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[amiaow]

This is only a short video, but I found it on Youtube and thought other forum members may enjoy watching it too. It is Oksana Skorik and her partner Timur Askerov in Swan Lake rehearsal. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

[Angelique]

Very swan-like.  Thank you!

[cinnamonswirl]

Very promising! The distorted alignment (a la Somova) at 1:34 is disappointing though.

[Angelique]

cinnamonswirl, on 20 May 2011 - 05:37 AM, said:

Very promising! The distorted alignment (a la Somova) at 1:34 is disappointing though.

Just out of interest I took a second look at the frame @ 1:34  and thought it absolutely beautiful. Wing like working leg creates a metaphor for a bird ready to take to the skies. In this particular case  square hips would render the pose less dynamic,  even stale.

[cubanmiamiboy]

Saw her live once and couldn't believe that particular performance...(to the point of embarrasment, if IMO... )

[Helene]

I've moved the posts about the current aesthetics of the Mariinsky Ballet to the following thread:

http://balletalert.i...riinsky-ballet/

[amiaow]

More videos have been uploaded from this rehearsal session- there is a playlist at http://www.youtube.c...38E9BA29000596C

She really is so lovely to watch!

[Natalia]

Not at all impressed with Skorik, who massacred CHOPINIANA at the Kennedy Center last night, sorry to report. This is sad because I admired her in the documentary of her struggles at the Perm Academy of Ballet (ca-2006/07) and was hoping for much more. Not sure why she has become so brittle and lacking in poetic feeling or musicality (almost a face of anger throughout a Romantic poem of a ballet).

[cubanmiamiboy]

I told you so, Natasha..! What I saw was not an off night.  It was just an unprepared dancer thrown out to the stage way before her time...