#baby koshkareyva

[tikitania]

the bronze horseman is based on the book (depicting the 1824 great flood in st petersburg and also some deeper literary meanings etc etc i'm not very literate tbh).

also if you go watch the recording that's on youtube, you'll see maria koshkareva, sofia valiullina and yaroslavna kuprina as three out of four of the children's roles - I think they're first-years in it :) im always so amazed to see current grads being small children in HD video on youtube, i'm not used to being older than professional ballet soloists lol

OMG! They are babies! I definitely saw Koshkaryova and Valiullina, but not sure if I could identify Kuprina. For a second, I thought I saw Olga Morgulets — the child (now adult) featured in the documentary about Vaganova aspirants along with Anna Sharova.

I did a quick scrub through the video — and I'm intrigued by this ballet, but was caught off guard by the man in blackface. Why??!??! Now I'm going go back and read more about this ballet, the literary references, etc. I did see that it was inspired by a Pushkin poem of the same name. Interestingly, it was revived for the Mariinsky stage by Yuri Smeklov, who is retiring in a couple of days. He also re-constructed Paquita, and I wonder if he will devote more of his time to restringing the classics for he Mariinsky or choreographing more contemporary projects, which he just did with Daria Ionova. Either way, I wish him luck!