Different Ballet Schools Around the World! Paris Opera, ,Vaganova...
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Hello Everyone,
Today is a super fun video! Looking at all the techniques in the most renowned schools.
Paris Opera, La Scala, Vaganova and SAB.
Sadly, I couldn't include RBS as there's no footage online!
Each school is very different and produces different dancers. While we may all prefer some techniques more than others, each school has mastered its system of producing dancers who look a certain way stylistically for generation after generation.
A very interesting video to make :-)
Enjoy, and please leave your comments below!
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About Me
Hello everyone! my names Isabella.
I am the first British graduate of the Vaganova ballet academy in Saint Petersburg Russia. I was a soloist working with the Mikhailovsky Ballet and Eifman ballet.
Now I live in London as a full time coach
Here, on my channel I am sharing my passion with you all about the Vaganova technique amongst many other things related to ballet we all love.
It's a hard industry so I am here to help with my insights and knowledge to make it a little easier for you all, as well as to hopefully entertain you with my content.
Thank you for watching!
The Vaganova school's emphasis on the coordination of head and arms and feet and the use of the epaulement produces a complete dancer with wonderful artistic expression.
Very nice comparisons. I would love to see a later video with Bournonville method alongside something different, as it is such a unique style. I was primarily trained in RAD and I would say the RAD, French/Legat, and Italian/Cecchetti all teach rather square alignment and more contained arms than other schools. It can look rigid but also it is very simple and straightforward to learn. I also studied Vaganova, and I love the way it looks and the freedom and expressiveness of the upper body. I will say it allows for more leeway in alignment and sometimes that can be difficult to learn, so that one is not too square but also not too open or distorted. I appreciate the way dancers from any European school are able to act and look natural in the background (peasants etc.) which is not something you see consistently in American dancers. Their delivery is often a little flat or unevenly dramatic. I also think European dancers, especially Russian, usually learn music theory, and I feel this gives them a better understanding of the music and how to interpret it. I think it would probably also allow them to learn choreography quickly, since they would be able to read and remember music better.
I totally agree with you! The Bournonville style makes wonderful male dancers, I think. Alban Lendorf is my favorite ❤️
do you think you could at some point also address the cuban style of training? It seems to me that it's marketed as a mixture of all of the schools (considering it's later development I could see how thats true) but there still seems to be certain things setting them apart. Pirouettes for example, no one turns like the cubans, and I'm just curious because it's also somewhat of a lesser used/known technique, but we still see so many principals at the top companies who've trained under cuban instructors or instructors trained under that syllabus.
Could you also do a video on the Cecchetti method? It’s very similar to these styles and many have been based off of it like ABT.
Cecchetti trained Agrippa Vaganova amd many of their adages are based on his work..
I love this video! Getting a dancer from each style doing the same combo would be thrilling to watch! I watch Kathryn Morgan’s videos religiously so when you got to the SAB portion I was thinking about her the whole time and was saying things like “Yep, Katie said that” 😂. It would also be cool to see a video of you and a few other friends or UA-camrs from different styles doing each other’s styles 😄
I was trained in RAD in middle through high school and did a little bit of ballet in college but I can’t confidently say which style I did to save my life (I didn’t embrace ballet as much then like I do now, I shied away from it because it’s not the genre I’m most comfortable in) but, if I had to guess it was probably closer to Balanchine more than anything, which also happens to be my favorite style because it’s bordering neoclassical ballet which I absolutely love because it’s closer to modern dance (the genre I’m most comfortable with 😂)
My favorite style is Vaganova because it seems to generate the most coordination throughout the dancer's body, plus the arms are mesmerizing. My least favorite is Balanchine, unfortunately, because although the dancers are very fast and tricky, sometimes they compromise other things for that speed, most notably arm.
I agree with you. I think the Balanchine style sometimes look sloppy in the corps, because it’s too fast to give the dancers a chance to dance in sync.
Love this video so much! Maybe a part 2 talking about ABT curriculum, RAD, Royal Ballet etc?!
Wow, wasn’t too familiar with the La Scala school but they blew me away here. Their recent boys exam was incredible too.
I love the Vaganova style for the girls most, but the Bournonville style for the boys! I would love to learn more about the Bournonville school. My favorite male dancer is Alban Lendorf ❤
I could watch your commentary on dancing all day!!!!!!
I'm an adult that started ballet 6 years ago and have been trained in the Vaganova style. Whenever I try to follow along a class by a ballerina from a different school, it's like trying to speak a different language for me. I can't imagine myself trying on a different style, I love the expressive upper body and attention to arm and hands too much. Very useful if your extentions are not great, like mine 😂 All the while, as a spectator I appreciate all styles and schools, but my favourite would be La Scala for the freedom and lightness ❤
Hello Isabella! I saw last year's exam from La Scala and i noticed that the girls did the entire class on pointe (barre too) and i would like to hear tour thoughts on that topic! I absolutely love your videos,thank you very much!
