Alina Somova - Sugar Plum Fairy variation

[@mmwiz]

I have seen so many sugar plum fairies whose dance moves seem almost random and seem to have nothing to do with the nuances of the music. . This performance is an absolutely exquisite reflection of the music. Thank you for posting this wonderful video.

[@nathaliedasilva555]

Alina is so beautiful and makes this look effortless! The costumes and set are absolutely gorgeous too!🥰

[@johnmichaelkarma]

So very fluid and delicate. A rare example of how the Sugar Plum Fairy should be conjured. Fantastic! 😎

[@d.c.vandenberg2954]

This is BY FAR the best choreo for the sugar plum fairy I've seen so far. Finally someone who understands music and the power of it. The dancer is giving a stunning performance!

[@justinebarker7588]

This. So many variations over the last 5-10 years feel like they are battling the music. The Royal Ballet one makes me cringe

[@starfruitiger]

same, marinsky is the best one definitely

[@patraychi]

While this is not bad, but I think the one in link below is even better in the choreography, fits the music so perfectly! And the dancer is so great! kzbin.infoAYO1PWXF1Rs?si=tr9KP5pMbdI56JDY Now I hope to watch a full version of it...

[@alecsia96]

She is a fairy, an angel. How could she possibly be anything less than awesome in this role? So effortless, smooth and gorgeous! I love her!

[@azzurraantonelli5364]

She seems a real fairy, seems like she's floating! Unique

[@applebee39]

I'm a totally amateur at ballet but even I can tell I just witnessed something special. There's just something about the way she moves that is so ethereal and magical. Perfect for this position!

[@tamikoshahunter2755]

Longer limbs than average. It adds eccentricities to choreography.

[@ballettranslations1589]

Please everyone, don't write any rude comments. If you don't like Alina, just don't watch her videos, or maybe express your criticism in a polite way! ;) Any rude and/or dirty comments will be reported to KZbin.

[@c.borrell5192]

Freedom of expression

[@mariaalexopoulou2313]

+Chelsea One persons freedom ends where another persons freedom begins. Nobody forced you to like her just to express your criticism in a polite way.

[@c.borrell5192]

👍

[@flotteluft]

That's something I'm also often surprised about - why do people watch videos about things or persons they DON'T like? It's probably they vent their anger on somebody. No matter who.

[@the_hammerhead]

I work in construction, so I never ever watched ballet in my life. Then my daughter had a Nutcracker related school project and I watched it with her. I secretly fell in love with ballet immediately. This is the third Sugar Plum Fairy I watched and I must say that this Alina lady is the best so far. How can anyone say anything negative about that performance? Maybe a professional who can spot flaws, but luckily I am not because I would want to stay ignorant, to enjoy this graceful woman floating across the stage like a real fairy. Any recommendations for other ballets are welcome. I will watch them all lol

[@BrunaPacheco]

I love her lines and expression. She's so classical... one of my fav ballerinas.

[@CC-ju6vo]

Gosh, this is stunning, I think my favorite that I've ever seen. Beautiful and dreamy and strange. Rewatched about 10 times in a row.

[@violetwilliamson1300]

what a beautiful performance! So light and delicate....she didn't just execute the steps she embraced the character!.... loved it! BRAVISSIMO!!!!!

[@ashleyp733]

that was beautiful. She did the moves effortlessly. It was super quite too

[@joebeer4155]

Alina doesn't dance the Sugar Plum Fairy, she is the Sugar Plum Fairy. Tchaikovsky wrote this music especially for her,she inhaled it all of it. What an enjoyment. Thanks

[@ballettranslations1589]

I agree with you! I'm glad you liked this video, you're welcome.

[@HorseLuver098]

Best Sugar Plum Fairy choreography. I’ve seen the other older video floating around KZbin with this same choreo and it’s still so captivating. Every note has a corresponding move.

[@fionabutchart5995]

This was magical. So graceful

[@antonellapavone3879]

Stupenda, bellissima!!! ...Eccezionale tecnica, presenza scenica e grande espressività! Meravigliosa!!!

[@hipporadish4077]

Amazingly ethereal dancing. I think she might be my new favourite ballet dancer.

