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Nina Kaptsova in The Nutcracker.
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I drove myself up a wall yesterday testing out some combos and your post on Italian fouettés ended helping me up a bit with some of the odd moments where you go “oop i don’t feel that you know how to fully go through the choices made” to yourself 😅 It did get me thinking, there is a fairly common variation where you do a singular and I can’t remember it for the life of me for some reason
Glad my post helped you out, italian fouettes are tricky. At the moment, the only variation I can think of with a single Italian fouette is the Bolshoi's Sugar Plum/Princess Masha?
Please remind me as I'm sure I've forgotten something super obvious.
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Just felt like revisiting this iconic performance with Christmas around the corner. Nina Kapstova is THE Sugar Plum Fairy.
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hi! I often see dancers being described as soubrettes, and I think I know what that means just based on the names of dancers being described as soubrettes (correct me if I'm wrong, but short and charismatic and maybe couquettish?) but what are the alternative types for those who don't fall into the soubrette category? is there a whole lexicon of names for performer types? I would love to know if there are existing ballet vocabulary words for descriptions like "leggy adagio types" or whatever because that just sounds silly
To be honest, I don’t know if there are other labels. I’ve only read about soubrette! Given that most dancers are in the long-limbed category, I think Russia (in particular) has singled out soubrette dancers who tend to be more petite, fast jumpers and turners. Think of Amour in Don Quixote. (Obratzsova is my fave here.)
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Deep Dive: Maria Koshkaryova’s Debut as Marie
December 2023 — Maria Koshkaryova debuted as Marie in Bolshoi Theatre's The Nutcracker, as a first year member of the company. In what is arguably the hardest interpretation of the Sugarplum Fairy Variation, Masha can let out a sigh of big relief as she had a strong, technical performance.
Some of the clips from Masha's interpretation will be analyzed side-by-side Nina Kaptsova's. Growing up watching the Ovation special (US television special where all Nutcracker versions are compared every December), I grew familiar of Nina Kaptsova's interpretation, so we will be using her as reference.
I, firstly, want to say that Masha did a wonderful job in her debut. This is, in my opinion, her strongest debut of the season. There are very minor corrections in this deep dive. In my comparison to Nina, I think she just needed more confidence and perhaps this is something that only comes with time. With her abilities though, that kind of "head held high" presence could make a noticeable impact on her performances.
Props to Masha for these sections of the variation. These are movements that are seemingly simple but the bourrée moving back was very finely done, and she had a beautiful port de bras where she also engaged her whole torso into the movement. The same thing with the arabesque to the bourrée, she does a beautiful twist with her torso. To me, this is ballet! I don't know how to explain it, it's the parts that look and feel sublime.
Completing these series of turns is a feat in itself. I believe this is an improvement since her Gamzatti. She looks more self-assured in these turns and you can tell that her shoulders are no longer going up during the turns. My favorite part here is the extra cambré after the last Italian fouetté.
In a variation like this, I think there's more than enough time for embellishments. Especially, with the music being slow, there was time to really relish this arabesque. As we can see with Nina Kaptsova's side where she stays in arabesque slightly longer. While Masha does linger a bit, I think an ever so slightly higher arabesque could have prolonged her balance en pointe here.
However, I actually prefer the choice of a mini cambré instead of a straight torso, so kudos to Masha for this choice.
The strong turner that she is, Masha elevates the pirouette in the last diagonal by finishing on only one standing leg instead of the conventional fourth position. Again, you can see her self-assurance here and I believe turns are her forte so this was a perfect variation for her.
After a very impressive series of pique manege turns around the Bolshoi stage, she finishes in a clean and stable tendu devant. No preference here for the ending, I liked these endings equally but what about you?
Overall, this performance excites me and this was surely a boost to Masha. This is the kind of performance everyone expects from her and what an absolute gift this was! Congratulations to Masha on this debut!
Credits to Maria Koshkaryova who posted her variation via Instagram.
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I am working on Levi birthday and on my winter solstice project the "celebration" but in the meantime here some Petra as Kitri from the ballet Don Quixote, act 3 variation.
For the variation : here it's the long version. A very very good real life representation of it would be Iana Salenko, from the Staasballet of Berlin, here a link : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUuT9pipZ_I There are several videos of several performances of her in that variation. it's just my personal fav here.
