The Nutcracker - Pas de Deux | Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater

[@beafitze5909]

There’s this odd lump in my throat... How wonderful to see you on stage again Joy, performing to that exquisite music! And so well filmed too. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

[@wynnneal4505]

Wow! This is the first time I've seen a good professional video shot of your performance from the front of the stage. And you look beautiful. Your lines and your moves are exquisite

[@AnnaVonCleves90]

You made this look easy. When I danced this years ago, I went off stage and immediately fell to the ground in exhaustion.

[@anikaxmeisel]

So cool to see the orchestra in the background!

[@monongahelacats]

I'm so thrilled to see you dancing again! Brava!

[@seaofglass77]

Exquisite. Thank you thank you. As a musician I also really enjoyed seeing the orchestra on stage. I know that isn't always done, but it really made the collaboration required for great ballet visible. And Joy, you are incredible. I'm so glad you had this wonderful setting.

[@beagru5706]

Thank you very much for sharing this graceful moment🌻🌺🌹🏵️💮🌸💐 ✨. Поздравляю всех🍀 🎼🎵🎶😘

[@kristinen7611]

So wonderful to see you dancing again!!!! Thank you for posting!!!

[@nancy8070]

I got chills. So lovely to see

[@gwynethgrove772]

Beautiful, just wonderful to see you dancing and looking so well. A real treat to have this beauty on a cold September day with so much distress around the world, it’s lifts the spirit. Thank you.

[@OleanderProducing]

I love Tschaikowsky all the way, his music makes me cry with joy

[@fiddleDdee]

So happy to see you perform! Lovely! Thank you for sharing!

[@lauraswihart8018]

She works incredibly hard!💥💥

[@emstewart986]

What a thrill Joy. I so hope you enjoyed yourself. I am very happy that you have returned to the stage. I wish you much happiness

[@laurieonfroy2810]

I love this pas de deux. It s a pleasure to see you filmed by professionals cameras! Wonderful costume...

[@kathleenlynch5763]

How lovley to see you again Joy.ive been watching you for a few years now but never commented before . Your dancing if beautifull as always wellcome back.

[@32446]

Gorgeous. Please don’t ever stop dancing.

[@penelopepolinsneemeyer4757]

Loving seeing you back on stage xxxxxxxxxxx

[@pedinurse1]

What a joy to see Joy dancing

[@joywomack]

Thank you so much!!

[@consueloperez7578]

BRAVO !!!!!!! you look spectacular !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dkeyes9825]

Joy you are so exquisite! I can’t stop watching you dance!

[@ekaterina5]

Sometimes it's good to have a break and then come back with new aspirations. Congratulations 👍💐

[@ryleimiller672]

You always make me cry, Joy! You're so beautiful!!!!!

[@cf8595]

This is the most beautiful you've ever looked! You seem stronger, longer, and even more flexible.

[@franlooving4203]

SO VERY BEAUTIFUL! What a treat for the audience-you, the partner, the orchestra! Just lovely!

[@MadisonBarras]

You look so strong and vibrant! Congratulations and welcome back to the stage.

[@dmswan3172]

Thank you, this is so beautiful!🩰🌟🎼

[@TheNocturnalpheonix]

J'adore! Just lively, and lovely to see you back in deux.🤘🏼😘💐

[@dmswan3172]

Absolutely gorgeous - thank you for sharing your wonderful gift!🌟🌟🌟

[@melriddell]

Stunning performance!

[@time2tic]

A pure delight to see you dance with such lightness and expression. Fantastic

[@infallibleblue]

Stunning as always. Your strength and beauty exudes all the time. Love from Las Vegas.

[@robertaduranmonforte4345]

what a beauty!

[@Larisa-ts6lr]

Yes! You are back in business, Joy!!! Wonderful!

[@thelittlemaldos1389]

Joy 👏!!! Bravo!!!

[@easypiano2023]

Молодчинка, Джой! Любуюсь каждым отточенным движением! Браво!!!!

[@sofiaclarosmedina134]

Beautiful ♥️♥️👑👑

[@karenuksewasemx8250]

Absolutely beautiful !!

[@starschina9241]

Русская школа , JOY брависимо 👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷

[@wildflower4052]

It is a real joy to see you dancing on stage again. Congaratulations to you and your partner !

[@susannevollmer2347]

Good to see´you again, dear Joy. Jou are looking beautifull,. Hope to see the whole Nutcracker in Kremlinballet soon?

[@antpu238]

Как же я соскучился по таким видео! Thanks!

[@nataliatroubnicova4253]

Well done. Absolutely superb. Molodetz.

[@mirnagoldberger7028]

As usual, so passionate and wonderful!

[@claindastuart6790]

Loved it! 💐

[@russianballet681]

What a lovely surprise , thank you Joy!

[@JustMe-qr9jj]

Gorgeous as always 🥰

[@larafila3197]

Браво, Джой!!! Вы умница, красавица и большая молодец!!! Будьте здоровы и счастливы, успехов в карьере!!!

[@evamariamitter3020]

You dance with such joy and musicality !

[@christieessien1366]

You are such a beautiful dancer!!!

[@katerinabanecourt]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@heatheradams4428]

I have always been impressed with your flexibility and strength. In this piece I was impressed with your emoting. I felt what you were dancing!! Well done Joy!!

[@gailjacobson9736]

So beautiful. You clearly haven't lost anything in Covid!

[@sarahh4458]

LOL, she never 'had anything to lose', except her parents money that is i.e. the cost of her Bolshoi training. Mind you, the Bolshoi School only accepts outsiders that are willing to pay, in order to continue being able to train their own non-fee paying talented students; so yes, thanks Joy (or should I say her parents) for continuing the funding of such a great ballet school.

