Uliana Lopatkina@Swan Lake

Swan Lake,32 fouetté turns in Act 3
The Mariinsky Ballet
29/5/2006 et 1/6/2006 et 3/6/2006
Uliana Lopatkina et Danila Korsuntsev

[@dynamic4IP]

We met her also in Toronto, and chatted for about 15-20 min, absolutely amazing person. After seeing her outstanding performance on the stage, we couldn't believe when we saw her outside in the "real world" and she stopped to give us the autograph! I think that she is a real celebrity, someone who has a great work and performance behind her plus stays normal person, not like these new "stars" with 15min of fame...

[@An_Gold]

She is a real celebrity indeed, thank you for the post

[@anapadilla5216]

She is perfection. I have never seen any other prima ballerina attack Odile with such vivacity. Amazing.

[@apsutter]

Wow...she is amazing! So graceful and delicate while also being incredibly controlled and quick. Love the way she uses her arms and her face is so enthralling! This is what a ballerina should be

[@rocketmustarddog]

Love her long lines and musicality. She's one of the tallest ballerinas at 5'9" in height, inspiring for the new generation of tall women in ballet schools.

[@MargaretGeorgila]

Лебединое Озеро-название, музыку написал И. Пётр Чайковский!!

[@jankoraven]

I don't understand why people feel the need to prefer one dancer to another. I love Uliana Lopatkina AND Gillian Murphy!

[@paulineiv878]

I definitely agree with you. Uliana is very talented. check her out dancing the " dying swan" she'll bring you to tears

[@mandeloo9404]

Pauline IV her dying swan is transcendent. The best I've ever seen. She looks like she's actually dying

[@marissaortega1386]

Pauline IV amazing the best dying swan

[@kittona8754]

With those arms and her beautiful long neck... she does indeed look just like a dying swan. I could watch Ulyana forever.

[@MariaTheMonkey]

Went to see this performance yesterday! it was absolutely amazing! I have no words. I actually got the chance to meet Uliana Lopatkina in person, she gave me her autograph and we talked. She is so sweet!

[@chinadollcjo]

She is absolutely amazing. She's ridiculously famous in Russia and the world over. They treat ballerinas like rockstars over there. I feel like she has the perfect technique, but she's interesting to watch because she puts such personality and energy into her performances!! I love American ballet too, but I can definitely tell Russian ballerinas from the others. They train with military discipline and are really intense.

[@kerrykaneshiro]

Out of all the Swan Lakes I've collected on DVD, this one (Decca 2007) is my favorite, both because of the excellent quality of the video and because of Lopatkina's magnificence.

[@worldofjess7862]

She barely travels at all during the series of fouttes. That is some serious control. I love this woman.

[@boleyn123]

WorldOfJess I know nothing of ballet but I think you are quite right. She is fabulous. And.... you have very good taste.

[@casshews]

Yes, i agree with you.

[@balletbonnie01]

Makanrova is the Queen, ALWAYS and FOREVER

[@sushisoju28]

are you sure ? saw her going back and forth all the time during the 32 turns

[@boleyn123]

Can truthfully say I have never seen anything like Lopatkina before and probably never will again! Incredible does not cover it. I would sell my soul (if I have one) to see this live. Thank you so much for this.

[@tairastuart]

mark prescott you have one! So not sell it. LOL

[@AdriBarr]

She is such a beautiful dancer, a direct link to Vaganova through her teacher the great Natalia Dudinskaya. This tradition in the Russian school is so magnificent. How fortunate Lopatkina's students will be! \

[@bbatjargal1549]

Lopatkina is now the Russia's Prima Ballerina Absoluta!

[@sydandtaytum]

came here from watching alina samova do the same dance, and this one is so much more fluid and graceful...i can see how style makes up such a large part of dance, even such a structured dance like ballet.

[@zeldazemenes8914]

Божественная!! Неповторимая!! Красивая женщина!!

[@anukibalerina]

Lopatkina is a true Ballerina! Graceful, precise and beautiful!

[@brendonmcmorrow3886]

Lopatkina is a goddess. Thank you for uploading.

[@AmalteaF.-vx3bp]

Like Ballerina, I only can say that Ulyana Lopatkina is my inspiration. I have great Prima Ballerinas who has inspired me over all my career, Ulanova, Plisetskaya, Makarova,...but from the first time I saw dancing Ulyana Lopatkina in Sherezade I absolutely though : What a talent, musicality, feeling, ...She isn't performing the rol, she's living her performance!!! She's Unique. 🙏🏻❤️🩰🌹

[@georgej.b3567]

She is breathtaking! Adore her!

[@almaflored2480]

George J.B TX

[@TenduYou]

I love how she does not overpower her fouettes. A perfect display of effortless control.

[@Selcuk.Aytimur]

She is the queen, the best swan ever.

[@worldofjess7862]

TRUTH. Not even Polina has her beat in this ballet.

