Subscribe: @TheBunduBallerina The Mariinsky Ballet currently has 8 Male Principal Dancers & only 6 Female Principal Dancers. This means that there may soon be 2 promotions. We can only speculate which of these 11 wonderful Female First Soloists will be promoted next. In this video the dancers perform variations from the following ballets:
Nadezhda Batoeva - Sylvia 0:10
Maria Ilyushkina - Lilac Fairy, Sleeping Beauty 2:09
Maria Khoreva - Paquita Act I 3:33
Anastasia Kolegova - Russkaya Variation, Swan Lake (Unfortunately, the dance was not filmed to the end) 5:05
Anastasia Matvienko - Gamzatti, La Bayadere 7:35
May Nagahisa - Paquita Act III 8:56
Yekaterina Osmolkina - Talisman 11:23
Renata Shakirova - Laurencia (VBA Graduation Performance) 12:55
Kristina Shapran - Medora, Le Corsaire 14:07
Maria Shirinkina - Aurora, Sleeping Beauty 15:10
Elena Yevseyeva - Don Quixote 17:16
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