[@ЕленаБессонова-г5ф]

рада видеть что ты приходишь в форму, Джой !

[@asclepius3117]

Radiant!

[@StarDreamMemories]

Very nice performance 💗

[@jenh4516]

Great job!

[@monicaloughman1284]

Delighted you are back . Well done ❤️

[@joywomack]

Thank you!! That means so much! Hope to meet you one day!!

[@normamimosa5991]

I agree, Joy. It is great to see you dancing in a soloist/principal guest role again, and in the style for which you have spent years training. Back in Russia? Citizen of Russia and the U.S., offering all kinds of new adventures in each country for you and that good looking, talented and apparently charming fiancé of yours! Maybe a position with this new ballet company (I know, it's pretty new, probably with all kinds of hurdles, but it says it has a mandate to build a ballet company of excellence.) I would love to see you settled back in Russia, where you learned your craft, learned the language and went through hoops to obtain Russian permanent residency. An open door and presence in both countries? That would be great. Good for you, Joy. Your talent far exceeds guest/aunt at the Nutcracker family party. My thoughts are, of course, my own. Your path, your own. Meantime, it would be great to see the Boston Ballet recognize your talent and cast you accordingly. Remember, always be publicly discreet.

[@2snowgirl520]

And we will never know. Joy is vague. And she is not happy if she can’t be a principal dancer. I don’t see her getting anywhere in the US.

[@Innaballet]

Bravissima Joy!!! Wonderful!!!

[@mackiceicukice]

Очень понравилось спасибо 😙.

[@CTwenty7]

BRAVA!!! BRAVA!! BRAVA!!!

[@dorisrapino8694]

Beautiful! just beautiful! I am quite curious about your pointe shoes. The block part looks very swuate and flat. I don't remember ever moticing that before.

[@erikajohns9346]

What a beautiful performance Joy!!! You and your partner did an amazing job.

[@davidg858]

Awesome Joy!

[@yugoslav26]

Very good

[@lisar9425]

There is a suspicious lack of critical comments here...

[@jessicah3450]

I've noticed she's always a bit off timing with the music, not that I could do any better. My teacher told us to listen to the music, maybe it was just my instructor. I wonder if they teach dancers to read music. We practiced with a metronome to get perfect timing.

[@Sergey_bat]

Привет! Joy. Ты выступала в Астрахани?

[@jennabishop1283]

💐💐💐

[@lulamax7942]

YOUVE BEEN MISSED

[@jmjojolemoineau9129]

❤👏

[@emcasifan2869]

what version of sugar plum variation is this?

[@manga12]

ahhhh, you dance just as well as a Russian that was born and raised in this technique of ballet, and look soo pretty in all that white its exciting for us to see you get to perform again, after all the mill life has taken you though, all the stuff you did and do to take us along for the journey of the first American to graduate from the Vaganova, and dance with the world famed bolshie, and our entrepreneur and eyes into the mystical world of Russian dance, past the beauty into the politics and hard work it takes to make the magic. keep on keeping on and press on like the true Texan you are

[@levondelite4072]

I’ve enjoyed watching Joy’s progress too but 1 correction, she did not attend nor graduate from Vaganova. It was the Bolshoi school.

[@manga12]

@@levondelite4072 well I know she was like the first westerner to do it or atleast from the americas when she did. she's an interesting one, elegant but Texan country girl, American but of Russian or Ukrainian lineage, buisness woman but down to earth, and sharing her struggles which are many.

[@jessicah3450]

They teach Russian technique in Texas 😂 It just depends on which instructor you pick. Texas has cities by the way, we're not all "country". She is from California, you can tell by her accent. Many Californians moved to Texas in the 80's and 90's and continue to do so, because the real estate is cheaper.

[@manga12]

@@jessicah3450 I know they have cities, most of your anime and cartoon dubbing is done there, two of the major studios like funimation, and the remnants of ad vision, I belive megazone 23 films is there, and tons of industry, it also has its own german dialect spoken down there like how they have Penn Dutch in the Anabaptist communities up north here. of course the real-estate is cheaper its one of the biggest states with land, and lots of it and no where near the rules and regulations and bureaucracy that californa has, I know some also want to turn the reddest political state blue in some peoples eye, but tex dont have the crazy population density or crazy laws they have in cali, I mean its expensive people working for tech firms and cant even afford a place to live three or four years ago its crazy. but you say most of texas teaches the russian method?

[@walksandwater9447]

Who is the guy?

[@darkmag1382]

О мой край)))

[@paulhe001]

Wow, so beautiful! Forgive my ignorance on all subjects ballet, but is it rather early for Nutcracker? Also, what is it like dancing in front of the orchestra, I imagine it must be harder?

[@NatashaEstrada]

In Russia, they perform it all year round. It's not a Christmas ballet to them.

[@paulhe001]

@@NatashaEstrada Thanks!

[@ekaterina5]

It's not a full ballet, it's a consert with some pieces of different ballets. Dedicated to Tchaikovsky anniversary.

[@ВолкЧерный-р8ь]

вот теперь мы узнаём нашу Джоечку, танцующую и улыбающуюся, надеюсь, и до Махачкалы доберешься еще разок) в Астрахани вроде базируется и еще одна иностранка, Лара Параскив из Канады, вы с ней не встречались?) kzbin.infovideos

[@normamimosa5991]

For a second, I thought Misha was one of the Sleeping Beauty suitors.

[@joywomack]

He was!!!

[@valerykolesnikov3724]

Чет или мне показалось, но мужик ее перетанцевал)))

[@zamyrabyrd]

Why do the strings sound out of tune?

[@Patrick22557]

You are dancing with joy like a little girl. Very hard to achieve after tons of training. That is what we want to see. Dancing not perfect technique and tricks. BRAVO p.s. it probably was perfect technique