Bolshoi Future Prima Ballerina - Alena Kovaleva in Ballet Excerpts 2014 - 2021

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  • Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
  • Subscribe: ‪@TheBunduBallerina‬ The very gifted Leading Soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet in excerpts from her student years at the Vaganova Academy to present videos of her at the Bolshoi Ballet. Please note that the actual date of Paquita variation 11 at 13:08 is actually from 2014 when Alena was 15 & the next Paquita variation's date is 2018. Many thanks to the uploaders of the following videos:
    Raymonda Act 1 Dream Variation:
    • Video
    Medora (Vaganova Academy) 2015:
    • Alena Kovaleva Variati...
    Prix de Lausanne 2016:
    • Alena Kovaleva - 2016 ...
    Raymonda Act 3 Variation 2016:
    • Алёна Ковалёва Раймонд...
    Raymonda Act 2 Variation 2017:
    • РАЙМОНДА. Алена КОВАЛЕ...
    Paquita Variation No. 11 (actual date is 2014 not 2018):
    • Alena Kovaleva Paquit...
    Bayadere Act 1 Excerpt 2018:
    • Tissi- Kovaleva
    Bayadere 2021 Act 3:
    • Bayadere (Belyakov/Kov...
    Black Swan:
    • Artemy Belyakov and Al...
    Thanks to Alex Pankov for the thumbnail image.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 81

  • @dancingbluecrane2813
    @dancingbluecrane2813 3 роки тому +34

    I love this compilation. Thank you for showcasing her great promise and how she has reached her present impressive status at the Bolshoi. 💖👏

  • @margaretnoble4805
    @margaretnoble4805 3 роки тому +19

    What a lovely compilation of a very young artist. So beautiful, such long limbs, such potential. May she have an illustrious, injury free career.

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 3 роки тому +39

    I love the way the Russians applaud. They love their ballet. She’s very sweet 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🥰

  • @cynthiafletcher9845
    @cynthiafletcher9845 3 роки тому +14

    Great compilation!! She is really a beautiful young dancer with lovely lines. It was a pleasure to watch her perform. ♥♥♥

  • @williamdeng1870
    @williamdeng1870 3 роки тому +13

    Altona Kovalyova is an excellent ballerina, and her future is wonderful!

  • @DavidLeBlanc
    @DavidLeBlanc 3 роки тому +15

    Applause to you for putting this all together, Bundu Ballerina. Thank you.
    A commenter below said she lacks the technical skills to be in the Bolshoi Theater. I lack the knowledge to say if that comment is correct or not, but what struck me is her seeming maturity at such a young age. Very young, very mature.
    The way her arms seem to flow is like, wow!

    • @TheBunduBallerina
      @TheBunduBallerina  3 роки тому +4

      Thanks for your wonderful comments!

    • @olgaolivia3687
      @olgaolivia3687 2 роки тому +2

      Agree. He movements are perfect and graceful, she dances like a real professional, although she is still so young! Well done!

  • @candidacarino669
    @candidacarino669 3 роки тому +10

    She's young and beautiful! She's quite a talented ballet danseuse! And it's true "Alena Kovaleva's the Bolshoi prima everyone wants to see"!

  • @carmen9330
    @carmen9330 3 роки тому +14

    She is lovely. I saw her and Jacopo Tissi in Swan Lake in London, they made a wonderful, elegant young couple, with beautiful lines. Brava Alena!

  • @robertw5316
    @robertw5316 Рік тому +4

    The perfect ballerina.❤❤❤

  • @kl5589
    @kl5589 3 роки тому +22

    I am really enjoying these series of compilation vlogs of young dancers showing their evolution from academy level to professionals. Thanks so much for takihg the time and effort to do them - much appreciated! Would love to see one of Anastasia Smirnova a Vaganova graduate of 2020 now doing so well at the Mikhailovsky and one of my favourites Daria Ionova at Vaganova graduate now at the Marinsky.

    • @TheBunduBallerina
      @TheBunduBallerina  3 роки тому +3

      Thanks for your wonderful comment and ideas! I'll definitely use them :)

    • @joanaduartebernardes4030
      @joanaduartebernardes4030 2 роки тому +1

      Karen L totally agree with you about Daria Ionova. I really hope she doesn't stay at the corps much longer.

    • @cherryleung9236
      @cherryleung9236 2 роки тому +1

      @@joanaduartebernardes4030 she is a coryphee now

    • @sheeniebeanie2597
      @sheeniebeanie2597 Рік тому

      @@joanaduartebernardes4030 Daria is a stunning young lady! Her eyes are so blue and big! I hear she is also very funny and nice. I hope that her strength and technique improves enough to become a second soloist soon!

  • @suz5373
    @suz5373 2 роки тому +9

    Everything she does has meaning, she is a true artist.

