#skorik

[tikitania]

Reading the Mariinsky Playbill Tea Leaves...

Now that the 242nd season of the Mariinsky has started under a new Artistic Director, Andrian Fadeev, I've been trying to glean clues as to what changes we can expect moving forward. Here are a few thoughts: The Good: The playbill with casting is released much earlier than before. (Yay!) The Interesting: Perhaps I'm reading in-between the lines, but I sense that the first month's casting signals a return to standards of emploi, and giving the primas instead of the first soloists prime evenings, which did not happen last season. For instance, Tereshkina gets the first Swan Lake, Skorik the second, and Iliushkina the third in a matinee. Those three are certainly the theater's current, most swan-like dancers whose lines exude lyricism. While Iliushkina is not a prima (yet) her casting in a matinee suggests that 1st soloists are relegated to matinees. Shakirova and Bateova are conspicuously not cast in either one...at least for now. This casting tracks with the very Russian balletomane critique that neither dancer is a swan, it's beyond their emploi. I'd place money that Shakirova is not given Odette-Odile for a long time. The Intriguing: Lopatkina's back after a notable absence since her retirement, allegedly lured by the new AD. As is Leonid Sarafanov. Having these two stars as coaches could be a real game-changer.

The Worrisome: I'm worried about their lack of repertoire and the creative void left behind after losing so many licenses. Creating home-grown masterpieces doesn't happen overnight. The Mariinsky sometimes feels like endless cycle of Swan Lake - Don Quixote and 40 Nutcrackers thrown in for good measure. If an audience is bored with this, think how the dancers must feel night after night.

The Drama: For a few months, I nervously wondered if Khoreva would ever appear on the playbill. I had imagined a Diva scenario where she refused to dance if she felt "downgraded" for being cast in the Prince's Friend's PDT and it lead to a battle with management. That concern took up a lot of free rent in my brain, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see her in Giselle on 10/17 paired with Konovalov. I cannot recall if they've danced together before. We'll see if there' any chemistry, which is noticeably absent from Khoreva's partnerships. I'm still one of the "yes, her technique is fire, but her dancing leaves me cold" factions of the balletomane world. In videos, she seems like a determined technician, but the poetry is not there…yet?

The Hopes: I'm hoping to see more men who have been stagnating in the corps given a chance to prove themselves. I've already noticed a few names that I hadn't seen before. I want to see Savalieva promoted after dancing more solo parts. I want more exciting debuts from Bulanova, Khiteeva, Bespalova, Chernavskaya, Kuznetsova, and Anushenkova. Here's to hoping…and wondering what other surprises might jump out this season.

[balletomaneblog]

Some of My Favorite Odiles!!

Here are some of my absolute favorite Odiles! I really had to stop myself from adding waayyy too many dancers to this list. Feel free to let me know other dancers that you guys love in this role!!

Ulyana Lopatkina

Viktoria Tereshkina

Svetlana Zakharova

Oxana Skorik

Gillian Murphy

Polina Semionova

[pamwmsn]

Oksana Skorik and Andrei Ermakov

[douvaqueenmarieheard]

Oksana Skorik performing "Gisele", Mariinsky Ballet

[thestreetdancer2023]

🇪🇸9 noviembre| 🇬🇧9 November

🇪🇸16 noviembre| 🇬🇧16 November 🇷🇺Не понимаю афишу мариинскую театральную на ноябрь...

🇪🇸No entiendo la programación de Mariinski en noviembre chicos (9 de noviembre: ¿un espectáculo de «La bella durmiente» intepretado por Mariinski y un espectáculo de «Romeo y Julieta» intepretado por Bolshoi el mismo día, en la misma hora? 16 noviembre: ¿3 espectáculos de «Giselle» al día? Qué pesado...) 🇬🇧I am not understanding Mariinsky´s November programming people... (9 November: a performance of «Sleeping Beauty» interpreted by Mariinsky and a performance «Romeo and Juliet» interpreted by Bolshoi same day, same hour?

