The girl from dutchballet is so impressive she may not be dancing regular classical ballet but i found the choreography and the aura of the dancer were mesmerising
So glad to see so many lovely upcoming ballet dancers. Seems as though they are finally able to really concentrate on dancing emotions again rather than exhausting themselves on acrobatic moves, e.g. the abuse of the almost 180 degrees leg which very often breaks the fluidity. Less is more and makes really talented performers sparkle and allows delicious footwork❤
@@elliottrogers735 To say what? I can't even look at Royal ballet... No turnout, no legs, everything slower, less Sharp... And to cofirm that, a lot of the dancers who currently work as soloist there come from Vaganova or Bolshoi. Why? Because they're better.
@@danza521 Go on then. List the Royal Ballet soloists who come from the Vaganova school. Should be easy for you since there are "a lot"... But since you "can't", or more correctly don't, look at the Royal Ballet, you can't make a list of one never mind "a lot". Without looking them up you probably couldn't name a single ballerina at the company. I can help you with a few dancers' names, all of whom your own dancing would surpass of course - Nuñez, Osipova, Hayward, Takada, Kaneko, O'Sullivan, Stix-Brunell, Magri... Vaganova school, did you say? Osipova comes from the Lavrovsky and Moscow State schools. Akane Takada was at the Bolshoi school for a short while - she is your list of one. Most ballet dancers the world over have the highest regard and respect for each other's abilities. It's a brutal, disciplined theatrical art that includes acting, not just double joints. I take it you know what "theatrical" means, and "acting"? We should have the highest regard for the dancers who graduate from the Vaganoval school. And the Bolshoi. And the Royal. And Paris and so on. And American - I bet you can't stand Skylar Brandt. Ballet snobs really are the worst, most ignorant and narrow-minded fools, and spout the most ridiculous trash. PS. When you speak of fast and slow, you seem to have no idea what choreography is. You don't seem to understand that it's not the dancers who decide the speed of the piece. As I said, ballet snobs spout the most ridiculous trash.
Loved the American Ballet Theatre lady, Skylar Brandt at 14:52. Great musicality, and such a joy and genuine feeling for dance that you don't always see.
i honestly think fumi kaneko is going to be the next huge thing, especially after dancing aurora last year. she has such a promising career ahead of her
definately taken too long. sometimes the royal can be a weird mob in not promoting dancers quick enough. Fumi has been a favourite of mine for a long while. the royal ballet does have a lot of great young talent at the moment, such a shame this dam pandemic has put many young performers lives on hold, carnt wait until i can see them again live. Many ballet ballet lovers think the russians are the only companies to produce top class dancers, maybe that was true in years gone by but times have changed and other companies produce incredible talent.
@@jillgooner I agree. I love The Royal Ballet but sometimes they don't promote their dancers quick enough or at all. I like Fumi, Anna Rose, and Yuhui Choe.
@Sara Shepard I agree. But she was the only one not in classical garb doing a classical piece. It unintentionally plays into the stereotype that black women don't have the technique or body type to be classical dancers.
@@LeeBeeDeeTree51 wow, really? Michaela IS a classical dancer who has both the technique and body, incredible facility and musicality. There are many videos of her doing classical on YT. I loved the piece they used here.
@@mademsoisellerhapsody1868 I'm not the person you have to convince. I KNOW that Michaela is a talented classical dancer. I've followed her career since the documentary First Position. I liked the contemporary piece. I just wanted to see her dancing a classical variation.
They’re all beautiful young dancers, will be interesting to follow them...my favorites are Daria Ionova and Maria Iliushkina, I think they have something special. I’m also a fan of Elena Kovaleva. (not on the list thou)
I'm astonished by the number of people that have give this list a thumbs down. These dancers might not be my exact choice, but they are all wonderful ballet dancers - what's not to like?