[@giuliorenzobighin8165]

Incredibile la seriazione dei passi sulle punte in un eundo anche di circolarità. Ottima enfatizzazione commediale al fine dell'esecutivita'. Grande impressione di naturalezza e levità praesens. MOLTO BRAVA.BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO

[@natalijaargenta959]

She moves as if she is made of glass which goes with the glass harmonica music. Almost weightless and so fragile; love her❤ perfect fairy

[@vbsun3976]

Невероятный уровень - восхитительно!

[@evaromanenco4371]

She's so handsome. Love her!

[@amasam5408]

alina's musicality (wow), technique (wow), stage presence (wow), legs (WOW)

[@e.i.3077]

While I prefer the Bolshoi's choreography, I can't deny she is an absolute delight to watch.

[@mariaalexopoulou2313]

she is so captivating😍..I never really enjoyed the variation until I found somova's

[@georgefrank7405]

How can people hate this?

[@c.borrell5192]

Everyone on ballet talk must be a snob, some people 'who like ballet' say: she must be really good, or else why would she be a principal? Somova has always been an unpopular dancer, known for her extreme lack of technique. What we see in Alina Somova is the infecting the art of ballet.

[@WungTung]

i don't think she should be higher than a soloist

[@Foudedanse]

She has was hated ever since her early promotion. Maybe she was promoted a little young, but I love her in this. I love her Queen of the Dryads too.

[@eduardasartorio8932]

Calvin Wong why didn’t you say this to the Mariinsky director?

[@The444traveler]

PERHAPS because they could NEVER be ALINA SOMOVA!!!🙌 HAVE SEVERAL SEATS you who are of the insolent hater ilk!!! Haters ALWAYS find ways to diminish a wonderful talent/ soul. Alina is a Queen!!! A queen in the one of the BEST BALLET CO's. in our World! Let THAT sink in HATERS!😡

[@lauranathaliacortes4603]

Her extension, omg. Great video!

[@ibuprofenPill]

Whoever was working the camera should be charged with being a zoom-button criminal.

[@latinbritneyspears5241]

Totally true

[@TenduYou]

Finally, something I can appreciate Somova in.

[@arinkim3962]

WOW love the choreography

[@angelgirl8533]

She is perfect as Klara/Masha who becomes the Sugar Plum Fairy in her Christmas dream. Beautiful fairytale.

[@veroarcila6208]

Amazing,beautifull😍

[@sharonreeve7509]

Lovely!

[@christelbremer657]

Since I found Alina, she is my new ballerina darling! She dances with so much expression and playfulness.

[@annieoddo1475]

I personally loved Alina in this role. I wish they didn't have to shorten this variation, but still, she was a gorgeous sugar plum fairy!

[@michaelvolovik4516]

Случайно наткнулся на эту версию "феи Сахарной сливы" , Впечатление ошеломляющее! пересмотрел ещё два раза - и конечно буду возвращаться к фее Сомовой ещё и ещё. Рад, что большинству британцев она тоже нравится.

[@sophiaslater1323]

I love this

[@LaraOlina]

she looks like one of those little doll ballerinas in music boxes... absolutely stunning!!

[@elisa-boni]

Meravigliosa!❤️

[@alinga_me]

Потрясающе.

[@janicesvoboda9065]

She is exquisite

[@Mariflor1609]

Perfection

[@salvocoss27]

Although I prefer the Bolshoi, specially Nina Kaptsova, this was magical! ❤️

[@leoxane]

She's so sweet but elegant.

[@meetmeinmontauk222]

1:20 when the floor is cold and I can't find the slippers

[@linaavetisyan2087]

She is so sweet :) real sugar plum fairy

[@moonmochii5540]

When your trying to steal food in the middle of the night

[@pinkprincessgirlypop]

has sveta ever danced sugar plum? i've been looking for it but have never found it

[@lingkejiang9244]

I don't think so... I just checked her repertory, she did Masha in Mariinsky in 1996 but I doubt if you can find videos that far back... and she has never done it in Bolshoi (which is for good reasons because if you look at the casts of such role in Bolshoi, Ekaterina Maximova, Nina Kaptsova, Anna Nikulina, Evgenia Obraztsova, they are not of the similar shape and height).