[@colab82]

Agree

[@Selcuk.Aytimur]

thank you

[@Selcuk.Aytimur]

I have just seen Galina in Raymonda...thank you again

[@idebobzz]

black swan is the hardest variation. thats why its rare for people to do it in yagp... its insane. she did an amazing job

[@user-ic6qz1vk3d]

У Лопаткиной лучшие руки в балете!

[@MsDewa222]

и худшие ноги

[@user-hg1rx2xv4g]

Black Swan, White Swan, Dying Swan, Lopatkina is the One & Only.

[@teenovels]

the audience loves her! and she loves the audience back, so beautiful! :)

[@giuliorenzobighin8165]

Ottimo impadronirsi del proscenio da parte del ballerino a balzi falcati amplissimi ed a sforbiciate velocissime e trasverse volanti.OTtima riconduzione dei passi alla melodia come se avesse immiato l'euritmia da parte della ballerina con pose figurali efficaci.Ottima impressione di facilità esecutiva d'acchito e di levità fluente fatta tensione elanista e motile sorprendente. OLTREMODO BRAVI. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO

[@guusjepuusje]

She is just só graceful! Absolutely the best swan I've ever seen!

[@Alekfendi]

How can people even compare this interpretation with that of Gillian Murphy? Uliana Lopatkina is just so more in control, look at those lines, how fluid she is, her port de bras this is nothing Madame Murphy can match. Honestly and personally I prefer less turns, but cleaner movements. These fouttées are so much better, so well controlled, perfectly balanced, arms are wonderful. Nothing like what Gillian Murphy does in the video here on youtube.

[@AaronRollander]

I thinks she's the greatest ballerina as the black swan ❤

[@user-ru8vy1uz7c]

Браво блестяще танцуют большие мастера

[@michelinearthebise2783]

Prima assoluta.

[@susanbaskerville5239]

beautiful Miss Lopatkina BRAVA!!!!!

[@djboo7779]

Her odile attitude is so poised yet so feisty. Love it.

[@marianakavanagh1618]

THE BEST SWAN!

[@sugarplumcherry6]

so far, she's the only person who's really made me believe that her arms could be wings...

[@user-ms8qh2qm9y]

なんて美しい.....ターンの正確性が素晴らしい。あのプリエでなぜあんなに何回も綺麗に回れるのか。

[@jayzcc83]

i can't take my eyes off her...she is perfect!!!

[@adballet]

Please do not loose faith in all US Citizens. I think Lopaktina is GOURGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL, UNBELIEVABLE ARMS AND LINES, BEST OF THE BEST.

[@dancingwithoutwords]

She shows sharper, agile movements from Odile's character. Odile still is a swan inside...I can not understand how there's people who compares ballet dancers from the past with comtemporary, there are completely different worlds...

[@iliovass]

She is really good! Hope to see her perform someday

[@chandrankaiveli]

amazing performance

[@sugarplumcherry6]

i agree... but i also like uliana lopatkina's port de bras as well. makarova is one of my favorite dancers. she was one of the first people to inspire me as a child.

[@garnetpasion]

uliana lopatkina is the one who makes me love swan lake

[@user-rk5fd3hx2h]

Ну до чего же она хороша! Какая грация! Не поддпется описанию. Просто само совершенство!

[@gtfojuliaaa]

Her arms are amazing!

[@makeupfanpire]

Lopatikina is my favorit swan EVER!!!!!! she's amaizing!! so confident,and pretty!! she dances so perfetc!! the fouettes are absoluty amaizng!!

[@manfredfinch]

best since pliesetskaya! Lopatkina owns this role!

[@soyuncatacol]

Even though I don't like the break in the music after the foutees, I think they're both great. I love how she moves her arms when she's lifted at the end.

[@GawkyBallerina]

@Juventina1005 Haha yeah, It makes me feel better too. I'm 5'9", so it's great to see someone as tall as Lopatkina dance so beautifully.

[@rinanir._.2525]

もう非の打ち所が全くない全てが完璧。思わず「ブラボー！！」って叫んだわ

[@rinanir._.2525]

オディールのVa 1:45

[@ballerinaballet2332]

Ahhhhhh those fouettes

[@sander075]

I bought the DVD and was very excited .. but when I watched it I was a bit disapointed; the original Kirov style is still there, but it seems the magic has gone away.. but maybe it's just me :-) Anyway, they will perform next week in Amsterdam and I will see Don Quichotte and the Sleeping Beauty .. I hope 'the magic of the Kirov ballet' will be there again.

[@drdancerlisa]

They're funny the way they stop for a bow in the middle of the coda, thereby completely killing the momentum and the excitement of the score and the dance. Weird.

[@casshews]

Yah.

[@kurichka]

I felt uneasy with the orchestration, it was somewhat different from other versions... and I didn't like how they stopped the music after the fouettes, it cut too much the scene. Uliana=excelency. I love her dancing.

[@louizad27]

Why is everybody fighting over who is the better dancer?! If you dance you'll see the beauty in both of them - the reason there are more than just one set of company dancers in the world is for there to be variation! If you think one thing is more difficult, ok, however they are both extremely talented dancers and unless you consider youself on their niveau, stop judging and start appreciating!

