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fadedday · 2 months

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Photography by Alena Lebedeva

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miss-mollys-ballet-blog · 3 years

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Ballet Asks

“What are your thoughts on Daria Ionova and Maria Bulanova, do you think they should be promoted anytime soon or they are in fair positions considering their skills? Another thing, do you know why Olesya Novikova didn't become a principal yet? I find her so principal material”

I like Ionova, she’s beautiful in more graceful and airy roles like Chopiniana and I think she’d make a beauty Sylph in La Sylphide. Would I want to watch her in a main role in a classical ballet though? No, probably not, but I think she has the potential to be a decent Giselle. I think coryphee is the right place for her. Bulanova is more interesting to me. She has the stage presence and is in good in solo variations, but for some reason struggles in partnering. I was looking forward to her debut as Gamzatti, but thanks to Covid that didn’t happen. I also think second soloist is a good rank for her. In terms of Novikova, no one can say for sure why she was never promoted, but I think it comes down to the fact that she had 3 kids pretty closely together which is a lot for dancers. I also think politics were involved, especially when Sarafanov left the Mariinsky that did not help her case. But all of this is speculation. I personally am not a fan of Novikova and don’t mind she was never promoted, but I know I am in the minority on that.

“What are your thoughts on Aran Bell? Just saw him rehearsing Swan Lake with Skylar Brandt on her Instagram.”

I like him I guess, I’ve seen him in Swan Lake twice and he wasn’t anything offensive but nothing super memorable either. I wouldn’t be mad if he was cast in anything I saw, but I wouldn’t call him a personal favorite of mine either. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about him.

“Do you know anything about Alena Lebedeva (@alionas_kate on ig)? I know she studied at Vaganova but left before concluding (don't know the reason why) and now she is a pro ballerina. Any thoughts about her?”

I don’t really pay attention to students anymore so I had never heard of her. I just went through her Instagram and think the workout/technique videos she’s doing are good and I actually plan on doing some of them for the feet, ankles, and balancing. Other than that I don’t have anything to say lol.

“I’d love to read a more detailed opinion on Artem Ovcharenko!!! One always reads such conflicting views on him, some believe he used to be outstanding but has now regressed, others consider him mediocre. What do you think?”

So I never really paid attention to his dancing before because he and Tikhomirova annoyed me so much on Instagram lol. Recently I started watching him again and I think I like him a lot, I still haven’t fully formed my opinion! I think he is a beautiful classical dancer and the best Prince Desire at the Bolshoi. He has the elegance and physical beauty that Semyon Chudin has, but he also has personality and stage presence that Chudin lacks sometimes. I really like his Prince Kurbsky in Ivan the Terrible, Armand in La Dame Aux Camelias, and Lensky in Onegin. I would say he is charming onstage!

Also, how can you not love him and Nina Kaptsova together, especially in this pas de deux from Taming of the Shrew: https://youtu.be/RbtI16iHPz4?t=354

#ballet ask #daria ionova #maria bulanova #mariinsky ballet #aran bell #american ballet theatre #alena lebedeva #artem ovcharenko #bolshoi ballet #ballet #ballerina

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lovelyballetandmore · 4 years

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Alena Lebedeva

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valleydoll · 4 years

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So I told myself I was sticking to mini or 1/6 scale bjd’s going forward. Then I saw a picture of a D.I.M. Larina. And ended up with two🙂 One of these lovelies has the stock faceup (with some additional eyelashes and a little added liner), while the other has a custom faceup by Alena Lebedeva. The stock doll is on the D.I.M. body, while the custom doll is on a Doll Leaves body. Both are nice, but I think I like how delicate the Doll Leaves body looks, and the color match is spot on.

#bjdcollector #bjd custom #bjd #bjd fashion #custom ball jointed dolls #ball jointed doll #ball jointed dolls

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thedollcafe · 5 years

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Kelly Holidays by Alena Lebedeva

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melmothblog · 6 years

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Ask Responses: Vaganova

Do you know what happened to Svetlana Savilieva? Per her instagram photos it looks like she had surgery of some sort (on her knee?).

She had extra bones (Os Trigonum) removed from her ankle. Apparently, it’s a pretty common problem with dancers. Although, she did mention that the condition hadn’t actually been confirmed. So it looks like the operation may have been a bit of a gamble... Sveta seems in good spirits though, and has documented the whole thing in insta stories. I hope she makes a quick recovery, but I don’t think we’ll see her in “Nutcracker” this year. Which is disappointing.

You said in a recent post that only 5-10% of students who start in grade 1 complete their studies and that Katerina Kuzmicheva was especially impressive as she has. Is that different than any other student (Say, one of the girls showcased in the Little Swans documentary or Khoreva or Ionova) finishing their schooling or am I missing something and Kuzmicheva is extra special?

Sorry, I should have worded it better / clearer. What I was trying to say is that any student who makes it through all eight years at Vaganova deserves respect and admiration, because it is an incredibly hard training program to survive.

1st of all, thank you for the Vishneva interview translation! 2nd, regarding your comment about Katya Kuzmicheva, I find it interesting that, along w/ her, actually most of her class has made it from first to grad year: Sevenard, Bogdashkina, Uzanskaya, Frolova (who never left VBA), K. Spiridonova, Y. Spiridonova, Ustyuzhanina, Legacheva... this MUST be more than in previous years, no? Really of those graduating, only Khiteeva, Savelieva & foreign students joined after 1st yr. Seems remarkable!