16 November: 3 performances of «Giselle» in one day?)

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Ranked Ballet Performances

I've seen quite a few live shows and I have thoughts on all of them, but instead of sharing them, I'm just going to rank them from my favorite to least favorite:

La Bayadere: Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim

Giselle: Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg

La Bayadere: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Timur Askerov

Raymonda: Ekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev

Don Quixote: Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta

Le Corsaire: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Andrey Ermakov, Kimin Kim

Paquita: Viktoria Tereshkina and Timur Askerov

Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Marcelo Gomes

Raymonda: Oksana Skorik and Timur Askerov

Giselle: Skylar Brandt and Joo Won An

Don Quixote: Skylar Brandt and Herman Cornejo

Romeo and Juliet: Gillian Murphy and James Whiteside

The Nutcracker: Mariko Sasaki, William Bracewell, Isabella Gasparini, and James Hay

Giselle: Gillian Murphy and Thomas Forester

Swan Lake: Isabella Boylston and Alban Lendorf

Swan Lake: Devon Teuscher and Aran Bell

Giselle: Elizaveta Gogidze and Olekseii Kniazkov

Little Humpbacked Horse: Anastasia Kolegova and Maxim Zyuzin

Sleeping Beauty: Sarah Lane and Herman Cornejo

Paquita: Nadezhda Batoeva and Xander Parish

Harlequinade: Skylar Brandt and Daniil Simkin

Whipped Cream: Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin

Le Corsaire: Maria Khoreva, Konstantin Zverev, and Kimin Kim

Paquita: Maria Khoreva and Konstantin Zverev

I think I got them all lol. I didn't include non-ballet performances such as Bourne's Swan Lake, Alvin Ailey, and Riverdance.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Genia Rubin, Nu solarisé, c. 1942

Genia Rubin, Solarisation, Mlle Skorik, en pied, jambe, c. 1942

[felinefractious]

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Tatyana Skorik [Elite Planet]

🎨 Red Silver Spotted Tabby

[misspeppermint2003]

Vasily Petrovich Goloborodko from Servant of the People (Ukraine)

Yuri Ivanovich Chuyko from Servant of the People (Ukraine)

Sergei Viktorovich Mukhin from Servant of the People (Ukraine)

Ivan Andreevich Skorik from Servant of the People (Ukraine)

Dmitriy Vasilyevich Surikov from Servant of the People (Ukraine)

[tikitania]

I don't know how long ago your grand ballet tv show post was (where you said capitaine hasnt been on the playbill for a while), but he's back! he's listed for carmen suite on the 19th

I wrote that recently, but I had noticed a while ago that Even Capitaine was injured. I haven’t seen a lot of his dancing since he joined the company, but I do recall that Catherine Pollack wrote something interesting on IG about Skorik & Capitaine. She described them as transformative in Giselle, each elevating the others’ dance to a newly discovered realm, and she sensed the budding of a very special partnership. That had my attention…and then he disappeared due to injury. So, I’m hoping to watch Skorik & Capitaine together soon! Glad he’s back.

So that is the long response to your anon!

The only other current Mariinsky partnerships that seem to have that kind of special spark is Shakirova & Kim and Tereshkina & Belyakov.

Speaking of injury, Camilla Mazzi has been out for a couple of months now. I don’t believe she made any kind of announcement,but I saw her on crutches in someone’s New Year’s story — so I suspect she has a long rehab road ahead of her.

[balletomaneblog]

Favorite ballerinas in the Mariinsky?

My favorites at the Mariinsky overall are Novikova, Osmolkina, Skorik, and Shakirova. Also, Vishneva is obviously a legend, just not dancing much anymore. Finally, Ilyushkina and Khoreva are my favorite up-and-comers.

[ballet-symphonie]

When you said you could tell a dancer was from Perm/was educated there, is there a particular reason or association out there that made you say that?

The base in the Russian technique is the same but with a solid fusion of both Bolshoi and Mariinsky styles. After WWII the Perm school was stabilized under Mariinsky's soloist Ekaterina Geidenreich. Perm's most infamous teacher and artistic director Lyudmila Sakharova was a BBA grad.

I think what often stands out to me, is the remarkable cleanliness and pointed precision of technique, with both men and women.