I honestly can’t understand the amount of thumbs down! It’s stunning. If you don’t like ballet , don’t watch. What’s not to like about 15 beautiful dancers who have all trained so hard. Yes, I rally could pick a few I really like but I won’t. And my choices come from everywhere. They’re all beautiful and the best of luck to them. Only thing ( and my problem!!) try as I may, I just can’t take to contemporary. No reason why they can’t choose that if that’s their preference but I’d love to see them doing something classical. Thank you so much. A delight to watch and good luck to,them all. I’m watching about a year on in November 2021. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Mesmerized by Daria Ionova, I had to go back and watch her part again. I rarely see such effortless fluidity in the arms and hands, soft all the way to her fingertips without the energy breaking at any point. Splendid dancing. Too often port the bras get overlooked for footwork, but it really finalizes the performance and pulls it all together when it's done well.
@@fionaerleigh Skylar Brant is a principal dances and yet she is on this list, she was a soloist too at the time of the making of this video. Also Fumi is a soloist as well. Personally I miss Maria Khoreva and May Nagasha too.
@@saratrencseni8045 yes these lists are always random and personal. That’s ok. I think Skylar may have been a soloist not principal at the time this video was made. Fumi is now a principal, and probably would have been one year ago if not for the pandemic 😉
Well, of course, the list is not in the order I would choose - what are the odds that you are going to agree with all 15 - but I had not seen some of these dancers, and thought they all represented a great future for us ballet lovers. One thing that struck me (Not a dancer, me, but a 70 year balletophile) that all the dancers seemed to exhibit a more fluid and expressive arm technique than the dancers of a decade go. What I don't get is the number of thumbs down - what's not to like about 15 wonderful dancers?
Except,Liz, Michaela de Prince, I think from Holland ?who is much more like a gymnast with a masculine body and even in a gymnasts outfit. Ballet is ballet and gymnastics are gymnastics.she would probably be a great gymnast!
She's danced O/O; she had her debut with Nikita Korneyev a few weeks ago. You can watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N1083lS8N8E.html
All were beautiful. However the Russian dancers in general had more fluidity in their arms. The western dancers seemed to add more personality to their performances.
that is too broad a generalization to make about vague terms like "personality", especially from a small clip of one differing performance from each, and the fact lot depends on music and choreography.
sittingnut1, I don’t think so. It might be a generalization by accident but it appears to be the truth, at least to me. And I’m not only judging by this tiny video. I think it’s the Vaganova influence. Every girl who has come in touch with her method is being taught to take a very good care of her arm posture. And almost all of Russian ballerinas are taught Vaganova method in class.
@@D.A.A.321 almost all of your sentences are false, and typically you merely asserted those prejudices without justifing any of them with facts and reason.
4160219212356701 sittingnut1, Alright, I’ll walk you through this. A prejudice is merely and opinion based on no prior observation whatsoever, so this word is totally out of place here, since my claim was based on a year long observation, you probably meant something else. Claim based on observation: Russian ballerinas have more fluidity in their arms (admittedly subjective). Reasoning: Fact number 1: almost all Russian schools teach Vaganova method. Fact number 2: Vaganova method stresses the importance of the fluidity in arms and expression. Whether this is a mere assertion is indeed left to your opinion based on your knowledge of classical ballet schools worldwide. Perceptions might be subjective and I might be wrong and you’re allowed to agree or disagree, but I just justified my observation with facts. You on the other hand base your disagreement on mere unsustainable claims about my reasoning ;)
@@D.A.A.321 prejudice what is not supported by facts or reason, your ridiculous claims(which btw are different from op's) are merely based on your own false assertions. get why your claims are prejudices? if not, ask someone with a brian to help you. you are the one making assertions, so it's you, not me, who should support them with facts and reason (not more assertions labeled "facts"). again get help to understand the logic.
Thank you for posting the video ! I too was surprised not to see Alena Kovaleva appearing on your top fifteen- I think she’s an extraordinary talent- or do you consider her to have already “ arrived” ? Notwithstanding that small gripe... keep up the good work and thank you for posting the video!
Rory Lee she’s definitely already at the top.. as a First soloist at Bolshoi, dancing major roles at important performances. Last weekend she was Myrtha in Giselle, and the performance was broadcasted all over the world in cinemas Edit: just saw at the Bolshoi webside that Alena is now even leading first soloist! Merely 5 years after Prix de Lausanne, where she didn‘t even make it to finals 🤦🏻♀️
The list is missing a few more Mariinsky soloists... Anastasia Lukina and May Nagahisa both have had leading roles already. And why include Renata if you're not going to include Maria Khoreva? Both are already 1st soloists.
