Olesya Novikova’s extraordinary thirty entrechat-quatre en pointe in Raymonda
The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets had never before been performed by the La Scala ballet until last night. The La Scala première marks the most faithful version of Raymonda yet to the original, which met with triumphant success in St Petersburg in 1898.
In Sergei Vikharev’s newly reconstructed version, Mariinsky ballerina Olesya Novikova performed Raymonda’s Act II variation with an extraordinary series of thirty entrechat-quatre en pointe!
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[..YouTube..] @Buondelmonte123 – I’m sorry my dear but you have no idea what you are talking about. The notation is read accurately. Just because you are not personally familiar with “Vikharev’s provenance for his ‘authenticity'” doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Do you think he just made the whole thing up? Are you bloody mad?!?
[..YouTube..] – I’m sorry my dear but you have no idea what you are talking about. The notation is read accurately. Just because you are not personally familiar with “Vikharev’s provenance for his ‘authenticity'” doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Do you think he just made the whole thing up? Are you bloody mad?!?
– I’m sorry my dear but you have no idea what you are talking about. The notation is read accurately. Just because you are not personally familiar with “Vikharev’s provenance for his ‘authenticity'” doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Do you think he just made the whole thing up? Are you bloody mad?!?
[..YouTube..] Wow! How is she doing this??? I didn’t even know that it was possible to do entrechats 4 on pointe shoes. And it looks so much easy for her. Her arms are so fluid and she is always smiling! That was amazing!!!
Wow! How is she doing this??? I didn’t even know that it was possible to do entrechats 4 on pointe shoes. And it looks so much easy for her. Her arms are so fluid and she is always smiling! That was amazing!!!
[..YouTube..] “Brava!”
“Brava!”
[..YouTube..] Amazing!! 😀
Amazing!! 😀
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Novikova is a good choice. Nice performance.
Of course rhey can be done, you just have to land on pointe after the entrechats. Irina Kolpakova also did them in the 1980 film and a few other clips.
Of course it’s not completely impossible, but that’s not so easy. I already find changements on pointe shoes really hard, so I can’t imagine how much these hurt.
Novikova is so strong performer and has such a good smile.
Wow, I could tell that her feet were killing her after that section.
Olesia Novikova, always a delight to watch!
that is just insane! I love this ballerina!