#ballet text post
Women, Solo
I Prize: not awardedII Prize: Malika Yelchibaeva (Kazakhstan)
II Prize: Anastasia Smirnova (Russia)
III Prize: Yujin Kim (Republic of Korea)
III Prize: Ekaterina Varlamova (Russia)
Women, Duet
I Prize: Maria Iliushkina (Russia)II Prize: Elena Svinko (Russia)
II Prize: Amanda Gomez (Brazil)
III Prize: Camilla Ismagilova (Russia)
III Prize: Liriy Wakabayashi (Japan)
Men, Solo
I Prize: Dmitry Smilevsky (Russia)II Prize: Dmitry Vyskubenko (Russia)
III Prize: Maxim Izmestyev (Russia)
Men, Duet
I Prize: Wagner De Carvalho (Brazil)II Prize: Subedei Dangyt (Russia)
III Prize: Nikita Korneyev (Russia)
III Prize: Kubanych Shamakeev (Kyrgyzstan)
I’m so happy for Maria and Dmitry, first prize and gold medal is so amazing! I’m kind of surprised that Anastasia Smirnova didn’t get first prize, but she was still beautiful. I thought Nikita should have gotten second prize instead of third, but oh well. I’m also pissed that Shiori Fukuda and Oleg Karatsev didn’t get any sort of medal, diploma, or certificate. I thought they were so good!!!
I have seen a lot of ballets and dance performances and the one piece I would watch over and over would be Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. While I love the big classical ballets, Bourne’s SL has the potential to be completely different every single time. Each of the dancers can make the roles their own, interpret them completely uniquely to them, and the connections between the Swan and the Prince will be individualized and original to those dancers. Personalities and emotions and interpretations can show through classical roles, yes. But nothing like this Swan Lake. I’ve found 3 recordings of it and each of the three casts are COMPLETELY different. It’s as though the artists aren’t trying to be the next Scott Ambler and Adam Cooper, they are being authentically themselves in the role. I just love it so much!!
Ugh Kovaleva and Gerashchenko are principals now…gross.
Maturity is learning that Myrtha did nothing wrong, Albrecht is the villain, and Hans is a giant fuckboy who doesn’t actually care about Giselle, just the idea of her.