  • @asclepius3117
    @asclepius3117 3 роки тому +24

    I know. Isn't she amazing??!! If I recall, she did not make finals at Prix de Lausanne which just goes to show you!!! Maybe she was injured. Well-deserved promotions at Bolshoi. Beautiful dancer, gorgeous lines, such arm span, so tall.

    • @nataschacharliecamen
      @nataschacharliecamen 3 роки тому +7

      She is about 179cm and for the Marijinsky was to tall.......good for the Bolshoi!!!!!!

    • @normamimosa5991
      @normamimosa5991 2 роки тому +2

      I don't think it would have had anything to do with an injury. In my view, one has to consider all the RAD-type judges, who were never well known primas -- or primas at all -- at that competition. Another consideration is that many of these Western circuit competition winners end up not making it to the top.

    • @asclepius3117
      @asclepius3117 2 роки тому +1

      @@normamimosa5991 Interesting point. I was surprised that she did not make the finals based on her performance,

  • @virgilobsene4310
    @virgilobsene4310 2 роки тому +7

    I love Alena. She is an amazing dancer..

  • @JayChoi1118
    @JayChoi1118 3 роки тому +15

    She was born to be a ballerina. A star is born.

  • @ellest1485
    @ellest1485 3 роки тому +24

    It seems to me that Alena was on the pick of her technique while she was in Vaganova Academy. No improvement in the recent performances. She is very good, but without hard work on technique every day it is not possible to improve artistry that makes ballerinas special. Thank you for the nice presentation.

    • @kathymyers7279
      @kathymyers7279 2 роки тому

      Wow! I don’t know much about her technique but anyone can tell sh s got something special. (You said that though.) Raymond’s seemed to really drag .

  • @erincowan5665
    @erincowan5665 3 роки тому +12

    She is a star.

  • @robertw5316
    @robertw5316 Рік тому +2

    I thought the tu tu worn in 'Paquita Variation 2019' was particularly lovely.

  • @kathymyers7279
    @kathymyers7279 2 роки тому +5

    There’s something so different about her!

  • @speteydog2260
    @speteydog2260 3 роки тому +5

    The Gamzetti costume was gorgeous. The ballerina is too. Wonderful …

  • @tomcooper3286
    @tomcooper3286 3 роки тому +15

    She graduated aged 17!! 😍(I thought when they added on an extra year it was 18 so that's amazing) - but omg that would be like me graduating next year😅

    • @gretahassock8914
      @gretahassock8914 3 роки тому +1

      Don't how she didn't reach the finals of the competition in Switzerland but like everything else it's sometimes who u know

  • @petrakrause9118
    @petrakrause9118 3 роки тому +7

    Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @VaganovaBlog
    @VaganovaBlog 3 роки тому +12

    She's so beautiful!

  • @feliciacoffey6832
    @feliciacoffey6832 Рік тому +4

    The beauty of her long lines and lovely arms is hypnotic, but in the Paquita variations she's not at her best at all.

  • @galynagerasymenko577
    @galynagerasymenko577 2 роки тому +6

    Красиво! Из-за роста - амплитудная линия!!! Законченные позы! Внешность! Надеюсь - карьера продолжается!

  • @victoriagibson411
    @victoriagibson411 2 роки тому +6

    She is the most Beautiful Creature!

  • @sheeniebeanie2597
    @sheeniebeanie2597 Рік тому +3

    She does very nice work and I like her graceful arms and long legs. There is something that I do not enjoy about her dancing--maybe her height? i have always found extremely talldancers to be a little bit awkward but in a way that I cannot put my hand on. Maybe have such a long frame, it is harder to maneuver and the movements just look more laborious to me. I think Bolshoi is obsessed with tall dancers as of late which I do not understand very well. I do not know... I am waiting for the next Bolshoi ballet star. Evgenia and Sveta and Ekaterina are still performing. Undoubtedly, whoever it is, will probably come from training at the Vagonava Ballet Academy (I do not find BBA graduates to be as good as VBA graduates nowadays), but I do not think it is Ms. Kovaleva. I must pay more attention!

  • @emitch9213
    @emitch9213 3 роки тому +7

    Lovely! Best wishes!

  • @swampwitchchic
    @swampwitchchic 3 роки тому +8

    Wow she is incredible! I dream of someday being as amazing as she is;)

  • @heeseokjung6792
    @heeseokjung6792 3 роки тому +9

    wow, it's amazing.❤️❤️
    I love all this, I really want to go to that academy.☹️❤️

    • @anastasialenkova-molchalin5874
      @anastasialenkova-molchalin5874 Рік тому

      If you have a background in ballet you can apply online if you’re the right age and talent. It’s expensive though (unless you’re a Russian citizen, then it’s all completely different)

  • @user-ru8vy1uz7c
    @user-ru8vy1uz7c 3 роки тому +3

    Bravo bravo bravo

  • @olivierPAOLATI1966
    @olivierPAOLATI1966 3 роки тому +6

    WONDERFULL I LOVE

  • @user-mw4cx4mi3j
    @user-mw4cx4mi3j 3 роки тому +4

    👏👏👏BRAVO👏👏👏🇯🇵

  • @user-vr4kb4il5b
    @user-vr4kb4il5b 3 роки тому +7

    Невероятно красивые
    Талантливые балерины
    Движение отработаны
    Люблю БАЛЕТ....

