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Part 3 0f 6 2003 Bolshoi Ballet School Documentary Student Osipova
This 6 part documentary on the Moscow Choreographic Academy , the actual name of the Bolshoi Ballet school , looks at the 2002/2003 ballet school year. There are four different students that this film focuses on. The main student is Natalia Osipova , who was 16 years old in 2002 and after finishing her seventh, and next to last year in the school, was 17 years old. After briefly showing Osipova in a school performance, they show the tryouts of the applicants for the first year of the school. Then it skips to the first day of the school year in September and progresses during the year. Osipova, is shown in class, in rehearsal and in performance at the graduation exams. She is shown dancing the Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty. She is also seen winning the grand prize at the Luxembourg ballet competition. The youngest student shown is the first year boy, Pasha Kozlov . It is interesting that when his parents come to Moscow to see their son in his graduation exams, his father mentions that he has never been in Moscow before. If Pasha is still at the school, he would have just finished his 6th year, with two years left. The final students are very unique in terms of what has happened to their careers. They are Kirill Safin and his younger brother, Igor Safin. Kirill graduated in 2006 and Igor 2007. They took a very unusual route in their ballet careers from the Moscow Choreographic school, ending up at the Mariinsky Theater. Igor has finished his first year with the Mariinsky (I like to call it Kirov ) and Kirill finished his second year. Both are in the corps de ballet, but Kirill has danced many solo roles. Kirill has been rehearsing Solor , so there is a possibility that he might have his first principal role in the upcoming year in Bayadere . His coach, the former Kirov star, Sergei Vikhulov , expects a promising career for Kirill. The director of the Bolshoi school is Marina Leonova, who is shown often in this documentary. I am not certain, but one of the parts in these videos ends and the next video starts with a boys class that Leonova enters. I think the teacher is the former Bolshoi ballet star, Yuri Vasyuchenko .
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April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
but you could say …
but you could say the same for dance, too.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i wish i could …
i wish i could understand what they are saying.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i think that’s true …
i think that’s true for all the arts. dancing, music, you name it. there’s always somewhere to improve or expand. which is part of what makes dance so interesting, we constantly strive to make ourselves better.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I don’t know if …
I don’t know if it’s exactly what you’re saying, but if you said we don’t have personalities i would have to disagree. you’re right about the ego bit, for the most part… but there are some dancers who think very highly of themselves. again, please excuse me if i completely misunderstood what you said
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
It is german
It is german
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
ur competin with …
ur competin with urself… its not the same… u always wanna go higher… there is never a limit.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Unfortunately it’s …
Unfortunately it’s the same with anything. I sing opera. There will always be someone who can reach a note I can’y because of physical limitations..or someone with a more powerful voice, but we always need to interpret our art as best as we can as professionals and not focus so much on the competition. If you focus on the competition, you lose the interpretation of the story and you lose the beauty. It becomes too rigid.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
ballet is endless.. …
ballet is endless… there is ALWAYS someone better in some aspect. only a tru dancer would understand.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
its not like that …
its not like that at all… u DONT understand… we hav no ego… we work our es off… we dont think of mistakes we think of victory.. but we kno we will never b perfect. so it bothers us… we always want 2 do more but we cant…
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Yeah, that’s the …
Yeah, that’s the thing though. The stress is from insecurity that WE might make a mistake or whatever…so essentially you’re only thinking of your potential mistakes and you you you and not the performace and the technique. It was hard for me to understand because I felt that way too…like I have no ego because I’m insecure but the fact that I was insecure was evidence of ego. hehe
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
its MUCH different …
its MUCH different in ballet… SO much different…. we dont hav egos at all… dancers are insecure personally… regardless of wut a teacher says… but then a teacher adds 2 the stress.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
But she’s not a …
But she’s not a nazi or anything. When the lesson is over she’s lovely and very sweet.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Haha….it’s true. …
Haha….it’s true. But it’s necessary to break a student down in order to remove their ego! I have a Russian voice teacher. She tells me to get away from myself when I sing…..because I don’t matter. And it’s true!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i know…they arent …
i know…they arent in real life lol… russians are amazing teachers but they are good at breakin u down.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Samee!! Those old …
Even more than the ones nowadays.
Samee!! Those old shoes looked super painful
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
These are some of …
These are some of the cheeriest russians I’ve seen.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
hahaha! french!
… 
its german 
srry if that sounded rude its cuz it was funny to me :S
hahaha! french!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
If you pause at …
If you pause at exactly 7:03, its amazing to look at how far the ballet body and the ballet shoe have really come. I liked this part, looking at all the old pictures.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
sorry dont want to …
sorry dont want to sound bad but do these boy wear a dancebelt and support cup
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
it’s in german not …
it’s in german not in french
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
What is that tune …
What is that tune at the very start?
Thanks
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
yes i think it is …
yes i think it is german!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Is that german?
Is that german?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
ooh, I wish there …
can you add the subtitle please, ketinoa? I’m sure it would help a lot of people too..
ooh, I wish there was an english subtitle.. this documentary is so good but unfortunately I can’t speak french.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Tell from which …
Tell from which part you want translation. I can translate it if you want…