I believe when the iron curtain came down and ballet dancers, teachers and professionals in the West started to see their first glimpses of the ballet world in Russia, they were caught unawares. They had a lot of catching up to do. Along with the catching up, was an undertone of defensiveness and jealousy (about turnout, flexibility, extensions and technique generally). Then they started realizing that, without the iron curtain, they were looking at their competition, and ballet in the West started a giant, progressive leap. But old habits die hard. I had a conversation on KZfaq, just the other day, with a teacher who had posted a couple of approximately 8 to 12 year-old students demonstrating changement with absolutely no turnout (changement without turnout is actually an impossibility). Her response was that they were just children and they would ease into turnout over time, so they would not get injured. Unfortunately, the lack of turnout can be the cause of ballet injuries. Also if children, with pliable bodies are not taught turnout (albeit properly without injury) at a young age, their turnout pathways will never develop properly. If these students have good ballet bodies, the lack of turnout as they progress will (and should) spoil their chances. That is Yulia Stepanova I see in the front row of the first set of Vaganova Academy students (leotards and tights - no skirts). She is now a principal at the Bolshoi Ballet. How many of those who clicked the "dislike" button wish that they, their students or children had received the same impeccable training and discipline to have been able to make it to principal of any company.

@@normamimosa5991 I totally agree with you.

The dislikes come from most likely English speaking westerners who always love to stress that subjecting achild to pressure or criticism or strict standards is damaging to a child and is harmful and won't get better results. In this video they see their idea or "free childhood learning" broken down and smashed to pieces, as, for example, a Royal Ballet School pupil comparing to those girls will look quite bad.

Some people put dislikes everywhere, they don't care what this video about kittens or ballet is about.They don't do this because they don't like the video, but simply out of spite.

​@@user-sx3wy7mh9g Our channel regularly gets dislikes in batches from Japanese! Just like that.