Miss Zakharova is currently the lighter-than-a-feather-weight champ of the ballet realm. To call her a soon to be "Prima Ballerina Absolutta" is not to do her even the slightest bit of justice. She truly is the Maya Plisetskaya or Natalia Makarova of her day. She seems to have been made specifically for the art of ballet. Everything here shows she was. Her never-ending extensions, her perfectly-structured ballet feet and the face of a truly great theater star. --For This Goddess, Dane Youssef
Спасибо за возможность сравнить исполнительниц Авроры Прекрасные Лучшей показалась Светлана Захарова лёгкая изящная но я очень люблю Спящую в исполнении Алины Сомовой
Not a good performance. No sense of character at all. Just going through the motions, and too thin for my taste. has to be more than extreme technique.
She doesnt lift her arm up between princes following 6:54 - not very exciting and the whole thing lacks charm. As with all of this production, it was all very regimented and technical but lacked in soul and emotion.
True however her touches are light. Many others, including Lopatkina, you can clearly see the balances are not very stable. Not only do they wave back and forth, but you can see they struggled with releasing that hand. And yes I’m talking about the ones who didn’t lift the arms either. And also zakharova is past her prime here. There is an earlier version of her dancing this when she was still in her prime that she lifted her hands higher in the first balancing sequence, and the touches and movements are even more gentle. And although she didn’t lift her arms in the first sequence she did fo it for the end sequences which were completely stable balances as well as gentle touches. It was quite an astonishing performance.
