurs also get to have them sometimes but do secondary roles then demi soloists would be sujets, and in the case of french ballet, they sometimes get titular roles, but rarely, or they dance pas de deux or parts of the ballet that stand out that are not danced by the corps so maya would be in the latter case, but she's done a major role!! i know that its not really mind blowing for us in france to see sujets/demi soloists have titular roles, but it is still quite exceptional, and attests to the bright future the dancer has ahead of them (an example is guillaume diop, recently named étoile/principal, who skipped the soloist rank, and from sujet was named étoile) i hope that helps?? if anyone wants to correct me on the equivalence and the subtleties of which roles the demi soloists get, please feel free to add on, as all of this is what ive gathered, and assumed based on the french system's equivalence, after brief checking

She's a miracle

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