i keep coming back to watch this again and again. what a lovely adagio and beautiful music.

Well done, Isabella! You are flying the flag for the UK! :-)

Im only on grade 5/6 and I am only very young. Looking at this, it seems I have to put much more blood and sweat into my dancing now! I hope for your exam you got a Distinction, and keep on dancing! I feel you have a very great future in Ballet! :)

you have amazing musicality, and obviously great technique!

Absolutely beautiful and lovely!

Does anyone know what the adage music (1:14 onwards) is? I'd love to get it!!

Isabella is great!

so wonderful ballerina...future star

Beautiful

It's very hard to imagine upon what you base these opinions. They are all lovely, & Mayes is certainly among the best. Do you prefer lower extensions? I sometimes wish dancers would not extend their legs so very high, just because they can, but even so, I find Mayes' controlled, beautiful extensions wonderful. Her landing of the fouetté sauté into 1st arabesque, just after 1:50, is excellent, & in the penché just after that, her leg is higher than anyone's, which, again, may not be to your taste

Her technique is brilliant but I'd love to see her support her arms a little more, especially in the turns.

is she from britain?

Where is she now?

How old was she in this video?

that is her )) isabella is the girl in the middle )

what leotards are they wearing in this video? i've been looking for a low v cross back leotard like that for ages!

how old is she?

Omg I'm grade 2 and I find that a bit tricky!!

is this RAD or ISTD?

TCHAIKOVSKY

Excellent legs, but her port de bras is nowhere near as smooth as a dancer's with truly Russian training. Especially her hands kinda kill the lines of her otherwise gorgeous movements. Too bad, but with time at Vaganova, she'll improve I think.