#Svetlana efremova

[kellymadigan]

Svetlana Efremova on set of FOR ALL MANKIND with Wrenn Schmidt & Piotr Adamczyk

[girlgoneangsty]

One step closer to a Margo\Irina vid, yay. Am I the only one who hopes for smth bwtween these two still?

[lasaraconor]

[thefrakkintrinity15]

“I’ve known you for a long time, Margo” 👀

[tv-moments]

For All Mankind

Season 4, “House Divided”

Director: Dan Liu

DoP: Karl Walter Lindenlaub

[moocowmoocow]

For All Mankind rewatch

Irina Morozova in 4x04 "House Divided"

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh it's Irina from For All Mankind

[helmstone]

For All Mankind season 4 trailer

For All Mankind season 4 trailer

Apple TV+ has released a trailer for season 4 of For All Mankind (note to self — get on with season 2 already!) focussed on Helios recruitment. Here’s the summary text accompanying it: Why shoot for the moon when you can shoot for Mars? Start your future at Helios. For All Mankind returns November 10 Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since Season 3, Happy Valley has rapidly…

[girlgoneangsty]

Given how the new country leader is all against being cozy with the west, I'm impressed with how sure Irina is she can keep Margo safe.

For All Mankind | 3x03 vs 4x03

[tikitania]

Nutcracker Season!

Nutcracker season can elicit an array of feelings. Some love it, some hate it. I was falling into the indifferent category. I don't live in a major city, so the month long onslaught of ballet school-civic rep level productions has me a bit bummed out…and ready to tune it all out. AND THEN…I stumbled upon this very interesting panel discussion lead by ballet critic, Alastair McCauley, comparing the original Lev Ivanov Sugarplum PDD to the Balanchine version, getting into the nitty gritty of the score and the choreographic language that can be found in both versions, pointing out the various ways in which Balanchine quoted Ivanov. This is so interesting and only available online until Dec. 17, so hurry and watch it while you can. Who knew about the original version of the Sugar Plum sliding across the stage on point on a hidden stage tracking device?! If you do anything, watch this first video with the panel talk and demonstrations. The videos I included after that are just if you want to get obsessive like I did to dig deeper. Panelists: Suki Schorer, Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Jonathan Stafford. (Watching Suki coach is worth watching!) NYCB Dancers: Chun Wai Chan, Ashley Hod (Balanchine version) & Anthony Huxley, Emma Von Enck (Ivanov Version)

MacCauley mentions the Fonteyn version a few times during this talk, so I found it for you. The tempo is certainly much faster, and it really makes you appreciate Fonteyn's speed! But I actually prefer the slower tempo, which allows the music to really soar. But I also wondered if it was the audio quality of this historic recording is simply too compressed and tinny to do it justice.

The Mariinsky dances the Vasily Vaionen version of the Nutcracker, and I wanted to see how it compared to the Ivanov version. I really love the Mariinsky version. It's a departure from Ivanov, but still very classical and regal. PPD below with Baby Shakirova.

BONUS: If you want to watch the full Mariinsky Nutcracker, here's a 1994 recording with Larissa Lezhnina and Victor Baranov. And for some real fun going down the rabbit hole, this is an amazing Soviet black and white recording of the PDD with the late Svetlana Efremova (SHE IS AMAZING!) and Sergei Vikulov. Notice that the extra four cavaliers are not in this one, so the choreography is adjusted. I have a thing for soviet era black-and-white ballet films. Not to be overlooked, the Grigorivich version at the Bolshoi is worth mentioning. There are a few things that stood out to me. Its religiosity, for one. The PDD essentially starts with Masha and her prince praying together as if at a mass. And then, towards the end, are the huge lifts that end with an upside down ballerina (not my favorite pose…)

Interestingly, ABT's version by Ratmansky also incorporates the same big lift, but transitions into a spin. You can see it here, and it's a much smoother transition. Ignore the weird speed manipulation in this video. It can give you motion sickness.

AND….I found this POB version. The Nureyev choreography is horrible and Tsikaridze knows it. He can barely hold back his own laughter as how bad this performance is. When I watched this, my first thought is that Nureyev must have been a misogynist because the Sugar Plum/Clara choreography is so god awful that it seems like he's trying to humiliate ballerinas. Poor Myriam Ould-Braham, she does her best to dignify the choreography with her impeccable technique, but there is no saving this. Another thing that bothers me is that the couple are hardly dancing together, it's like a bad ballet class where they dance side to side. I hope this version soon disappears forever. Watch at your own risk. It made my blood boil.

Okay, that's it for a while. I may go see the Houston Ballet's Nutcracker if I have time. But I will mostly be focused on taking time off with the family, puttering in the garden, and catching up on my ever-expanding to-do list. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!

[freezegirl]

alice zreibac (svetlana efremova) is a former art gallery owner, a former competitive figure skater and khione's coach. she was once rescued by an arachnid themed hero from a mugging which is something she brings up every so often because it's the closest she'll ever get to heroes of any kind, seeing as she herself doesn't have any powers. while she doesn't own the maxville ice arena, she does consider the ice rink to be 'hers' and hates any and all distractions for her skaters, including but not limited to friends, family members and significant others. khione's friends, especially, are on alice's shit list because they are a force of distraction and her 'golden goose' (which is what she calls khione, and yes, goose comes from goossens, her last name) should never, ever be distracted so she can actually make it to the very top. alice is strict but fair: if she sees potential in you, you'd better make damn sure you live up to it and put in the work because she has no time for wishy-washy people who cannot commit.

[girlgoneangsty]

So sad the season comes to an end and I won't get more of these two.

[anyakai]

I made a choice once too. Long time ago. I was training for the Olympics in Russia when I met her. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. We were born at the wrong time. Before the parades and... rainbow flags. If we were caught, they would never let me skate again. So I made the choice. I choose skating... over my Tatiana. I thought, you know, maybe later, after the Olympics, I can find her. I can tell her the truth. But I waited too long. She got married. To be safe. And I only saw her one more time. So I wear the long face for one week, and I just moved on. I skate. I married a man. I moved to US. I coach. I buried man. But still, even today... I see her everywhere. Forty years... since our goodbye, but if she will walk through this door... I would know her.

[420am-wolftrap]

Mit einer Erinnerung zu leben ist besser als enttäuscht zu werden.

[cinemablind]

Svetlana Efremova (The Americans) has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming fourth season of Apple TV+’s space drama series For All Mankind.

[moocowmoocow]