Some videos featuring Perm Graduates:

Tatiana Melnik

Inna Bilash & Nikita Chetverikov

Oksana Skorik

[patricedumonde]

I saw on reddit russianballetvideos passed away. I remember watching his Vaganova videos and cringing at his hate towards Oksana Skorik. Rip.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bunheadsnark/comments/1ai0kjg/russianballetvideosmezentsevafan_passed_away/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Oh wow big news. RIP indeed. He was…. Something. Definitely was a big resource for all of us.

[leelooel]

Oksana Skorik , " Swan Lake", Mariinsky Theatre Ballet

[head-post]

Ukraine forced to develop new anti-UAV equipment every fortnight

The pace of technology transformation in the Ukraine-Russia war reaches a level requiring the development of new devices in the fight against Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) every fortnight. Ukrainian engineers from Kvertus go to the front lines and then return to the lab to design new technology that can counter adapted Russian UAVs, according to The Times.

The high speed of invention of new devices in warfare is paramount. In order to keep up with Russia’s rapidly evolving weapons developments, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have switched to hedgehog backpacks and high-tech ground robots in an attempt to stay ahead of Russia’s killer drones. Apart from that, the incoming weapons on the front line do not last long at all before the Russians figure out a way to disable them.

The $6,000 high-tech hedgehog backpacks, developed by Ukrainian technology company Kvertus and named for the number of antennas on it, will be used to neutralise Russian drones as its radiating wires act as a dome-shaped shield. The rollout of the new anti-drone equipment on the Ukrainian front line is expected to begin in four weeks’ time.

Besides the hedgehog backpacks, the company developed a $100,000 ground robot, an unmanned ground vehicle, also equipped with antennas, that can knock out UAVs by blocking their GPS signals. In addition, the robot can serve to transport soldiers from the battlefield, which will be especially useful for the wounded, as it has been previously reported that most soldiers who died on the battlefield were killed by drones.

In accordance with Kvertus’ commercial director Serhii Skorik, the concept came up after a Ukrainian commander informed him that troops were unable to transport wounded soldiers from the battlefield due to the large number of Russian drones circling in the sky, which are constantly in the process of detecting Ukrainian army soldiers. The antennas create an effective dome that blocks any signals at a distance of up to 300 metres. If the device is pointed in any one direction, it can disable a drone up to 9.6 kilometres away.

The speed at which devices are created in conflict is beyond comparison to other countries. For instance, in the United Kingdom, it takes years to develop drone and anti-drone technology. Engineers in Ukraine have to create new technology every few weeks to keep up with Russia’s pace of developing new weapons, as the latter greatly excels at creating new weapons when previous ones become obsolete, Skorik said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey admits that the speed of invention of new weapons and “reinvention” seems impossible enough for a British department with a notorious reputation for delayed and over-funded defence projects. General Roland Walker urged a review of British defence that should lead to a reorganisation of the procurement system.

Read more HERE

[melmothblog]

As requested, I’m going to address Oksana Skorik’s post from a few days ago, which was largely addressed to Gergiev. It basically boils down to the following points:

Oksana requested that Gergiev provides some sort of clarity regarding the company’s future, especially in terms of leave;

She said that dancers with children would like to leave the city and she personally wants to go to Crimea, but the company is technically still active;

This means that dancers, especially the corps, are in a terrible position where they can’t rest but are also unable to train without access to space and equipment;

The dancers were apparently informed that a tour is coming up soon;

She noted that three dancers are currently allowed to train in the studios at a time, though, according to Skorik, the studios can easily accommodate 15 dancers without breaking social distancing rules;

She goes on to say that only the orchestra (which is Gergiev’s main priority according to Skorik) have work, while everyone else is up in the air.

Plenty of people praised Oksana for speaking up in the comments, though Svetlana Zakharova questioned why these questions were raised on social media rather than directly with the management:

“Oksana, was there no opportunity to question the management directly? It’s so strange to read this post! They’re saying that you guys have been let go on a break ages ago.”

To which Skorik responded:

“We haven’t [been let go on a break]... As it turns out I haven’t got enough annual leave. The 21 days I’ve accumulated over the season have apparently been “used” between the 24th of March and the 18th of April. No more break for me! There’s no one we can ask about this. The management knows as little as we do, and the Head [Gergiev] is unreachable. The theatre itself is totally empty."

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