That was an illusion spin from figure skating! I always wondered if Ivan had some figure skating in his background because he was the first danseur I noticed doing sort of a scratch spin thing on his pirouettes, going from a retire position smoothly to more like a coupe (which would be good for angular momentum).

BRO FR I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE THE MISTAKE IS

@@minissa2009 illusions aren't only used in figure skating lol they're used in a lot of dancing techniques

@@minissa2009 girl i- not saying this to be rude or anything but illusions are a HUGE part of dance.. that's how you eventually learn how to do an aerial

@@karlabunns and maybe sophie No, there's a spin in figure skating called an "illusion spin" where you're doing sort of a camel spin but on every other turn you back kick into a spiral, which is figure skating's version of ballet's penchee arabesque. Invented gosh ages ago by I think JoJo Starbuck. Apologize if that was a pun and you were being facetious.

I do ballet

Jaco Potgieter And that has nothing to do with the comment lol

Didn't he do it with class😊

It's a pretty simple trick actually, easy to learn and it's great for recovery as he proved us.

Valisiev is one of the best ballet dancers I have ever seen he and Asipova are legendary

Not all heroes wear capes...

@@AngelaChen1115 And really, if the company is not the size of the Bolshoi, the corps and younger soloists may be dancing something different in every act. Truly unsung heroes.

ohnowo I don’t know why I can’t stop laughing at it I feel so bad

@@minissa2009 also the double performances a day crazy.

I laughed rlly hard on that one lol I’m going to hell

Same!!! I remember I was playing the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, then my memory decided to bamboozle me and I ended up looping into the wrong section. I literally had a heart attack but on the outside I made myself remain calm and I transitioned myself to a part where I was most comfortable with. I thought everybody knew about my mistake and I was so embarrassed but the adjudicator didn't even realize when I was reading his comments on my performance. I know playing piano and dancing on stage are two different things but when it comes to making mistakes, what you have to do is very similar: KEEP GOING!!!

Wow! Great Respect! This more than professional! You are quite intelligent and talented! 👍🏻

I relate to this so much! Sometimes I get so caught up in the emotion in the music that when I glance back at the piece I have no idea where I am, and I just have to let my fingers carry on while my eyes and ears try to match what I’m playing haha Well done on getting back on track so well at that moment 👍🏼

@A Mess we were encouraged to select pieces ourselves with the reasoning that if we had ownership from the beginning we would put in the time and work. When I stopped actively practicing (something I now regret) he gave me a bunch of Vivaldi. He knew that would be my way back should I choose. I still have that music more then a decade on and can still play but don't get to much because I don't like to with others about. My parents still have the piano and I prefer the intimacy of only playing for me and right now that privacy is hard to come by with me living at home. I don't like a fuss being made if I start to play.

I was playing a Christmas trio (violin, piano, cello) on my cello and skipped at least two lines. Panicked and kept tempo in the same key until I found my place again. It's so nerve- wracking.

Yeah except if you actually fall on your face! But once I turned in the wrong direction and nobody would have noticed if the 15 other girls around me were not there doing the turn right...

@** biLsexual ** still flying at least.

0:35 yes so graceful

Yeah, especially since the fouettes are nearish the end of the show, its entirely possible that Odette's shoe(s) could die by that point. She did the pique turns on the other foot, so imho it definitely looks like a problem with that shoe.

Or they're injured... Misty Copeland had several stress fractures in her tibia at one point during her career and she actually had to stop dancing.

Katherine S oh so carefully put especially because of the cross there..which we all have no choice but to be. How about this? Bring it sista or let someone else get promoted.

Kathryn Morgan- who is a soloist at the Miami city ballet, had to do the ménage instead of the fuettes due to an illness. Copeland isn’t a first and won’t be the last.

She wrote a biography and I read it. I’m pretty sure it said something about that and she didn’t think she could do all of them. So I think what she did was plan b.

the pointe shoe looked like a flat shoe crazy🙁

Reminded me of Ould-Braham’s right dead pointe amidst her Rose Adagio. She nailed it, though.

As a layperson, I wouldn't have a clue that it's wrong. Unless someone actually falls, most "regular" folks have no idea about the choreography tba.

@@andreamacleod1127 Oksana failed to perform the hop en pointe or where you hop while en pointe due to faulty shank. Faulty shank disables the dancer to go en pointe properly. Though, Oksana improvised well here.

@@margalindo653 I think it was her shank - you can see she couldn't hop on pointe or even get up on pointe without using her other leg. The shank might've been too soft. Once when I was doing centre on pointe, my shank just died lol.

