Ballerina's Life - Documentary about Prima Ballerina Oxana Kardash / "Who-is She?"

"Always when you are growing up, when you are moving somewhere, there is no ultimate goal, because it is also growing. The deeper you go, the more it seems that you know nothing. The rank of a Prima ballerina is not the very goal in principle, and there was never such a goal - to be a Prima ballerina… Sometimes you look back to your results, and, of course, encourage yourself in your achievements, but… anyway I don’t feel the full and unconditional rank of a Prima". Оxana Kardash
"Когда ты куда-то идешь - нет конечной цели. Чем больше ты углубляешься, тем больше тебе кажется, что ты ничего не знаешь. Статус примы - это, в принципе, не сама цель, никогда не было такой цели. Иногда смотришь назад - на свои результаты, поощряешь себя в каких-то достижениях, но… все равно, полного и однозначного статуса примы я не чувствую". Оксана Кардаш
A Film by Alisa Aslanova: / alisaaslanova1
Co Executive Producer Karina Zhitkova: / karina_zhitkova
Editor Katarina Bornovitskaya
Music by
I Monster "Heaven", "Who is She?": / @dharmarecordsuk
Brooklyn Duo "Young & Beautiful: / @brooklynduo
Zemfira "Walking"
Production by © La Personne Studio 2018

[@bbjonas4233]

She truly looks like one of those perfect figurines I used to have on my jewelry box as a little girl

[@skeltonjuanita6515]

She has such a really magical look from head to toe! Her face twinkles even without make up and is aesthetically pleasing in poses that set the head and neck in profile….stunningly beautiful. She has a tiny head which lends itself to a very fine porcelain appearance. Then you get to watch her staccato en pointe foot work that looks so strong! She seems to purposefully place her whole body exactly where she alone wants it! Strength in pseudo-fragility! I think she excels with purpose! You can trust her work because she is ballet in muscle and ligament. I haven’t seen hardly enough to do her Justice! Thank you for so much devotion to an art form!

[@eddienono2857]

You can see that the Stanislavsky does not have the resources of the Bolshoi or the Mariinsky. But the dancing still is at a very high level, and the determination to make is so is evident in this documentary. Bravo. Well done by a lovely ballerina.

[@TheMumsel]

She is the best Moscow ballerina of her generation and thanks god she stays big fish in rather small pond than small fish in Bolshoi. Stanislavsky is warm cosy home for its artists, friendship and no rivalry and reasonably priced tickets. And Stanislavsky has its own devoted audience not the rich tourists at Bolshoi, I adore Oxana and the theater

[@jenh4516]

Gorgeous. Wish the subtitles were bigger or on a black background.

[@natsa725]

Отличный фильм! За 14 минут раскрыть душу балета! Спасибо

[@marielleguadalupegarza8935]

that was amazing, I've never seen something like this before, it made me tear up, it is just art

[@gillschmid5267]

An absolute joy to watch, you are outstanding. Thank you so much for all your hard work which has brought magnificent results.

[@donnabernhardi6155]

so beautiful, and amazing. Thank you for sharing, love from Cape Town, South Africa.

[@ianbell2288]

Great film, but there is a big problem reading the English (or any language) subtitles as their background colour is too light. At parts of the movie, they become unreadable. Other than that, outstanding work, thank you. Also should note that the actual subtitle translations look to have been done by google as they are not very accurate, certainly in English they are not.

[@333flowerpower]

Волшебная, нереальная пластика и грация ❤

[@magdalena2969]

the young and beautiful melody was so on pointe

[@Debster8554]

gorgeous, never heard it like this

[@donnabernhardi6155]

really love this film and how it is made - thank you Alisa. I think I'm going to watch it a 1000 times over! xx

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

Thank you very much for the video. Subtitles need to be large and on a black box background. They were barely readable.

[@Позитивчик-г8л]

Когда то я о таких фильмах могла только мечтать, а теперь наконец-то наслаждаюсь,спасибо🙏

[@virginiaviola5097]

Such an interesting face, and such a beautiful dancer. Simply gorgeous.

[@NamYanSpb]

Отличная работа!

[@filiasfog]

Очень круто, а так же ее слова очень хорошие

[@rpm__]

너무 아름답고 멋지십니다👍💕beautiful😮😍

[@bonniefranklin6097]

Well done. lovely

[@zoeypapadopoulou112]

If somethings doesn't work out for us its a sign that God has something better for us.

[@ratchakanphopeth8172]

I still remember her as Myrtha. she was performed Giselle 2 years ago in Thailand.

[@lindanorris2455]

GORGEOUS!

[@маринабелякова-я4й]

Супер!💐💞

[@angiel2710]

Wow what an amazing Prima Ballerina.