[@Akewataru133]

Out of all the Odile variations I've seen love her! She is always spot on with the music and as a musician I am very keen to that aspect. I doesn't matter how good you are, dancer or musician, if you can't keep up to the music, your performance will seem kind of...off?

[@100sdaisy]

Incredible!!

[@opheliawolf]

omg! I think I even counted 35? maybe I'm just bad at counting lol very impressive though

[@ruicleroi]

artist...she's got personality and he's very long and elegant

[@Mary-fi3dg]

goals

[@jayendepersil6607]

Ah! Perfection in black feathers!

[@momiamok-v4y]

Потрясающая техника и замечательная трактовка танца

[@glade7044]

Нет, это не руки, это Крылья

[@sosaisho3051]

beautiful.

[@carmetablo]

Que maravilla de xica, es fantastica!!!

[@marioescalante4401]

I think this is the same ballerina where she gives this quick, devilish smile to the audience before the prince lifts her up, which was such a nice touch! It's as if she's trying to say, "I've got him!" Can't seem to find that clip, though.

[@Flaflaronio]

Best port de bras out there.

[@eroscoe92]

maisumnomundo, i agree. watch this version, the girl is crazy talented. double pirouette en dehors followed by a tripple attitude pirouette.

[@Sacto1654]

I don't think we should compare the legendary Maya Plisetskaya with the Ulyana Lopatkina of today, since their dancing styles are so distinct different. Plisetskaya emphasizes more "acting" skills, something she picked up from Galina Ulanova, the other great Soviet-era ballerina. In contrast, Lopatkina demonstrates more in the way of technical skill, especially if you look at her 2006 Swan Lake performance on DVD.

[@loulie1997]

She's perfect! Lopatikina is the next Pavlova!

[@Ecoman365]

BRAVO!

[@axeldanielgarcia7302]

ella es hermosa!!

[@costalito01]

Exquisite.

[@deenagara9151]

She performs way better than Svetlana Zakharova!!

[@erickraus9306]

its in St. Peterburg, and our audiences do not applaud as for the circus! She is beloved and admired as no serious artist would ever be in America

[@penelope186]

@sugarplumcherry6 I agree!!! I

[@MargaretGeorgila]

Юлианна Лопаткина-русская танцора!!

[@moncherrin]

if u count she does 34 :))))

[@SantaBaby2121]

all are amazing dancers.... i tried the fouettes(not on pointe) but i couldnt do it flat.... i got dizzy

[@KamikazeEmo1331]

I dont have a preference. Frankly if they have the skill to dance so beautifully then I have to give them credit for it.

[@yonjooheero]

So CLEAN and beautiful. Uliana, you're amazing! :D The prince wasn't that amazing though. T_T

[@marianakavanagh1618]

HER EXPRESSION!

[@marcosbarzagli]

❤❤❤❤

[@irinaaru]

Turning starts at 5:07

[@ThatEmoKidd00]

I must not count the fouettes correctly because evrytime I attempt to count 32 fouettes I end up counting 25 or something

[@TsubasaDreams]

The Vaganova/Russian technique has the dancers extend a la seconde instead of fourth position front like in the Cechetti method.

[@NataliaTsynaeva_]

Только Ульяна заставляет моё сердце замирать

[@jordanlovelace5499]

I love uliana but when most Russian ballerinas do fouettes the supported leg is turned in

[@Theyoats]

Perfect partner Danila!

[@azoj777]

Swan Lake is a ballet IN "Black Swan."

[@thecurledfreckle]

Ahhh, Danila...so delectable!!

[@dancingstorm]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Uliana Lopatkina deserved so much more than such a sloppy prince.

[@Sapphonouveau]

dancingstorm I heartily concur (thought it was just me being mean, but yes, he is very sloppy in comparison and a not particularly good actor either tb frank)

[@dancingstorm]

Sapphonouveau If you've seen the version with Gillian Murphy, the prince (Ángel Corella) is not only a much better dancer, he's a better actor, too.

[@casshews]

Yes, she needs Angel Corella.

[@silena197]

Yami she’ll probably a head taller than angel corella en pointe 😂

[@camstarz20123]

:O Excuisitely perfect and beautiful

[@kelly913]

her arms just go on forever

[@dancr4life444]

you try doing 32 fouettes on pointe shoes!!! It's harder than it looks!!

[@Alana00vampire00]

She's a prima ballerina, and you're not. So don't try to point out mistakes that don't exist

[@patricia_armstrong]

@wigglebells uh actually the first black swan to perform the 32 fouette count did 32 of them not just 32 musically wise but 32 being able to be counted

[@sweetpoison94]

some of her turns are abit slanted, but nevertheless great job. she looks amazing. oh wow does she even have any idea that she did that many fouettes. wowow. it's great:)

[@vanadisnext]

Great!!!

[@Freakeh411]

Her legs, they are so looong! They are endless O.O