  • @user-of1pk9no7r
    @user-of1pk9no7r Рік тому +3

    Уникальная, и не только технически, разная во всех ролях и несмотря на молодость, убедительна актерски, изящна и выразительна. Партнёров бы ей, а то Тисси уехал, а Родькин не всегда с ней( удачи ей и здоровья, пусть радует нас долгие годы.

  • @patti_c5916
    @patti_c5916 3 роки тому +5

    Beautiful ❤

  • @martinetheillout5672
    @martinetheillout5672 3 роки тому +4

    Superbe danseuse

  • @Yoda1949
    @Yoda1949 3 роки тому +6

    Богиня!

  • @susannevollmer2347
    @susannevollmer2347 2 роки тому +3

    Kovaleva is a realy good one, but why not promoting Sevenard and Zhiganshina?

  • @fluffywuffykinsies
    @fluffywuffykinsies 2 роки тому +4

    Her arms😍

  • @user-jw9cp3ew8l
    @user-jw9cp3ew8l 3 роки тому +7

    🙌👏👏👏👏🤗🌺🌺🌺🙌

  • @Will-sx3rz
    @Will-sx3rz 3 роки тому +4

    7:08 what ballet it is??

    • @TheBunduBallerina
      @TheBunduBallerina  3 роки тому +2

      It is "Naina’s Magical Garden" from the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by Mikhail Glinka. Thanks for your interest.

    • @Will-sx3rz
      @Will-sx3rz 3 роки тому

      @@TheBunduBallerina thanks 😊😊😊

  • @elisaserrano1807
    @elisaserrano1807 2 роки тому +2

    Now she s prima :)

  • @PeacherLiz
    @PeacherLiz 2 роки тому +4

    She reminds me so much of Yulia Makhalina!

  • @zoyakotelnikova4716
    @zoyakotelnikova4716 3 роки тому +9

    Kovaleva is a beautiful ballerina. The problem of high growth is compensated by a very good classical training. I wonder, her dance is more technically accurate in the Vaganova Academy than in the theater. It is very strange. I hope it just seemed to me.

  • @kamaraada6339
    @kamaraada6339 2 роки тому +6

    she needs a proper teacher, to make her a perfect ballerina.

  • @c.v.1374
    @c.v.1374 3 роки тому +1

    20:02 2020

  • @casteretpollux
    @casteretpollux 3 роки тому +3

    Nah.

  • @passionballettopfru
    @passionballettopfru 3 роки тому +19

    Thank you very much! I'm sorry to say it but I don't want to see Ms. Kovalyova as prima ballerina in BT. She has not strong enough technical skills and she is simply to tall for the partners and the ensemble. She would be better in place in Ejfman ballet as she is better in dancing contemporary and that company has another height standards. IMHO.

    • @user-ld6hp2fm3r
      @user-ld6hp2fm3r 3 роки тому +4

      скоро и Большой превратится в Эйфмана, потому что русскую классику из него активно выдавливают.. так что, Алёна по вашим доводам может там совсем к месту оказаться..

    • @passionballettopfru
      @passionballettopfru 3 роки тому +1

      @@user-ld6hp2fm3r для этого надо не только репертуар менять, но и всю труппу. Если Вы внимательно читали мои доводы.

    • @user-ld6hp2fm3r
      @user-ld6hp2fm3r 3 роки тому +3

      @@passionballettopfru но первой части ваших доводов Большой уже начинает соответствовать.

    • @philipcondenzio5987
      @philipcondenzio5987 3 роки тому +1

      She would be an excellent fit for New York City Ballet! That's if she was able to transition to Balanchine style and technique.

    • @passionballettopfru
      @passionballettopfru 3 роки тому +2

      @@philipcondenzio5987 But she is not.

  • @user-jb5nz9yh8k
    @user-jb5nz9yh8k Рік тому +7

    Вариации она танцевать может, но партии главные не тянет. Ногу к голове поднять можно, но технично прыгать, делать занозки не может. Не артистична. Сама по себе танцует. Но Вазиеву это нравится. На приму не тянет.

    • @user-of1pk9no7r
      @user-of1pk9no7r Рік тому

      Она прекрасна в дуэтах, значит, вы ее не видели

  • @elisaserrano1807
    @elisaserrano1807 2 роки тому +3

    Now she s prima :)