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[Helene]

Please list up to three dancers who you think are the greatest Sugar Plum Fairy and/or Nutcracker Prince among current dancers.

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[Helene]

Melody Mennite as Sugar Plum Fairy.

[Natalia]

Sugar Plum (which includes Masha/Clara character in Russia):

Evgenia Obraztsova

Nina Kaptsova

Alina Cojocaru


Prince:

Hallberg

Ovcharenko

Schklyarov

[Mashinka]

S/P:  Elena Glurjidze. Katya Osmolkina, Myriam Ould-Braham

Prince:  Nikolai Tsiskaridze

[alexaa1a]

Ballerina
Oksana Marchuk by a lot
Yulia Stepanova
Alina Somova

Prince
Viktor Lebedev
Artyom Ovcharenko
Leonid Sarafanov

[DanceActress]

Sugar Plum: Alina Cojocaru, Myriam Ould-Braham
Prince: David Hallberg

[cubanmiamiboy]

Allow me to ask a couple of questions:

Dancers whom we ought to have seen very recently live in the role or others whom we have seen in the past in the role and haven't perform it either in a while or not anymore and are still roster members...?

Only live performances or video also...?

In any case, if going for live performances, then..

Fee Dragee: Lorna Feijoo, Alihaydee Carreno, Jeanette Delgado

Prince Coqueluche:  Osmay Molina,  Rolando Sarabia, Renato Panteado

[Helene]

cubanmiamiboy, on 16 January 2013 - 07:08 AM, said:

Allow me to ask a couple of questions:

Dancers whom we ought to have seen very recently live in the role or others whom we have seen in the past in the role and haven't perform it either in a while or not anymore and are still roster members...?

Only live performances or video also...?

The request was, "We want to hear from you who you think are some of the most exciting dancers today performing the iconic roles of the megahits of Classical Ballet. "

I think that means dancers who are performing the role now.

I don't see any distinction being made between live or recorded, including YouTube, performances.

[vipa]

Sugar Plum:  Alina Cojocaru, Tiler Peck

[nysusan]

Sugar Plum: Maria Kowroski, Sarah Mearns, Tiler Peck

[canbelto]

SPF: Tiler Peck, Ashley Bouder, Sara Mearns