[@gpopov777]

These long beautiful well controlled legs are incomparable.

[@gzucc]

Alina Somova is a Vaganova OG! Her technique is so meshed with her facility...I think of sublimation.....I am actually inspired to compare her to Olesya Novikova..... but I won't.

[@m.x.b.9949]

She makes it look so easy

[@TheNiezwyciezony]

Brak mi słów, by oddać zachwyt. Alina Somowa to skarb kultury światowej. Kłaniam się najniżej, jak mogę.

[@fiordililia3min19]

Тёплая балерина , обаятельная и выучена очень хорошо

[@БорисФедоров-в6ь]

No ward except ”Excellent！”

[@bbkerr2829]

Oh she is so lovely. Next to Larissa Lezhnina my favourite Sugar Plum Fairy.

[@КириллГрязнов-с8ь]

Не понял куда делать вторая часть вариации, но плие в конце было прям таки очень милым? Зачет!)

[@foreverballerina7502]

I love how she is dancing like a true ballerina! However, she is a little sharp on the details in the beginning such as odette in swan lake. She has pride in her works, which is extremely "jaw-dropping" to see! :)

[@t_1234-b6q]

I wonder why they cut so much of the music. Not just the manege at the end but also the bit before the repeat of the main musical theme. It's a shame really.

[@feralnerd5]

Her dancing is beautiful! That bit around the one minute mark where she goes backwards across the stage is simply exquisite; she looks like she's floating. If I may ask, though, why was the decision made to slow down the tempo to this extent? It's a bit of a jarring thing to do to a piece of music that everyone knows so well.

[@vivianleenet]

The Russian theatres tend to do this to this particular variation. I'm not sure why.

[@The444traveler]

As a dancer I thoroughly believe imo that this is slowed down for Alina to embody the movement with her long & extended facility. Just This variation imo is like a petit allegro which works well on tiny dancers. She's NOT tiny. Yet she IS FIERCE!🔥

[@kaidenrodriguez7172]

one day I want to be like that

[@The444traveler]

Perhaps YOU WILL be JUST AS GREAT OR EVEN GREATER!!!👏🔥🙌

[@kendude8089]

Devine

[@santoangeloemdanca5896]

Hipnotizado!

[@HowDareThey1970]

How tall is she? She seems dainty and slight, like a small person, yet such long limbs.

[@ballettranslations1589]

I think she's somewhat like 175cm...

[@HowDareThey1970]

Ballet Translations oh... i'll look up what that converts to in feet and inches

[@김전일-t7y]

처음에는 하나부터 열까지 다 맘에 안들었는데 다른 무용수들 보고 나서 이 영상 보니까 레전드였다는걸 알게됨..

[@angeloskomninos6173]

Excellent performance, but half of the music piece is unreasonably cut out.

[@kvola2478]

Is this original Petipa choreography?

[@kballet2001]

It’s definitely a Mariinski orchestration I just checked lol

[@akil3120]

What year is this?

[@Федор-щ8с]

Куколка.

[@carnagegerman]

The best part of ballet is when the dancer is in perfect synchronization of the music.. the musicians are providing the paper.. the dancer, the paint

[@alinacheco3948]

Wow :3

[@alyssagreen2542]

I like to wear dresses.

[@kaidenrodriguez7172]

plus how does she stand on your toes like that

[@lucybroberg5617]

The magic of pointe

[@kaidenrodriguez7172]

Lucy Broberg thx but that's awesome

[@Serenitii]

Didn't You actually know the song is very soft, you can barely hear the song

[@giuliadanza5167]

in futuro anch io vorrei diventare etoile

[@shadowpuppet222]

I feel like her leg movements are too broad and big, the sugar plum fairy should be daintier and subtler

[@valentinasvetlaoka9153]

А где же кода? там, где ускорение темпа…? Разочарование. И очень замедленно играет оркестр. Так не годится.

[@ninacitas]

It's very long and has too large feet. Not graceful

[@MinfiAerial]

Guys ! does anyone know where i can find this version of the song ? usually it's faster and i'm really fond of that one ^^ anyone can help ? thanks !