You’re very welcome! Yes, you’re right, there are quite a few girls in Kuzmicheva’s year who made it through the entire Vaganova training program. I’m not sure how it compares to the class of 2018 though. The number varies from year to year, but it is generally pretty small.

Re the new paid option for students starting in 1st grade, it was anounced that selected candidates who passed the first and second part of the audition but not the third, would be eligible to pay. So I envisioned a class of paid students. But it appears that only a couple of first year students were accepted as paid students, and they are integrated into regular classes. Do you know if this is correct? Will there be a switch if these students perform better than the others in the annual exam?

As I am not affiliated with Vaganova Academy, I can’t give you the exact information about the paid program. If I had to venture an educated guess, I would say that the number of paid places would be strictly limited, meaning that there wouldn’t be enough paid students to make up an entire class. Also, it wouldn’t make sense to train the paying students separately or otherwise treat them differently. Logically, there should be a relatively small number of paying students who are integrated into the rest of the cohort.

What did Svetlana S said about her weight in her insta?

She detailed her experience of achieving rapid and extreme weight loss, what triggered it, how she did it, what effect it had on her body, and how she recovered. I have read similar accounts by Vaganova students and grads before, and they’re not pretty. I briefly considered translating some of them, as they highlight the dangers such choices pose, but then I realised that I will potentially be giving some vulnerable people step-by-step instructions on how to starve themselves. Tumblrs is already filled with pro-ana crap and I don’t want to contribute to it.

This summer I discovered that YouTube was a hot bed for ballet videos and thanks to the RT documentaries there I found myself watching many Vaganova graduation performances. Questions: Do graduates like Khoreva, etc—dancers with great primal potential—happen every year? And how many have corporate sponsors? Khoreva has Bloch & Nike—even young Olya Morgulets is a Merlet ambassador!

No, students of Khoreva’s potential are pretty rare. Obviously, Vaganova generally produces graduates of a very high caliber, but I’d say that ones like Masha come along once or twice in a generation. And that’s if we’re lucky.

None of the students have corporate sponsors, but some do develop working relationships with major brands (that’s a bit different from having a sponsor).

I had also been wondering about Alena Lebedeva. She still has the Instagram account alionas_kate but it isn’t clear if she is still a Vaganova student.

It looks like she may now be a student of the Rudolph Nureyev Ballet Academy in Ufa.

In the past ten years, who do you think the top 5 VBA grads have been?

Olga Smirnova (2011)

Renata Shakirova (2015)

Anastasia Lukina (2015)

Alena Kovaleva / Maria Ilyushkina (I couldn’t decide between them) (2016)

Maria Khoreva (2018)

That’s just my personal view.

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thedowntown500 · 6 years

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Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian Art at Chelsea Museum

April 14 – May 7, 2011

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Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian Art: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation examines the intersections of artistic and religious consciousness that explore spiritual expression in the Soviet Union and Russia. This exhibition confronts the historical collisions of the sacred and secular, the conflict of government censorship, and freedom of expression under the Communist regime. During the Soviet era, such works of religious subject matter were often banned from public display, and in some cases, they were even confiscated.

Images of Christian churches or objects of veneration, as in the works of Oscar Rabin, Dmitri Plavinsky, and Anatolii Slepyshev, were considered religious propaganda. Art that was supportive of religion in any way was unacceptable to Soviet authorities. Regardless, a number of Russian artists turned to religious themes as a protest to government restrictions, an escape from Russian day-to-day life, or a private expression of faith. While some artists embraced traditional imagery depicting Russian churches, religious icons, or images from the Old and New Testament, other artists, such as Leonid Borisov and Gennadii Zubkov, expressed their spiritual ideas in more abstract, geometric forms. By the mid-1990’s, after Russia had emerged on the international art scene, artists shifted their focus to new subjects and ideas like digital media, as is used in the work of Konstantin Khudyakov and Alena Anosova.

This selection of 50 works by 35 artists, spanning from the 1960’s to the present, illuminates the progression of various artistic and political movements in Russia. Featured artists from the 1960’s and 1970’s participated in significant, unofficial exhibitions that challenged the official, approved style of Socialist Realism. Artworks from the 1980’s to the present reflect the emergence of a free and democratic Russia, after the era of Perestroika. Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian Art offers the viewers a glimpse into artistic traditions of Russian artists who, despite oppression, fervently re-appropriated sacred imagery as a way of conveying rebellious expression.

The title for the exhibition alludes to Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art of 1911.

Featured Artists

Alena Anosova, Edward Bekkerman, Farid Bogdalov, Leonid Borisov, OlgaBulgakova, Oleg Bourov, Irene Caesar, Mihail Chemiakin, Maria Elkonina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Rimma Gerlovina, Dimitry Gerrman, Francisco Infante, OtariKandaurov, Anton S. Kandinsky, SanSan Kara, Konstantin Khudyakov,Mikhail Koulakov, Yefim Ladyzhensky, Valentina Lebedeva, TatianaLevitskaia, Sergei Maliutin, Komar and Melamid, Artem Mirolevich, IgorMolochevski, Ernst Neizvestny, Natalia Nesterova, Alexander Ney, ShimonOkshteyn, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Valeri Pianov, Dmitri Plavinsky, PetrPushkarev, Oscar Rabin, Eduard Shteinberg, Alexander Sitnikov, AnatoliiSlepyshev, Alexi Tyapushkin, Yakov Vinkovetsky, Alexander Zakharov and Gennadii Zubkov.