[@gacelasballet3407]

Beautiful

[@inasabina1832]

What really makes people go through all that pain and suffering to be ballet dancer? With all my respect and admiration, how it starts and why?

[@gailjacobson9736]

This is impossible to watch and I understand if you don’t speak Russian. The subtitles are tiny and often they are disguised by images on the screen that block them. I would love to watch this but I just can’t

[@giorgiovolli7499]

Sublime !!

[@Anna-ys2sv]

She could definitely be the black swan

[@TheMumsel]

and she is, we have one ballerina for Odette/Odille

[@viktoriyajane1018]

Ona prekrasna

[@dianamora6768]

so beautiful...

[@milenahakobyan2123]

😭💞

[@missbalet]

обожаю баядерку, у меня девочка с танцев тоже танцует вариацию никии

[@normamimosa5991]

So who is she? You never told us. Which company?

[@jmhamster998]

Prima ballerina of the theater Stanislavsky and nemirovich-danchenko

[@nauipatoni3984]

You body is little but also stronge who one person practice CrossFit is amazing

[@mohamedelhoussein155]

Can you make the subtitles smaller ?

[@annetheyssier5087]

Dommage que cela ne soit pas doubler en anglais !

[@РаисаДроздова-д6б]

Привет треть Оксана ,это твоя плимяница из Дагестана.У тебя есть еще двоюродная сестра Рая. Я тебя никогда не видела ,ты танцует балет а я пою.😁

[@NairaSt]

Com Tell Оксана из Дагестана ?

[@nauipatoni3984]

This work is Many demanding old timé dacing ,and dancig because begin young talent

[@elbacarrillo2720]

Lovely film but horrible background of translation- waste of time trying to read. Too bad. 👎🏻😿

[@СветланаИванова-о2ч4я]

!!!

[@TheIndigoworld]

*bones poking through her skin* “I seem to have gotten fat”. (Not trying to skinny shame here, just pointing that thought out)

[@Novacantnamesofffyou]

it's a part of her job. to be fit and elegant. she looks much helathier than fat people anyway. and yes, she chose it.

[@TheIndigoworld]

@@Novacantnamesofffyou quite true, when she dances you can see she's really strong

[@TheMumsel]

she said it because the top seemed to tight

[@TheMumsel]

@@TheIndigoworld she is skinny from waist up, but my god, what a strong beautiful legs she has, her arabesques and balance are fantastic

[@wkjeom]

@@Novacantnamesofffyou I read the story of a young girl, 21, a ballerina who died in a rare event that she got to be with her family. She had to stay so thin for the ballet that it killed her. She was on a rare trip with her family. When they stopped they found she was dead. She had just sat there and died never making a sound. I worked with a former ballarena. She was beautiful. She had quit. She married and had a baby. She told me she had to have a c-section to have her baby. The reason. Her muscles were so tight from the ballet that she could not deliver her baby normally. I knew a neighbor in Fresno, California who went into ballett. At 14, she had to leave her family and move forever to San Francisco to be in ballet. Sounds like a life I would not be willing to live. Very few professions require so much of an individual. Way too much is required.

[@miabesse]

[@balletshoes]

She strikes me as deeply sad and lonely person who isn't interested in anything.

[@terra3524]

Exactly :(

[@dianatrang1188]

I thought quite the opposite. I thought she's very down to earth, not trying to act like it is all one big blast hashtag blessed.

[@tonyjames5444]

It's just the way Russians come across to people.

[@TheMumsel]

no, she is not, she loves fun and has a lot of friends, she is very nice person

[@wkjeom]

She is sad. She has NO LIFE OF HER OWN. Ballet owns her every waking moment.

[@kathymyers7279]

Her feet are beautiful!

[@lindanorris2455]

BALLET IS UNDERAPPRECIATED THESE DAYS!

[@melbremo]

español

[@Надежда-о5и2ц]

Необычный такрй типаж... балерина-гопник

[@xrinoname]

her dancing is amazing but she comes off as an unlikeable character

[@EvgeniyDolzhenko]

Why?

[@mehrnaz4288]

You are self projecting.

[@TheMumsel]

she is likable at once, I noticed and liked her first time I saw her on stage, since then I am her devoted admirer like many others, I try not to miss her performances

[@peaceandlove544]

Kardash, she must be a distant relative of the Kardashians

[@robloxmaniacdanceandshake7871]

Ballerinas should never eat cheese.....

[@daenerysargaryen2823]

why?

[@thayrathyn]

A poor woman works out and trains hours per day, GOD FORBID she has a slice of cheese time to time...

[@aeswl]

false.

[@hdhdhd-4935]

I think its so the dont fart😅

[@nauipatoni3984]

@@daenerysargaryen2823 because the Cheese's have many caliries ando this gril you body can't fast