Part 4 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 .
Duration : 0:10:19
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
the floor is dusty …
the floor is dusty and dirty. water makes it less slippery and more safe to dance on since it’s unpolished hard wood.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
What are those …
What are those machines at 3:30 or so?
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Ohhh I want one of …
Ohhh I want one of thos muscle stimulating machines!!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
thanks
thanks
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
So that the floor …
So that the floor is less slippery.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
why do they wetthe …
why do they wetthe floor?
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
It gets easier ^^
It gets easier ^^
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I am learning …
I am learning german and it is very difficult…
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
estimulate*
estimulate*
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
those machines …
those machines extimules the muscles
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
what are all those …
what are all those vibrating machines????
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
you can, but you …
you can, but you can also wear contacts.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
i know english.
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i know english.
haha
ive watched all of these videoes though!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
oh no…they check …
oh no…they check eye test!!!! i wear (sometimes) glasses, if i want to be in a company and my eyes are not great i cant be on it?
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lol I speak only …
lol I speak only english but am learning russian so yeah I agree…..should have left it in russian then i could pick out SOME things….
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haha all tests for …
haha all tests for your health is the same…the eye test..blood pressure…heartbeat lol
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I’m Russian and I’m …
I’m Russian and I’m learning German.I can understand a lot of the German, but I would have preferred if they’d just left the Russian
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I agree Tikvah I’m …
I agree Tikvah I’m learning German so i understand parts but sometimes you don’t understand everything. subtitles in German would help more. it’s amazing what you understand by reading rather then listning at times when you learn a language. But it helps my German. : )
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Ugh, I wish they …
Ugh, I wish they had just put german subtitles instead of voicing over the Russian. Then I could have understood!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
this is cool! but.. …
this is cool! but… english please? im not fluent in german but i know some and its still hard to piece together what theyre saying! is there one with english subtitles
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me 2
me 2
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
ok thanks so much …
ok thanks so much for that knowledge! learnt so much heh
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
According to a …
According to a recent research, those machines help the bones to be stronger (when you work out your muscles they pull on your bones and then the bones get stronger and I think the mechanism of those machines are like that)
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Based on my own …
Based on my own experiences, the machine helps to relieve the cramps or stiffness of the muscles before or after the class. When I sweat a lot I get a muscle cramp(not exactly cramps but the muscles get tenser…) more easily(It might be because I lost lots of electrolytes, such as potassium) so I hop on the machine and let it vibrates my muscles and it actually feels good.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
what are those …
what are those machines for? please reply me im really curious! (: