Sara Mearns PBS Spotlight

[@sarahyoak942]

Sara is my favorite dancer. Role model forever.

[@judeeustis2521]

I just love Sara! She is such a beautiful dancer

[@stemikger]

I never liked ballet until I discovered Sara. She made me a fan. I forget all my worries when I watch her.

[@AbbyOwensTV]

dear sara, i live in charlotte, NC. i have been dancing for a while now and i just got my first pair of pointe shoes. i just wanted to tell you that you are my favorite dancer ever! you are amazing. Don't ever give up. -abby

[@fabiesque]

Sara Mearns is different. She takes you into an emotional journey already on the interviews. Before I saw her on stage I could not understand what the hack was supposed to be so special about her. When I finally saw her on stage I was speechless. She created a magnetic field, almost like smoking opium...and you would wake up brutally at the end of the piece with the audience clapping. A truly unique experience watching her perform. She is like out of a David Lynch movie.

[@takenoprisoners837]

I love the way you described this. I would love to see her.

[@trishkoran3293]

Could you repost with the entire video intact? This is such a brilliant piece on Sara & it’s too bad that the 2nd half is wiped out! 😢

[@imapineapple15]

10:05 is simply stunning and breath taking! The arm at the end and the look. Just wow.

[@aidank3237]

3:02 That’s adorable🥰✨🥰✨

[@chrisg4584]

She's got such beautiful, muscular legs!

[@funeralgiggle3771]

Couldn't see the end part of the video.

[@donschwellenbach5461]

i just love taht dance critic, he is so enthusiastic

[@haroldmoody9609]

beautiful, expressive,, and powerful....wonderful dancer

[@HJ-ju4ui]

Sara Mearns dancing is breathtaking

[@fabiesque]

she has to be the only charismatic dancer of these days. She is an artist. Fullstop.

[@svetavinogradova4243]

you are so limited in your knowledge of ballet... Sarah is a very mediocre and avery non-beautiful dancer.

[@shopandsearch]

please fix it

[@room2growrose623]

Swan lake, truly one of the most rigorous and challenging ballets for a ballerina, akin to an iron man competition, but every day for a period of weeks’!! Now add emotion! Incrioable!!

[@bobloblaw9679]

the lead role in the full version of the sleeping beauty is considered by most ballerinas to be more difficult, but, yes....this is a challenge

[@BiblioGLAMDrama]

I love ❤️ that Sara enjoys playing the White Swan 🦢 more!

[@shreyanair7564]

You really inspire me every day and i hope i can meet u one day. I just wanted to ask whether u need to finish all the grades in ballet before u become a professional dancer. Pls do reply. Thks!!

[@pedinurse1]

she is not your regular Russian dancer, she is ballet ,American style....beautiful

[@svetavinogradova4243]

You think this is ... beautiful??? Why tutu at all? A sportsuit would look better on this body.

[@delaneymael]

So was she never a soloist or anything? Straight from the corps to a principle dancer?

[@WhitneyPowell1992]

i thought that was a little too strange too........... but I didnt wanna say anything.........

[@SkylarLux]

@@WhitneyPowell1992 It is TOO strange indeed... make no mistake about that!

[@kzt1602]

The final 1/4 portion of the video has been erased. Please kindly reupload!

[@pontiacgirl73]

MORE VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[@catherinebuchanan2385]

i wish i could meet u

[@takenoprisoners837]

I absolutely loved watching this, I was so into it and then the video just died. What a buzzkill 🙄

[@gerryleb8575]

This video craps out about 2/3 of the way through. Too bad.

[@sheribrooks8205]

If they would hire more minorities, it may bring in more money. People need to feel connected in order for them to support different art forms. Break those archaic rules and open your hearts. Get with the times.

[@saharatopaz558]

Blast vid turns to crap 11:30 - tech problems...