Interesting!! They were on flat here, so I wonder if that was the grad class you watched? If you have a link, send it to me! I think I would feel similar to what I mentioned with the SAB girls. There’s pros and cons to it ❤
Here is the link. Eventually is from 2022 exam.
ua-cam.com/video/mW_pUWzk2KI/v-deo.htmlsi=xnbIl-tjCs5JcjIz
Also i would love to see a video comparing the Vaganova and the Bolshoi technic!
Thank tou very much for answering!
ua-cam.com/video/bhBJ8k8iZHI/v-deo.htmlsi=Y1bN5yvI-OrU416B
Hello! This is the 2024 Exam
ua-cam.com/video/bhBJ8k8iZHI/v-deo.htmlsi=Y1bN5yvI-OrU416B
Hello!! This is the 2024 Alla Scala exam
Those girls though don't train the whole time only in pointe shoes like SAB students would do. It might be only for graduation exam class. I know for sure they do the regular build up on flats and of course separate pointe class. La scala is based on Russian style but from there developed its own style.
Thank you so much for this, Isabella! I've been looking forward to hearing your thoughts on different styles ❤xx
You’re so welcome! ❤
I'd love to see you succeed with your social media presence. You are a master at ballet as well as a master at imparting knowledge in a wonderful way . Have you thought about doing any live events on UA-cam to boost viewership?
Please include Cuban style principles, love your vids as always ❤❤❤❤
Flowing elegance
Thank you for this video, it was very interesting to see the comparison between schools! I just wanted to say that if you’re looking for Balanchine class videos, the JKO school, which is the school of American ballet theater, has many class/ exam videos posted on UA-cam.
You’re so welcome!! ❤😊
I am studying full time in the UK and one of my teachers trained at Paris Opera, the other trained at La Scala and then ABT, and we also have a teacher that trained at the Royal Ballet. While this is nice we are training to be versatile, I agree with you that it’s best to train mostly with one style to perfect it!
So interesting that
Balanchine was Russian and trained in the Russian style although not too sure if the Vaganova system was in place when he trained . But as you say they could t be further apart now 😂 I really agree with you about the lessons , very strange , the heel not on the floor in plié , not using the head , the rather claw like Hand and yet when you see the company on stage they are absolutely AMAZING ! It would be very interesting the same videos about the boys work , what and how the focus is very different . Thank you 🙏
Hi Everyone! Just to let you know. My mic had an issue so the sound isn’t how I would like it. My voice comes out of just one headphone so please listen without headphones or make sure you have two headphones in. Thanks so much for your understanding ❤
Also please the vienna opera ballet 😊
My personal favorite will always be Balanchine because that is how I was trained and it fit my body. I also think that many outside the US look down on Balanchine training because the focus was to train dancers for his choreography. While I do like the Russian dancers, I often think they look too much the same and lack personality (there are obvious standouts like Lopatkina and Krishneva but so many just look interchangeable). From the classes, I thought the La Scala dancers were the standouts. They had more fluid lines than the others.
I enjoy the Balanchine style for that reason too, sure it doesn’t always translate well to the ultra-classical ballets but a lot of non-US companies don’t do Balanchine works much justice either. Their corps work isn’t nearly as crystal clear as the Russians but I think that’s the price you pay for more individuality between the dancers.
It would be interesting to compare the Asian schools which have been graduating some of the world top ballet dancers, say Beijing Academy of Dance, K-Arts, and the Japanese schools
Is no one else having problem with sound? Had it with the last video as well. I can put it on captions but not the same as listening to a voice. I can hear the background music though and, yes, the sound is full volume. Ooh, I can hear the teacher in the class. Yeah 🩰🩰🩰🩰👵🇦🇺
Im listening with earphones in and Isabella's voice is coming through one ear and background music through the other. Maybe a different listening device/no device at all might work better for you?
Yes sorry my voice is just through one ear in this video- not something I could fox post production. It’s best to Lauren without headphones for this one if you can 🤍 I had a new mic that for some reason cancelled out one side. Sorry for the trouble!
Is that Aurelie Dupont at 5:57?
I noticed that too. I think she is Aurelie Dupont.
私も、そう思いました。
As an American, I just don’t get the SAB style. It comes across so robotic and, dare I say, unartistic with very little payoff in terms of producing world class dancers. The Vaganova method has just proven to be the superior technique time and time again for literally hundreds of years. I could EASILY name dozens and dozens of star dancers off the top of my head who have come from either the Vaganova and/or Bolshoi academies. I’d be hard pressed to name even 5 star dancers produced by SAB.
Isabella, it seems your video audio is not working properly. I can't here you speak, only the background music.
Hey there! Sadly it plays only through one ear. This was something that only came to light post production and not something I could fix! It won’t happen again but if you’re listening with one ear that might be why x
Why didn't you show the Royal Academy of Dance? Isn't that one of the major schools of ballet?
Hello 🙂
Royal Academy of Dance is one school and The Royal Ballet School is another
Just speculation on my part but it’s probably because Isabella went to the Royal Ballet School and already has a few videos on the differences between the technique at RBS & Vaganova. I think it’s also more difficult to find footage of high level RAD exams.
Thanks! That helps. I've studied RAD and Vagonova and appreciate both methods.
I just don’t like Balanchine 🙈