Прекрасная, очаровательная Ольга, совершенство в балете. Как щедро одарила природа!! Семен- родился принцем. Столько изысканной лёгкости. Успехов по жизни!!
Olga Smirnova you ignore EVERYONE being mean. YOu have great talent and I enjoyed watcing you. Don't let them tell you what you are you be who you want to be! smh. Does no one watching ballet for free get this is a PERSON a young person dancing! Even if she were 80 yu have no business tearing her up!
I only swear by S.Guillem and for the first time I see a talent, a dancer, who reminds me of the kind of dancers I use to know as a kid, like Noella Pontois or Makarova, Pavlova, Kirkland, Farrell... Who disappeared after Sylvie's reign to bring dancers who were trying to copy her style often for the worst outcome. At last, this young jewel appears.
+angle a obtuse But she got already the Benois de la dance award, and furthermore she is a prima ballerina in the Bolshoi from this season. She should be a great dancer then.
I have to add this for the haters out there in LaLa Land: If you're going to say you dislike something by all means say WHY!!! You become nothing more than a troll when all you provide is distaste for something without details. If your going to criticize then add what exactly it was that you didn't like! If you can't quite put it to words then compare her with someone whom you do like then break it down with your expertise. But until then the people who see greatness within her have been running the heart and soul of ballet since the 1740's and I would put my money with them over the opinions of once upon a time dancers or dancers whom have gotten noticed by anyone more than the florist who provides the core roses to wave around up stage while Olga is dancing. Harsh maybe but no worse than some of the garage comments that do nothing more than make the one posting it feel a little better about themselves. Much love and admiration from Phoenix Az. USA.
Firstly, her technique is wonderful. That's the thing with Russian dancers, their technique is fabulous. It's always the interpretation, the feeling, the character, the imagination of the role that is lacking. I have the same complaint for almost all dancers coming from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky. I don't greatly dislike Smirnova, I just feel like she commits the same "mistake" that other dancers commit when doing Swan Lake. Their evil, cunning Black Swan is always a template, it is robotic and only complemented by a manic grin here and there (if you're lucky). That's it. The grin is all the "character" I see. Smirnova simply does the steps, puts on a fake, unchanging expression and does more aggressive arm movements. Same goes for Zakharova. Are they bad dancers? No. But their interpretations and their acting are completely lost, if non-existent to begin with. As per your suggestion, I will include a dancer that I find wonderful in this role: Gillian Murphy. You can debate whether she has the same technique, etc., but I love Gillian's interpretation because I see Odile, *not* the ballerina performing Odile.
Wow. This is a real Odile. A lot of famous ballerinas don't actually inhabit the role like she does here. I prefer the traditional Odile variation music; this is the original variation from the premiere.
Although I still think that Olga Smirnova is a little young to have a full grasp of Odile's character, and she will probably always be a better Odette, I adored the fouettes. She looked like she enjoyed every moment of doing them, which is so rare. I've seen so many dancers with fixed smiles or even just a look of deep concentration, during the fouettes, but I thought she looked like she was loving it, and if she can keep that in the future, I think she will be a very wonderful Odette/Odile.
This was two years after her graduation. While I usually like Olga's dancing, I feel like maybe it was too soon to do Odette/Odile. When you think about it, most people she graduated with are still in the corps de ballet of a company and she's a leading soloist with the Bolshoi. She wouldn't be where she is if she lacked what it takes. Surely she has a great deal of potential and talent but this role requires maturity too. I believe she'll get there, give her some time.
Smirnova was absolutely beautiful, so much character and charm it really emanated from her. Everyone that has their bias about some other dancers interpretation shouldn't watch. To suggest she is robotic but not like her interpretation because it is different to someone else's you like ie Zakharova well it just defeats the purpose! You undermine your own point - if they all had the same interpretation it would be robotic across the board... Smirnova has a clear connection to the music - a real understanding and musicality about her dancing.
+Kohzo Yoshioka Basic placement/ turnout and feet problematic. Her arms are worse now than at Vaganova, and the mannerisms have deepened not for the better. As a result sometimes her dancing can look like caricature or cartoonish.
Chudin was great in this pas. I personally am not a fan of his placement and alignment of his arms and neck but he flaunts his flexibility. That was probably the best split in a menage I have ever seen. And with such speed! Besides all that, he is a good partner and his feet are to die for!!
Chudin is great! i love him, not only his lines, he is so mature. i do not like to talk bad of a performer, but she al the coda was weak and insecure, maybe a bad night, all we have bad moments, the part i really dislike is the end, the grand porte final, she just remain and Simion has to leave her up from zero... she does not help, thats not correct, if you are tired so sorry i must help your partenaire. just my opinion. Thanks for share
To all people complaining about her arms and her doing something wrong - i guess you can do everything way better right? I would love to see that! So ridiculous... She is not perfect but so close to it. She is one of the worlds best dancers. In 2011 she graduated from the vaganova school in st. petersburg and joined the bolshoi theater. She has danced title roles already...
take a look the video black swan the two sancers dance like having a conversation, thse i note she is a Little proud so much proud and the man is a little fat, is incredeble but vey thing just to fit, face, body, personality.
I honestly fell like men soloists are more entertaining to watch than all these tortured ballerinas en pointe. I could watch them pirouette and high jump all over the stage all day.
this might be just me, but i enjoyed her interpretation and not everyone has to have the same taste. Also she is still growing as an artist. And Odile is trying to lure the prince in so although he doesn't see it she IS a cold and detached character, but you know everyone has their own opinions on characters
I've never seen Chudin before, but I found him to be expressionless and therefore a very difficult partner to connect to. There is no sense of his being thoroughly enamored of her. He is mostly stone-faced. Re Smirnova, I believe that she was dancing with an injury. She was out of dance for a long, long time afterwards.
причём здесь вариация из па де де Чайковского Баланчина которую танцевал Чудин ? Смирнова плохо подготовила Одиллию, надо каждую позу вынашивать часами закрывшись в зале и несколько лет протанцевать в кор де балете. Это не уровень звёзд русского балета...
daniela sala well my friend I don't like your interpretation of your dislike. If you're going to say you dislike something by all means say WHY!!! You become nothing more than a troll when all you provide is distaste for something. If your going to criticize then add what exactly it was that you didn't like about her fouettes! If you can't quite put it to words then compare he with someone whom you do like then break it down with your expertise. But until then the people who see greatness within her have been running the heart and soul of ballet since the 1740's.