[@svetavinogradova4243]

I just cannot believe the comments... after seeing Russian and French ballerinas and their lines - how is it possible to enjoy this?

[@ahoward3819]

Specifically because it is NOT French or Russian. If that is what you want to see then go watch it.

[@svetavinogradova4243]

@@ahoward3819 I see, you go to see ugly precisely because beautiful standards are French or Russian.

[@svetavinogradova4243]

@@ahoward3819 Sarah Mearns would not even pass throyugh facial selection before ballet school, as one of her eyes sits anout an inch lower than another, it is a cranial deformity, excuse me.

[@ahoward9198]

@@svetavinogradova4243 Not true. But I appreciate the differences in them and see each for its own positives and negatives. You should try it. Or not. It is up to you to choose to not see the beauty in something. And that speaks much more about you then it does a ballet dancer.

[@svetavinogradova4243]

@@ahoward9198 What is not true? She is square as a wardrobe, no waist, torso of a colonei., short and stocky, with right eye much lower than her left eye ( cranial deformity) and swollen saliva glands of an experienced bulimic. This is my personal opinion based on her videos. You need to recalibrate your sense of beauty.

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

Mearns hunches her shoulders. I feel that her upper body just is not the unstrained arched beauty of many non-Balanchine dancers of a certain elegant, effortless suppleness of arms and back. Balanchine arms and hands, for me, do not compare to the Russian school and the other languid ballet dancers of a certain rich, flowing, and effortless quality of balletic movement. I think Gelsey Kirkland left New York City ballet so that she could indeed train her body into that more honed, drawn out style of port de bras and between-step transitions that Russian greats such as Natalia Markova whom Kirkland idolized did to superlative effect. I think Mearns as a young girl had better feet and a certain easeful quality that she as an adult dancer -for me - doesnt have. The feet of some Balanchine dancers I find unaesthetic and stiff and not well-arched. I wonder if the pointe shoes that New York City Ballet dancers wear has anything to do with that.

[@laurenjohnson4759]

Brenda Anne Du Faur it very well could be the freed brand of shoe that could be causing the feet. The amount of athletic work that is needed from the dancers in SAB and NYCB could be adding to the more muscular frames on the women. Ballet expects another level of athleticism that matches what a lot of the male dancers were always required in the past. My current ballet school calls the SAB fingers "monster fingers" because they do tend to be more stiffly in place. It's all personal preference of whatever director may be in charge. That's what is so beautiful about having many companies around the world- a little something for everyone.😊

[@philipcondenzio1035]

I call them ( their hands) crab claws. Just awful to watch.

[@dancer2189]

Philip Condenzio then don't fucking watch???

[@kendahke]

@@laurenjohnson4759 oh shut up

[@catalinaguzmancantante212]

I dont know if she shrisnks them or if her bone structure is like that and she cant help it.

[@jstekic]

this is obviously not Guillem, Zakharova, Semionova,... there is nothing like Vaganova or French school....

[@Jayjen35]

+Jasmina Tekic ....no sh** Sherlock... Balanchine. This is Balanchine. This is speed, precision, musicality, passion, strength, genius... So you are right. This is not French, Russian, or even English technique, thank heavens. There are companies who excel at these. Do we really want NYCB to drop Balanchine's aesthetic to try to be Russian or French??

[@neelycrombie1263]

+Jayjen35 Nothing compares to the drama, the speed and precision of Balanchine. At NYCB they are told to do it as big as possible and they will tell you when its to much.

[@neelycrombie1263]

What Ballet did you see Sara Mearns in.? I want to see her dance so bad... I am trying to make a trip to NYC this fall

[@Jayjen35]

Neely Crombie That is great! It is my dream to be able to fly into NY two or three weeks every year especially to see NYCB, ABT, DTH, galleries, museums...yeah I'm kind of a nerd but boy would I be a VERY happy one!

[@suzzym1]

well said!

[@hotdougie]

Im sorry her feet in those fouettes .....