Drew Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Here's Lepeshinskaya's earlier rendition of the part in question. As we can see, @ 1:06 she opens her variation with a sissone, pretty much a smaller scale version of "The Plisetskaya". Now, at the very moment where Plisetskaya does the first of the two, Lepeshinskaya dances a completely different series of steps-(@ 1:18). By chance found this photo of Lepeshinskaya when looking for something else from Soviet era--hard to tell from a still photo but at least a strong family resemblance to the jump being discussed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Lepeshinskaya_%28dancer%29#mediaviewer/File:Lepeshinskaya-Kitri.jpg (There is other quite wonderful video of her on youtube...not doing this jump, but very fun.) Link to comment
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