Kaisu Rei I would die of embarrassment. Like I would fall, and then very very quickly run off the stage

*Dragon Fruit* Which proves you wouldn't be a Dancer. A Dancer assumes and continues.

Problem is, a lot of people in ABT say she doesn't master fouettes and never passed 20 :/

Moyûga Chan see I’m calling bulshit in that because I’m certain there’s footage of her doing the full 32

@@TheNonMakeupGuru She has never done the full 32 and is in fact on the record as hating fouettes because they frighten her. The ones in this clip are so poorly done that a member of the corps could probably have done better. Her spotting is off, she traveled over half of the stage and was obviously dizzy afterwards. I'm not saying she shouldn't dance Odette but they should find someone else similar looking to dance Odile. Because Misty's box office draw is so strong they'll never deny her a role even when she cannot fulfill the technical requirements. :/

She can’t do the fouettés???? Why the hell is she the 1st ballerina??? Ahh I know, she played the race card... smh.

Misty is highly overrated regardless of her fouettes. She’s a creditable dancer. Not a great one. In a company like ABT you have Misty as a Principal and a treasure like Skylar Brandt is a soloist

To be fair, I've seen her do single, single, double, but then still just stop and pose at about 22 counts. My issue with this video is that I can't really classify that turn as either a pique or an attitude---she's somewhere in between, and her arms are not exactly textbook for either. I've read of other recoveries she's made, like switching to sequential pirouettes halfway through on her debut. I've always been curious what the rest of this Black Swan looked like, if it was all a little unsteady or superb until this point, or what the rest of the coda looked like. It's nice of everyone here including Angela to be sympathetic. I *have* read on other threads where only this video was posted that she typically doesn't get through all 32. Have also read things like that, due to knee injuries, great dancers like Antoinette Sibley just did a manege of piques, but that's different than having to adapt mid-coda. Herman Cornejo of course looks fabulous.

I've wondered the same tho' I admit to having seen other videos that left me unimpressed by her.

It's not a mistake. Mirth wakes them up from their grave

cantankeruz They really are. You have to have a thick skin.

Ha! You think that theatre, cinema, politics, business...are any different?

My god is this true. Under ANY comment mentioning Copeland theres a whole horde of people there to tear the girl down for every little thing. What the hell is this?

Well a few years ago when Oksana was still constantly making mistakes people were talking a LOT about her too... But now she has improved immensely and is very technically stable

The fact is that we saw now Oksana do the Giselle Variation perfectly, but we still don't have a video of Misty proving that she can do the 32 fouettés. Once we have the proof she can do that, there will be no criticism anymore :)

This whole comment section is very telling on that, and not in a good way

If it had been one mistake, I'd agree. It's not. She cannot do the fouettes at all. She even admitted in an interview that she can't. There are ballets in which she is great, why is she cast in those where she cannot do the steps?

@@jewelmarkess So? Ballet has taken a massive step in caring for the dancer's health and such. That doesn't make them less talented. I'd like to see anyone try to do 32 fouettes, on pointe, through 30 hours of practice, several on stage shows, and then go back to the office for more practice. I've read interviews from even the TOP ballet dancers and they say they have trouble, couldn't do, etc the same dance. THEY'RE DIFFICULT.

@Existential Toast - yes, they are difficult, but one expects a principal dancer dancing the role that requires them to be able to do it. If a dancer isn't able to do them, there are roles that don't require them. "Anyone" is not a professional ballet dancer. I can show you a video of a 7th (ballet) year - one year before graduation - at the Vaganova academy where every girl is able to do them except for one who is likely injured (and still does more than Misty Copeland manages on a good day). Don't you think one should expect more from a principal dancer than from students most of whom will be in corps before they become soloists (and some might not even get a job.)

@Existential Toast - enjoy (at 6:50): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e717l5iksZqxlGw.html Don't you think a principal dancer in a major ballet company should be able to do what 17-year old ballet students can do? Yes, it's difficult, ballet is difficult, but we are talking professionals here. You seem to ignore the fact that it's not one bad night and that Misty simply cannot do them. (edited to add) Saying "this is very difficult which is why a principal dancer that keeps getting cast in the role cannot do it consistently" is like saying "this virtuoso piano/violin piece is very difficult this is why this concert pianist/violinist that plays it in concert is never able to hit the right notes. It is also the same thing as saying "Queen of the Night aria's staccatos are very difficult, so it's OK to have a singer who cannot do them accurately or hit the required high Fs cast un the role."

