Alexa Boyles that is very rare in a dance company. Many studios and companies will but girls against each other ecspecially in competition. This was a very special opportunity and experience for her

Joffrey is an EXTREMELY good company too though.

+Stefania Lounsbury is it? Awesome to know! I'm unfamiliar with American ballet companies for the most part. I'm glad she got a good position though, she definitely deserves it!

+Genina Dolojan actually, I live in Chicago and have seen many Joffrey performances. I went to New York this summer and watched the ABT perform Cinderella. I was only impressed with the dancer who was playing the role of Cinderella, but she was just a guest from The Royal Ballet (Marianela Nuñez). If ABT is an "A List" company, than so is The Joffrey Ballet. Honestly, I find Joffrey's dancers more breathtaking and exciting to watch. Obviously, any dancer that can make it into any company is talented. I'm just stating my opinion...

Joffrey Ballet is far from being D-list company. It's actually better than ABT.

joffrey is the bomb wyd

She is so good I love watching her dance

Dope Dancer me too!

Virginsuicde I know this comment is completely random but I saw a comment of yours from 1 year ago I can't believe you're still watching this😂😂

Crossia don't tell me you didn't watch this a million times aswell ps I didn't know about this a year ago

Crossia don't tell me you didn't watch this a million times aswell ps I didn't know about this a year ago

Isn’t skinny? Girlllllll.. what size r u??

Brava, bravissima.

is she?

I like the more traditional classic style but the dancers should be versatile for the professional ballet world

TRUTH. my teacher taught us one Russian style class once and my legs died.

+lauren Stephens it realy depends on how you are trained

People can joke about whatever they want

I'm sorry If me joking around offended you. Not trying to be rude or malicious and I thought it was pretty obvious I was joking around. I'm joking around about my own body in the comment I made. I joke around about death all the time. It happens to everyone... So I don't see any reason not to joke about it. If I'm not talking about hurting or killing anyone (which I clearly wasn't) it really doesn't matter. I'm not hurting anyone. Also, I have the right to free speech so I can joke about whatever I want to *****

omg stfu you're like 8

why would you spoil the show?? so rude. :\

Please can you at least write ‘SPOILER ALERT’ at the beginning of the comment because I think you have ruined the ending for many people. 😩☹️

It's good, too, because Ella and Mayumi are more used to the hot Miami climate, and Valerii the colder northern climate.

Is Joffrey a good place too? Like MCB ?? I'm not knowledgeable of the ballet world.

@@Emjay_Music Yes Joffrey is very good, it's one of the first companies you normally hear about as a ballet dancer.

I didn’t even know I needed this show but I definitely did

Annie Zhang she got to Chicago company, Joffrey ballet but not ABT

Annie Zhang I looked her up

fifi aww sad😥

@@dsdsksdmsj3045 how in the world is this sad? The Joffrey is one of the top ballet companies.

***** She still looks pretty tall to me. And to expect that girl to lose any weight is just madness.

Phil:) It's true, she is much less angular than your typical Russian ballerinas

In Russia, they like long legs, real slender arms and torso, and long necks. Though she does have many gifted qualities, she does lack some of the born gifts many famous Russian ballerinas have.

+Arielle Dietz I agree , she doesn't look like Vagnova's school ballerina

Phil:) she does dance on pointe, which makes her look much taller

Lily Shay muyami

Lily Kat I'm from Brazil and I met her once. She Is amazing!!! She Is so adorable and an inspiration. She did ballet in the same school I do.

MAYUMI I LOVE YOU!!!

+antonia defries There are plenty fantastic ballerinas in the US

antonia defries, what makes the Russian school so successful and competitive is its ironclad discipline bordering on cruelty. The Vaganova Academy is definitely not a place for sensitive types.

valeria even said herself that she doesnt have the body type that russians prefer whereas america and europe will take more body types.

antonia defries it’s still competitive out here. Russia’s tough mainly because their physical requirements. No matter how good her technique is, she would never be successful in Russia because of her body type. America is way more open to different body types.

Clarissa Leung when I said that, I meant how for example, they require different lines (I didn’t mean physically acceptable and unacceptable by body type). Where American style likes a leg line to usually stay in line with the floor, the Russians like your leg lifted almost to your head. Both styles are hard in different ways.

There are dancers in companies with that body type, just usually in the corps

Me

2020 lol 😂😂

R. H. she graduated from vaganova

Shes at joffrey ballet now

She know she will never be in a good Russian company because of her (beautiful) body type

@@lalalulu7422 The Russians like their dancers so thin it looks scary.

where in ct do you dance?

Orgest Uka she was likely dancing to the Black Swan variation in her audition video

Heather Marie "legit like Manny mua" 😂

pnoyremix from other replies she didn't get into any, but she dances at joffery which is still a great company

She’s at Joffery

@@greeneyes12346 That's a great company! Good for her!

It's called a French twist

No sadly but she is now a corp member of Joffrey

Can you pls put a time stamp I wanna know where that is

Etudes maybe? I'm not sure.

yes it's the etudes variation that she's dancing but it's not the actual etudes music

that is a tour jete

Olivia Gobbell thank you soooo muuch!! (*^^*)

you're welcome!

seer16 that’s probably one of the reasons why she left.

[cackles in Joffrey Ballet]

waterbot stop shes nice

I thought the same thing. Like wow.

Saaame comment... Wtf is wrong with this lady

Sinda lahouar right? there’s something slightly disturbing about it eeek.

what's wrong with that?

because pointe shoes hurt,they give you blisters and make your feet sore and stuff

Because it relieves the pain from dancing en pointe. I've had to take ice baths from difficult dance pieces, but I've never iced my feet like that

Kacie Broadfield it’s like a ice bath and many do it like this for ease of access. I use to ice my ankles this way.

Anna Stenson depends

No not really

***** She had to have. Kirov and Bolshoi are two of the most renowned ballet theatres in the world producing the majority of the biggest stars in ballet over the last century+. Graduating from either academy and not getting an invitation into their company is essentially failing in the Russian ballet world. You can go to another company but most know that you got there one of three ways: you didn't get a company offer, you didn't go to a good academy, or there are issues between the dancer and administration. eta:However, this in no way means that she isn't an incredible dancer. Plenty of people are promoted an hired at Kirov and Bolshoi that don't deserve to be while others who deserve to be don't make it.

bwoodsfinest How many students graduate each year from the Vaganova Academy (formerly known as the Imperial Ballet School, the associate school of the Mariinsky Ballet, known a the Kirov Ballet in Soviet Russia), the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Royal Ballet School, the Paris Opera Ballet School, The National Ballet School of Canada, or School of American Ballet? Hint: very few get accepted, fewer get accepted back each year, and fewer still make it to graduation. And how many spots are open in the parent company each year? Hint: hardly any, and sometimes none at all. Each student who trains and/or graudates from one of these élite schools is an amazing success. Getting into the parent company or any other company, while related, is another issue entirely, but not an indicator of success as a dancer per se.

Alfa Jor "...but not an indicator of success as a dancer per se." I never indicated that the failure (be it company politics, availability, or talent)are indicative of the dancer's ability. However, regardless of the dancer's ability, outside of the U.S., it's a failure to not make the parent company. Nonetheless, it doesn't dictate the dancer's future in the dance world.

It says later on she wants to do Western ballet style that's why she moved, not because she failed.

She said she didn't try to get into any Russian ballet schools, because she knew she wasn't skinny or tall enough and she wanted to come to America.