VENETIAN CARNAVAL pas de deux - Obraztsova & Lopatin / Венецианский карнавал из балета «Сатанилла» 

Very well dancedd with nothing new. Just well done and boring.

@@dimitriganzelevitch9296 boring ? “ nothing new “? What are you looking for a comedy ?

There are 2 major problems with this performance - 1. the tacky 8-member corps de ballet is a total distraction from the principal dancers, and to make matters worse, the choreography for the corps is awful....for instance, why are the men pretending to play their prop mandolins to a violin solo? 2. the tempo in this performance is a perfect example of the Russian's very bad habit of performing to musically incorrect, abysmally slow tempo, a habit that unfortunately has spread to the rest of the world. Interestingly, Petipa's choreography for the famous variation for the ballerina @ 5:54 has survived virtually unchanged ever since he created this pas de deux for the Italian ballerina Amalia Ferraris in 1857. Although modern-day ballerinas perform this variation with the choreography intact, they nevertheless significantly slow the music down by over a fourth. I encourage everyone to watch the adagio and female variation with the video speed taken up to 1.25x to see the choreography and hear the music as they are supposed to be performed. The entrée, male variation and coda are also supposed to be performed at a quicker pace, but 1.25x speed is a little to fast!

​@@mrlopez-pz7puПочитала все ваши другие отзывы. Для вас в русском балете плохо всё. Идите вы мимо к своим любимым западным танцовщикам, больше похожим на гимнастов, зато быстрых. О женщинах вообще не пишу, чтобы не обижать, там женщинами и не пахнет. Но нет, вы сюда лезете, видимо негде больше яд выпускать.

Скорее всего, она вскоре после родов. У неё двойня. Потом всё стало хорошо.

Watched it. Evgenia appeared steadier on pointe. There looked like a couple of dicey lifts by Lopatin. The tempo of music of the other seemed slightly slower. Of course, I am neither a dancer nor an expert on dance. 😉