@@myshmallow Well, if that's the case, they shouldn't be demanding the money they earn. There are plenty of dances that can ' do 32 fouettes, on pointe, through 30 hours of practice, several on stage shows, and then go back to the office for more practice'..This is their profession they should be able to execute these steps..

Not only that, I like her improvisation more than the actual choreography

@@roseg.9519 Dude, cmon, seeing those 32 fouettes go off smoothly is absolutely brain shredding! Her recovery was smooth, but not better than the intended choreo.

@@jdagilliland well, they are only impressive, but not interesting to watch her repeat the same move for 1 min.

@@roseg.9519 If the whole ballet had just been fouettes from start to finish, you'd be right, but as it is it's just a beautiful patch of the larger texture of a masterpiece.

same

I hope so too, it was quite noticeable! 😅

yess same :)

principal dancers in big companies usually use a different pair for each act, making catastrophic shoe failure somewhat less likely

@@alfredskilton I mean yes, but that doesn't mean that at random points during a performance it won't end up happening. Things happen, they land just perfectly awkward on a just and that starts it all falling apart necessitating them to bail on a move or something.

That variation was added in a revival that Petipa made in 1887 (or 1889). Music by Riccardo Drigo.

The problem is - she gets the role all the time. Also Kitri. Yet, she cannot do the fouettes at all. She gets the role because she is popular because of her book and publicity and she sells tickets.

She was supposed to do 32 turns and she only did like 12 or something. That's what I got from comparing it to another swan lake video. LOL someone who actually knows should enlighten us.

Some ballerinas will do more than 32 turns and usually ballerinas will mix up the turns by doing different patterns of singles/doubles/triples, change the tempo on different turns, and even change which direction is the 'front' for them spotting. Professional ballerinas don't get to do the role if they can't do the basic technique of the 32 turns & then it is pretty standard for them to do enhanced versions. This is where the controversy comes in as people say that Misty regularly can't complete the required basic turns. I've now seen 2 videos of her not accomplishing the turns. I find her to be a beautiful lyrical expressive dancer but, aside from the turns issue, I've seen lots of sloppy ballet technique from her. Lovely dancer but not accomplished enough in ballet technique to be a principal ballerina.

@@lollylula6399 The only one, that I saw, actually doing all 32 fouettes (not throwing in those piroettes) is Nina Ananiashvili. The free leg has to "whip" for it to be a fouette.

@@lollylula6399 for clarification it is not 32 turns it is 32 fouettes for swan lake. The great Maya Pliesetskya opted not to do fouettes at all.

I thought you were playing "Misty" by Erroll Garner...!

Manda Panda yea I saw that when I rewatched it and counted. Kinda sucky to have the hype of a performance and the performer not being able to do it

Check out the This is Opera! channel for a really enlightening critique of vocal technique in opera :) kzfaq.info/love/ZmPxGnYwbE-mrhuI0UivHQ

Problem is, a lot of dancers in ABT say that she doesn't master fouettes, and she never did more than 25. And some say that recently, Copeland was replaced by an other dancer of ABT (and the poor replacing girl isn't even a principle yet while she would deserve it), during the black swan act (and Copeland cam still play Odette). Plus you can see that her choreography are always simplified in comparison with other dancers from the same company (you can search for "nutcracker pdd ABT", and compare her version with Gilian Murphy's). Indeed, once you are a principle you should have the right to express yourself and change some elements in old Petipa's choreography, but you should at least be able to execute it smoothly before trying to change it IMO. :)

Copeland

The shank on her shoe snapped, that's why she didn't do any of the piques en pointe.

@@jangeltrain Oh what a pity, I messed up the token PoC's name, lol.

@@Charoula1608 what a disgusting comment.

Indeed, I've seen a video deliberately making fun of a tenor's voice crack. It was brutal!

I'm not a ballet dancer (theatre kid for life) but I remember I felt that same type of fear when I did Peter Pan (I was Wendy) and I could tell that my fly rail harness thingy wasn't put on right (it was too loose) so I had to hold onto it every time I went in the air. It was absolutely terrifying knowing that if I removed my hand from the strap holding my harness together, I could fall out into the audience (we were really high up too- I think we were about 7 or 8 feet above the audience- like actually above the audience, like, we were directly above the first 3 rows- it was not fun lol)

The issue is - she cannot do fouettes at all, she's never done them. So why do the role where she cannot do the choreography? Incidentally, she has the same issue in all classical ballets and not just with fouettes.

Violet Seven and the lady with the wobbly knees 😂

Damn, I have the funniest viewers ever