Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina,Saint Petersburg (1907)

Photography by Alfred Eberling (1872-1951)

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Anna Pavlova 1929

Savely Sorine (Russian, 1878-1953) • Anna Pavlova • 1924

Frozen Ukrainian Princess 🤍🩵💎❄️🌨️☃️

reading but in an effortlessly chic, model, 2007 backstage, russian babydoll way ˚୨୧₊♱

well, my last reblog was made for a reason)) Hah, here comes Natasha(🇷🇺), Russian ballerina🩰

⋆꙳•̩̩͙❅*̩̩͙‧͙ vibes for winter ‧͙*̩̩͙❆ ͙͛ ˚₊⋆

rewatched black swan last night 🖤 there really is no movie like it 🩰🦢

Russian ballerina Vera Fokina in costume from the ballet "Thunder bird", Hollywood (1929)

Tired

Khiteeva promoted to 2nd Soloist!

I'm so happy for Alexander Khiteeva. This is well-deserved as she has definitely been dancing soloist roles. I do hope she gets more leading parts…but I would also like to see her career develop a bit more methodically, dancing roles that best feature her talents rather than just throwing her out there to see what happens. Now, let's get Svetlana Savelieva more featured roles. Maybe she'll be a coryphee by the season's end? One can hope! But there are so many talented girls at Mariinsky who never get recognized. Who is someone you've been following who think deserves more roles, recognition? It's hard because I don't have much opportunity to see the corps on you tube… Now…they need to promote some men!

source: Mariinsky

"Petukhova - a beautiful dancer, but ballet was clearly much much more of a battle for her than her classmates." What do you mean? :( also, if you don't mind me asking, do you know what she has been doing? I really liked her, but from my perspective, she's not in the ballet world anymore?

All the girls I discussed are the cream of the crop in terms of ‘natural talent.’ They arguably wouldn’t have graduated VBA otherwise. That being said, Pethukova had fewer natural gifts in my eyes, most notably a shorter Achilles and a shallower plié, especially on a single leg. When I watch her, I see her fighting to put and keep her heels down, especially for jumps and consecutive releves. She could hide a lot her off-balance plies with her great upper body but maintaining a strong plie with good weight distribution was something that I definitely thought looked harder for her to do correctly compared to her classmates.

Now you might think, Ale that’s such nitpicking! And yes it is, but plie is the fundamental element of ballet, and it’s one of the few things that’s not optional for a professional career. You don’t need 180 turnout or legs behind your head, but you do need a good, strong, functional and comfortable plie to have any sort of sustainability in dance. I saw that it was harder for Petukhova to plié comfortably and that was my main reasoning for placing her last. It’s worth mentioning that the faculty also saw some issues in her technique, she was the only prominent student from that 2018 class not given an honours diploma.

But regardless after graduating VBA, She spent a season dancing in Talin, at Estonian National Ballet. She got some soloist roles, but eventually decided to return to Russia. She was dancing at the Rostov State Musical Theater in 2020 but now she is teaching at a school in SPB called “Palace Ballet.”

Svetlana Zakharova performing in the Trans-Siberian Art Festival