A dancer who has eye for drama. Spectacular. I have seen so many versions of this choreography, only good dancer can full the somehow slow music with energy and passion.

I love how her kicks get progressively higher!

SF Ballet's gain was the Bolshoi's loss. They wanted glitsy showgirls like Volochkova instead of an exquisite dancer like Kochetkova who didn't fit their physical mold. Karapetyan is another hugely underrated dancer... a beautiful combination of power, flexibility and classicism. Helgi Tomasson, while not my fav choreographer at SFB, has always been an amazing judge of talent.

she has everything. Grace, perfect technique, artistry, the most stunning lines (especially for someone under 5 feet!), precision, musicality, style, the list goes on. she is just the epitome of perfection in my eyes. captivating and stunning.

That is gorgeous...flawless..great technique...love the way her legs look...pointe arch is absolutely beautiful! :D

this was ughh!!! ♥ her feet, her expression, just everything was gold!

With her body and her lines she looks like a butterfly... She's so lovely!

Her body movements are just so graceful...love her so....

She is phenomenal, pure perfection!

Ottima riconduzione dei passi all'euritmia melodica da parte di questa ballerina ed una impressione sensibile d'esecutivita d'acchito è di fluente levità fatta tensione motile ed elanista sorprendente.Ottimo il senso del continuum dato alla pièce danzante.Molto brava.Bighin Giulio Renzo 😊😊

Amazing! AND she doesn't whack her arabesque or anything in the second part. I love her even more for keeping it to 90' and really controlled. I've seen some awful versions when the girls whack the leg up, totally unplaced just to get an arabesque there. BRAVA!!!

she was so giving and demanding with her upper body presentation in the beginning and and it was gorgeous like oozing honey, but then she seemed a little reserved at the end of her pirouettes, like she took those finishes for granted. absolutely gorgeous though.

such a control....one fo the best Esmeraldas I've ever seen...

Kochetkova, truly an artist. Amazing.

Best Esmeralda I've ever seen!

Какое изящество! Красота формы💗♥️💗

Fabulos! Supranatural! Dincolo de gratie, de arta, de spectacol! MAGIE, pur si simplu MAGIE! Incredibil!

this is the best the best dancer i have ever seen,besides of course natalia osipova

her extension is absolutely gorgeous; i like how she's not whapping her leg behind her ear like many dancers these days.

That was beautiful

PERFECTION...

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Om my goodness she is so gorgeous and strong I hope I am as good as her one day.

@clbbear5 the musicality is there, in her gestures, her nuances.. i love that she isn't rushed and out of control, like most girls who dance this

She's my favorite Esmeralda!

She's amazing.

This is literally perfection!! I'm soo jealous

Красиво!..

Increíblemente perfecta!!!!!!!! ❤️

This is control and ease!

Her foot arch is so good.

simply amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST ESMERALDA IVE EVER SEEN

holy moly!!! that was beautiful!!

beautiful control!!! i love this esmeralda variation.

Умничка! Очень старалась!

fabulous!

My response is oh my god perfection!

je viens juste de voir la video quand elle avait que 15 ans. la meme danse. MAGNIFIQUE

Wow! You are fabulous!

Браво!!;

Великолепные данные! Отличница😊

Lovely dancer, precise anf charming.

she is my biggest insperation

Simply Gorgeous.

shes wonderful

best Esmeralda ever ♥

so talented

Beautiful!!

It's the best version ! *^*

This is the best Esmeralda variation ever!! Maria have a beatiful legs ,her piroettes good ,her feet are Amazing ,the arms Pretty well!!Her facial expression are good and she reminds me s.zackarova ...and of course is fantastic too

she is very graceful and has a completely extraordinary technique, but I think Esmeralda has more power, so I think the performance could have been a bit better, but it remains my favorite interpreter of Esmeralda. very well

wow beautiful ballet dancing

Beautiful😍

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This is soooo perfect

Amazing! She matches the tambourine to the music! :o

one word: WOW

Linda 👏👏👏

Waw ! PERFECT.

браво! блестяще

simplemente hermoso

I want to be like her!!!!!

AWESOMEE

that's a seriously awesome esmerelda.

she has improved a lot!!!

My aunt was a ballet dancer, and her take on that is she wants the audience to do the 'feeling' on their own, and to be able to take their own meaning from it, and that she shouldn't have to 'feel' all of it for them, and that dances with over the top emotion were self indulgent. But I see where you're coming from with calling ballet boring. I sometimes think that too. But I still love the effort that's put into it, kind of like gymnastics :)

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Wow

Oh I see :P I thought that was just the name of the character :P Thank you :)

#amei ♥

Supreme confidence!

I would love to see it at the right temp. It sounded slow to me. But pretty.

Fantastic performance; how can there be 54 haters that give the thumbs down? incredible and you haters go get a life.

I like what she did with the tambourine....different

i think it has something to do with the fact that sound waves are not that fast as the fotons are. it happens often in ballroom dancing, when your partner is standing far away from you in a big hall and youre dancing on the same "beats". but if youre standing closer to the orchestra than he does, youll hear the music sooner and therefor move sooner. it seems that a similar thing happened here because the camera is in the audience. i believe she is musical.

She Was On My State Test In The Reading Comp Portion. I Found Her Very Interesting

Srly in the intro I thought it was kitri BTW love it

2 people obviously do not know how to dance! AMAZING!!! She is fabulous!

I wish I hadn't left ballet... I'm going to university next year, I may enter again, probably will never get close to this good though...

More videos please please

oh por dios! me encantaaaa ! jaja quiero bailar asiiii lo he visto mas de 20 veces y aun no superooo cuan alto puede llegar su piernaaa! LOL

More videos please please please

Omg

this post is almost as old as i am.. but its really great dance, i really wish my mother let me continue ballet.

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Hey, that's okay :) Some people's tastes vary, y'know? Like for the life of me I can't see the beauty in hip hop, but some people love it.

And to know she's only a year older than me when she performed this 10 years ago makes me depressed and kills my dreams of ever becoming a professional. :'(

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제 1회 코리아 국제 콩쿠르는 대한민국이라는 나라가 얼마나 객관적이지 못한 심사위원과 국민들이라는 판단을 더더욱 확고히 생각하게 하는 결과물이였고.코체트코바는 억울하게도 엄청나게 과소 평가를 받고 고국으로 돌아가야했습니다.그이후 서울국제무용콩쿠르에 외국인 참가자를 거의 구경할수없었고..콩쿠르의 질은 한참 낮아졌고..말만 국제콩쿠르이지..한국인 끼리 놀고짜고치는 무대가 되어버렸습니다.

Says at the top: "Esmeralda" :)

Oui, elle est danseuse étoile du San Francisco Ballet. :)

Hi Can you please help me.. where can I find this music.. need this for my daughter dance competition

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Where do I find the music for this variation? Been searching EVERYWHERE!!

@EbonyMakeda She has amazing facility, but that position is a 4th and and on an angle so it looks like the front leg is ridiculously turned out. if the back leg (closest to us) was turned out the same way it would be crazy but if you pause you can see how the position is changed from a 2nd to a 4th effacé. Having said that, as I said at beginning she has A-MA-ZING facility so I am not trying to take anything away from her.

Why is this version of the music so slow? It seems to drag.