Renata Shakirova and David Zaleyev: Nutcracker Snow Pas de Deux

Renata Shakirova and David Zaleyev in the Act I Snow Pas de Deux of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, performed by the Mariinsky Ballet.
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[@jakobkozlowski7348]

Wow! I’m blown away. I cried! Best version! And beautiful dancers. Their legs and upper bodies are gorgeous. And their dancing so fluid. Especially the boy. Bravo! Woooow!

[@wizzyjr]

Me too, I was absolutely blown away, This was truly a masterpiece, Im dancing snow king in a local production.

[@bellaaaron114]

Her arabesques and the en dedans pirouettes, wow!

[@muzukiko3003]

Those courus, turns and extensions are amazing!

[@m.x.b.9949]

How someone can every get their arabesque that high?!

[@r.r.c7692]

horrible high extensions... classical dancing is dying.

[@muzukiko3003]

@@krystalj4070 I agree with you. I am also a ballet dancer and those high extensions do take many years of work. Yes, you need back strength and flexibility to be able to do that and many Russians including Renata Shakirova have very flexible backs.

[@jennchum]

They were STUNNING. Beautiful dancer!

[@valeriepagendarm6376]

Nothing snow about this and the ballerina appears to be dressed for the role of Maria in West Side Story but the choreography and the performance are impossibly beautiful. As the comment before mine noted the ballerina's arabesque is unreal and the attitude! I wonder if her toe touches the floor in front of her in ponche. Sorry for the spelling errors.😞

[@youngprodigy2008]

Beautiful Bravo! Давно я такого не видел

[@jorgenicolas1755]

Precioso!! Uno de los mejores Pas De Deux que he visto en mi vida!!😍❤👏😍❤👏

[@giuliorenzobighin8165]

Ottimo questo balletto che contempla quello che con un mio neologismo mi piace chiamare convolo aereo ed elanista della ballerina ottimamente indotto e tenuto dal partner con bilico di difficoltà massima ed eseguito con una non chalance esecutiva d'acchito sorprendente.Ottima impressione di facilità esecutiva d'acchito sorprendente per entrambi e di levità fatta tensione motile sorprendente nella ballerina. Ottime le poae figurali nell'ensembe.Otti.o il senso del continuum dato alla pièce danzante dai protagonisti. Superlativi. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@petetotaro9510]

Super Pas de deux

[@user-zl3df2qw3g]

Восхитительны!!!!

[@NatureChannel11366]

An amazing couple.

[@user-rv3sf4st3w]

very nice

[@joeswampdawghenry]

Magtasticoabulous!

[@user-rv3sf4st3w]

رائع استمروا

[@valenciarusliani6851]

great

[@cesareforese4545]

Caicosky👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌞🧡❤️💚

[@esraokan]

Vrry elegante

[@user-xr5hv5dn4g]

踊るすごい

[@sherwood7hp]

Who choreographed this?! Someone who’s never danced before? The pas de deux is usually my favorite part of the nutcracker, but I couldn’t even get past 3 min. “Arabesque, grand jete, arabesque, arabesque, grand jete, …oh what the hell, throw another arabesque in there….and 20 more grand jetes!” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@drdancerlisa]

Life's too short to waste Tchaikovsky cymbal clashes. Whoever choreographed this seems to have little regard for the music.

[@jakobkozlowski7348]

dancerlisa this is the best choreography to this!!! All others are even more painful. Vainonen’s Nutcracker is the best.

[@itsjulz103]

Dance is all about the exploration of self expression through movement initiated by the feeling of the music. Not one being on the planet has the right to say how the music should be used not even the composer them-self. What you're watching in this video is the way the choreographer feels the music and shows you the way the music makes THEM want to move. In dance there is no "right" or "wrong" when it comes to the specific choreography portrayed along side the music, there is just simply dance. Everyone is allowed their own artistic take and view on the choreography that should be danced to the music just like you clearly have yours so how about we, instead of putting it down and pushing a choreographers artistic expression out of the door, try and support one another's expression of dance instead.

[@valeriepagendarm6376]

I confess that I love the shmaltzy dramatic and death defying lift timed precisely on the cymbal crash. I do believe that the composer meant "ballerina aloft" in that moment and "to be followed by echos in the form of equally arduous and brilliant maneuvers on each of the succeeding cymbal crashes". It does stun the audience so that the last bit can be almost anything and it will still result in a beat of silence followed by thunderous applause. It always makes the audience feel cheated because the dancers are gone by the time the applause begins.

[@levondelite4072]

dancerlisa I love her beautiful backward traveling bourrees.

[@RJ-fg6bg]

Beautiful, beautiful dancers. But I agree. How can you totally ignore the music and not utilize the crashes?! Wow. Well I guess everyone hears music differently. Lol.

[@TheLouisnavarrete]

horrifying.