Daniil

Dancers in the finals (3rd round):

Juniors

Telmo Higino Gomes Moreira, Portugal

Whitney Jensen, USA

Xiao Dong Ma, China

Osiel Vladimir Gouneu Martinez, Cuba

Youn Sik Kim, Korea

Fumi kaneko, Japan

Dmitrij Zagrebin, Russia

Eun Won Lee, Korea

Seniors

Doszhan Tabyldy, Kazakhstan

Yi Huang, China

Sang Eun Lee, Korea

Jeon Il Yoon, Korea

Yudai Fukuoka, Japan

Christina Terentiev, Moldova

Seo Hye Han, Korea

Yu Zheng, China

Rodrigo Almarales Gonzales, Cuba

Jialing Shi, China

Junlong Huang, China

Na Eun Kim, Korea

The finals are taking place on July 26 and 27. Good luck to everyone.

Oh, now I remeber seeing coincidentally Roberto Bolle in a German magazin doing an ad for another watch than Rolex (was it Festina)?

Hmm, ballet dancers seem to be good watch models

I've seen Sylvie Guillem and and Mr. Bejard doing an ad for Rolex. (I'm not completely sure about it)

Hello!

Does anybody know anything about the annual competition taking place in Paris? When does it take place? Any other information?

in advance

Thank you so much for the reports and fast information !

Congratulation to everybody taking part in this competition and especially to the winners Ivan Vasiliev and Zherlin Ndudi

My dream is dancing the main person of Béjarts Bolero!

(The one dancing on the podest/table)

Just gorgeous!

Maybe I missed something, but it seems somehow strange, that Romoli is not listed as an etoile on the website of POB. I'm not sure, but I can remember that almost immediatly after changes of the "roster" they appeared on the website.

Here is the site:

Dancers of the POB

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I couldn't agree more except that I think Nureyev was and is great. 

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Well, I think Nureyev was an unique person and character! Personally for me it is obvious, that Nureyev was the most important male dancer in the 20th century! I have read his biography and watched everything I could get. Maybe I didn't point out right what I wanted to say. Of course Nureyev was on stage "Like an animal" I didn't see him live, but I can imagine. He will be all my life in my mind as an idol. Technically he was also very far for his time (especially his landings and balance). But nowadays these things are mostly requirements for being a porfessional dancer. These things Nureyev was the first to master them and that made him a pioneer.

"Well, Danill, you have a bit of growing up to do When I saw my first ballet I didn't know an arabesque from a glissade"

Sorry atm, but I didn't understand your post. Why do I have to grow up? I come from ballet family, so I lifed my whole life with ballet. And you can be sure, that I know what an arabesque is

About the overacting problem: I think it was just normal to act to such a degree in old times.

I find overacting not so good, since then all your role becomes not believable for the audience (I've seen dancer cry onstange and that was too much for me). As a viewer you become suspicious, when something is overdone.

Maybe it's just me :rolleyes: ...

Well, sorry if I disagree with most of you, BUT

you seem all to be influenced and not objective, as I think.

"Good Old Days..." seem to be your motto.

Everything in our world is improving and so is ballet! When I watch Fonteyn, Vladimirov, or even Nureyev I think "Oh my god...". [Edit] To clarify things: technically they can not be compared to the new generations of dancers. But for their time they were pioneers and made things onstange no one else could do.

Also I find some of their acting too much. I personally think that the acting in the ballet and interpretation has to be in the middle. Too much is bad and too less is also bad. To find the middle is the most different thing a dancer can achieve.

About the technique. I can not understand why everybody laments upon good technique and bad acting. Of course there are cases where this is a fact.

Good technique does not mean subsequentaly bad acting and interpretation!!!

I think the Interpretation in the old Videos is just so visible, because there is nothing else to see! (Ok I exaggerate )

And now, you can tore me in pieces

Thank's alot for your rewiews.

About the endless lift of Johan Kobborg. I've heard from a friend, who was there, that Alina Cojocaru shrugged, when he didn't let her down. Is it true ?

Thanks a lot ! I will surely take a look at some dvds, which are not available here in europe

Well, I googled a bit and found this little text from http://www.danceinfo.fi/...

(sadly on finnish)

Mitalisteista mainittakoon vuoden 2004 Varnan juniorisarjan voittaja Saksan Daniil Simkin sekä seniorisarjan voittaja Armenian Arman Krigorian. Muita mitalisteja Varnasta ovat juniorisarjassa kilpaileva Kiinan Cao Shuci ja seniorisarjassa kilpailevat Kazakstanin Dastan Chinybayev sekä Ukrainan Yana Salenko.

USA:n edustajien joukossa ovat Jacksonin vuoden 2002 kilpailussa palkittu Melissa Hough ja New Yorkin vuoden 2003 pronssimitalisti Caitlin Valentine.