I'd like to ask you, do you know if the video of Shakirova is quite recent? In the past I have seen footage of her graduation performance and her debut in Don Quixote, and remember I didn't really like her back then, but she absolutely killed this variation from Raymonda! I guess she really matured during her time in the company?
This variation was recorded in 2018. It's from a live broadcast of the ballet with Viktoria Tereshkina and Xander Parish as Raymonda and Jean de Brienne. You can watch the entire performance here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l0TyeUthjqc.html
Is it true that Maria attended VBA pre-ballet but wasn't taken afterwards, so she had to train at Kuramshin ballet school? If so.. how ironic. Seems like years later they noticed her potential.
@HamuAndXerxl - They took her, the problem was she refused to give up Kuramshin's school where she was as a kid, continued to perform there. They gave her an ultimatum - VBA or Kuramshin. She continued to do both, went to a competition without permission skipping classes (and telling she was sick). As a result, she was expelled after the first year. She continued studying with Kuramshin, then took additional private lessons to prepare for the VBA audition. She then auditioned again for the VBA and was accepted for their 6th (ballet) year which is post secondary (5th year is 5/9 - 5th ballet, 9 - academics, but she passed academics' exam by herself a year earlier.) So, she ended up a year ahead of girls she was with during the prep and first year. You can actually see her in the prep exam video here. (edited to add) The reason I know it is that there was a long post from her father in a Russian forum in 2014, right after she was expelled from the VBA.
Thank you so much for this! Such lovely dancers ... delighted to be introduced to some that I didn’t know, including Alexandra Khiteeva who was particularly charming. As a close follower of the Royal Ballet I’d agree 100% with your two choices there. 🙏🙏. So many more always coming along, I am currently looking out for Elizaveta Kokoreva (Bolshoi), Chloe Reveillon (Mariinsky), Laura Fernandez-Gromova (Stanislavsky), Annette Buvoli (RB), Mariko Sasaki (RB), Julia Conway (ENB), Francesca Velicu (ENB)
For some reason, the "most watched" feature does not work in this video. Shame, it would be easy to determine the "winner". My choice - Daria Ionova - is unlikely to coincide with the most popular. She is aristocratic and precise but above all she can mesmerize with her dance. And who needs art without magic?
My list would overlap with yours quite a bit! Ionova, Khiteeva, Iliushkina, Sevenard, Kaneko and I would add Elizaveta Kokoreva. (It's all very subjective, of course.)
@@lilbatz When she was a student, I honestly didn't get all the fuss about her. Now I do. Her port de bras, her musicality. She's breathtaking. She has something that can't be taught.
I would’ve exchanged Fumi and Anna Rose places and also add Mayara Magri to the list. All 3 are most likely to become principals for the Royal in a year or two.
@maseratic boychik I think she falls a lot under the same kind of roles which doesnt help her . That's why I highlighted Fumi and Mayara, because both have been doing for the past 2 seasons all kinds of roles and most of the time to great acclaim . This end of the season Fumi and Mayara will both debut as Odile and Odette in Swan Lake and it's telling that it has been many many years since a dancer in the company has danced this role and it's not either a principal or is promoted to principal.
@@nidzuj right? I knew I had written about those 3 being promoted somewhat together somewhere. Glad my hunch was right about them. My bet for male dancers is still Corrales ( who just got promoted), Clarke and Bracewell.
she's already a star - not an up and coming star. She has a massive following and dances as soloist at the Mariinsky and as a guest soloist all around the world at top ballet companies already
Hey! I was thinking about 3 dancers of la scala theatre: maria celeste losa (argentinian), agnese di clemente and caterina bianchi. Those are 3 young dancers what are your opinion about them? And also Martina arduino and nicoletta manni (young and already principals but not etoiles...)
Briah Victory check the website of the Prix de Lausanne, it is one of the variations allowed for this year and there is a file of the music on their website! :)