For the other version of that variation if anyone is interested, Olga Smirnova is good, Nina Kaptsova too.
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NINA KAPTSOVA & IVAN VASILIEV - "Spartacus" (Music by Aram Khachaturyan) https://youtu.be/89hzJnLAAfk?si=wvpgvl3hlcjJQjsE
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Ballerina Nina Kaptsova
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The Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairies
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Nina Kaptsova and Ruslan Skvortsov in The Golden Age.
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Which famous dancers do you consider to be short, average, or tall?
Short (under 5’6): Skylar Brandt, Misty Copeland, Evgenia Obratsova, Nina Kaptsova, Alina Cojocaru, Natalia Makarova, Ektaterina Krysanova, Tiler Peck, Maria Kochetkova, Iana Salenko, Osipova
Average (not too small or tall): Maria Alexandrova, Nela, Olesya Novikova, Diana Vishneva, Polina Semionova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Maria Khoreva
Tall (over 5’7): Zakharova, Ekaterina Shipulina, Lopatkina, Olga Smirnova, Alina Somova, Isabella Boylston
5'6" (167cm) is the average height, particularly in Europe. It's also quite common here for companies to post a minimum requirement of 165cm for women- certainly not always followed though. I think the bar for being a 'short' dancer needs to be dancers under that minimum.
Short (under 5’4 / 165): Skylar Brandt, Misty Copeland, Evgenia Obratsova, Alina Cojocaru, Natalia Makarova, Tiler Peck, Maria Kochetkova, Iana Salenko, Natalia Osipova
Average (5'5-6"/ 167) Maria Alexandrova, Marianela Nunez, Diana Vishneva, Ekaterina Krysanova, Nina Kaptsova
Tall (5’7+ / 170+): Viktoria Tereshkina (I think she's just 170, looking at pictures with her and Vishenva) Svetlana Zakharova, Ekaterina Shipulina, Ulyana Lopatkina, Olga Smirnova, Alina Somova, Olesya Novikova, Isabella Boylston, Polina Semionova (definitely over 170), Maria Khoreva (also right about 170)
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Nina Kaptsova and Igor Kromushin in Onegin, Bolshoi Ballet, June 2017. © Damir Yusupov.
Nina Kaptsova performed the role in Onegin that evening and poured every emotion into the final spine-tingling moments of the ballet. In the 3rd act, many years after the first childhood scenes, Tatiana has become a gracious and loving wife to her caring, protective husband, Prince Gremin, nicely performed by Igor Kromushin. Dressed in a gorgeous red ballgown, their gentle duet of plunging arabesques and swirling turns showed her happiness and satisfaction with the aristocratic life she is now leading. Everything for her is serene and fulfilling.
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I hate watching certain versions of the Golden Idol variation from La Bayadere, because there’s kids playing child servants in blackface that dance with him. Especially the Russian/Eastern European versions. I get it, there is very few black people on that side of the world, but they’ve got to stop with it. I doubt they will though. Makarova’s version just has the idol himself, which I enjoyed and it’s the version that Royals, ABT, and Het Nationaale do, which are located in diverse areas, so she made a good decision. Malakhov too, it starts off with the curtain opening and then the idol dances. Nureyev’s version (done and originated by Paris Opera) has the kids but POB got rid of the makeup in 2016.
Same with Lacotte’s La Fille du Pharoan, the poor dancer playing Ramzeya has to be in bronzed makeup dancing with black faced kids! I feel so bad for Nina Kaptsova performing as Ramzeya in brown paint in that filmed version like 10+ years ago. Glad that Mariinsky just had Ramzeya dance by herself in no bad makeup in act 2.
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It’s indefensible. But you’re right, the Russian companies keep doing it, and don’t seem willing to change anytime soon.
I’ve read people defending it as “authenticity” on the forums, so that indicates their mindset.
One can hope they will evolve, but…..
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Dmitry Dorokhov, Igor Tsvirko, and Nina Kaptsova - Bolshoi Ballet
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Romeo and Juliet, Ballet by Prokoviev, Bolshoi Theatre, Nina Kaptsova and Artem Ovcharenko, 2010
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