Well, to sum it up:

Arman Krigorian - Armenia, 1st Prize Senior Varna 2004

Cao Shuci - China, 3rd Prize Junior Varna

Dastan Chinybayev - Khazakhstan, 3rd Prize Senior Varna 2004

Yana Salenko - Ukraina, 3rd Prize Senior Varna 2004

Melissa Hough - USA Jackson 2002 ?

Caitlin Valentine

and of course me,

Daniil Simkin - Germany, 1st Preize Junior Varna 2004

Well, as you can think I am looking forward to it

... Contemporary dance companies are cheaper to run -- they're smaller, you don't need to have an academy training people for ten years, you don't have pointe shoes, in many cases you don't have to have an orchestra. ...

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Sorry, but in this case I can't agree with you. Indeed Contemporary comapnies are cheaper to run, and are smaller, but my opinion is that 99% of all modern pieces need to have a classical ballet education.

E.g. Kylian, Forsythe, Duato...

The bad thing about modern ballet is that al lot of "non professionals" or "demagogues" make it hard to the good ones to get the money and attentions they deserve...

In modern ballet there are just no specific rules as in the classical ballet.

In general I think it is just easier to go and watch a modern ballet than a classical one, if you're not a vivid ballet goer.

Of course now we could argue that most men don't like all these "hidden" things in art like metaphors, hidden messages, small different things which change a message completely.

Probably most men like to get a message straight, without any complication. (Thats why most of them like blockbusters )

This is of course a cliché, but maybe there are some true things about it...

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When I was Danill's age I sure would have loved to be in an art class with 25 girls and no other guys! smile.gif

Well, I am :rolleyes:

Well, in the moment I'm making my Abitur in Germany (it's like a high school degree). The "main" courses of my abitur are English and Art.

And what do you think? I'm the only only boy in the main Art course between 25 girls...

At least for my generation and area (17) it tells you everything...

Of course the Sleeping Beauty in the original soviet version!!! Look at how many variations she has just in the first act...

You couldn't imagine, how often russian names are not right spelled. Not that there is one letter, as a l, too much or too less, there is the whole name wrong.

Hey!

Thank you all a lot for your comments and compliments. It lets me work a bit easier!

Daniil, who were and are your teachers?

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My teacher is and was my one and only MUM

(For more information read the biography site on my homepage)

Varna?

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Yep, I'll never forget this stage

Since everybody liked it so much, I've made some more Videos:

Corsair low quality (2 MB)

Corsair high quality (4 MB)

Harlequinade high quality (~5MB)

Have fun with the videos (and let us know what you think about them )

ps. sorry for double posting in the different forums.

Hi Daniil - no it's not off topic at all!  I did search some DVD vendors' websites (Amazon UK & France included) but have been unable to get even a hint of a possible release date..... let's hope they'll release it before long.  As for a hunting ground for DVD in Japan - well it really depends on where you are heading to.  All big towns have numerous retail shops which sell DVDs in general, but even in a ballet-crazed country as Japan, not many shops stock ballet DVDs aplenty, I guess.  If you're really interested, I'd do some research and let you know where to look out for.

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Well, I will be around Nagoya and Aichi since there will be hold the competition.

And best of luck in the competition!

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...Commercial DVD itself from TDK will be released later this month (on the 23rd) in the country.  What about on French television's front - and do you know when commercial DVD becomes available in Europe?

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Sorry, if this is slightly off topic, but:

Will the DVD be released in Europe before summer? I will be in Japan in summer for a competition and would like maybe to buy such a dvd, if it won't be released here in europe. Are they selled in a normal DVD shop?

Well, only looking at the technique in the way of looking at the "amount" of doing somebody technical things I can say:

Tetsuya Kumakawa

If your looking for the best technique AND form (this means a goodlooking style) then I can offer you:

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Finally, I would like to address Daniil's comment about the use of the word "push." By "push," I don't mean forcing dancers to do things they don't want to do, and indeed very young stars are usually more than happy to take on many leading roles on in a short amount of time, it's only human. What I think the word push means in this context, and the way it was being used in the Kirov forum as well as other forums where this comes up, is nudging young dancers towards the outer limits of their experience--both in terms of actual technique and especially in terms of what Ari called "emotional, moral, and artistic" experience and skills.

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Oh, this was a misunderstanding

What I wanted to add is, that a dancer should not only be prepared for the role especcialy, but be prepared to dance such a thing on stage. A dancer should have danced a variety of roles which come before a major role. E.g. a male dancer should dance Pas De Deuses like the Blue Bird in Sleeping Beauty, Paysant PDD from Giselle, Pas De Trois from Swanlake etc.. These things are even more difficult to dance on condition than the major PDD (really), so after dancing such things the dancers will be ready to dance a major role.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I've read his play "A Death of a Salesman" just some months ago.

Rest In Peace

Are young dancers being fully prepared for their roles or just given a video and a week to learn the steps?

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At the Kirov the young dancers are not provided by a video and a do-it-yourself thinking. I can say for sure that they (if they're given the opportunity) are well prepared by their personal coach, who also has a big responsibility for this role and his dancer.