She's already a first soloist! She is a gem!

I hope Maria Bulanova will be a prima, she deserves!

She just debuted as Kriti. Hope she she got promoted soon. Love Maria bulanova

Danila Sedo I know right 😍 She is just gorgeous🙌🏻

And now she’s a first soloist at Marinski!! So well deserved

bronte barnett she's not ready to be a soloist and it's obvious every time she's on stage, great technique but not there yet.

Which Maria?

Amy Wang maria khoreva

No, women do them too, but yes she is amazing!

Holy cow!!

Nilas spasov I felt the same sensation. As they progress during the years they stop to just do combinations and become dancers. The final exam has something magical because they are really dancing and not executing exercises. I love the fact that sometimes they have something different one from the other because they are no more students so they are expressing something..... magical. Like the music and the dance cannot be stopped anymore

The teatcher is Mrs Kovaleva, Ludmila Valentinovna Kovaleva

​@@loopop3552 nikolay tsiskaridze

nikolay tsiskaridze

which one is that?

Aizhan Yermekbay front and center

ballet Bomb Oh Wow, Thanks for the info!

One of the girls, Maria Khoreva, is 18 (though she was still 17 at the time of this exam), so I guess they’re all about this age as well. The education at the VBA takes 8 years, meaning that these girls were in their final year during this exam (as they were in 8th grade) and graduated this summer. As far as I know, VBA students actually live at the academy (or at least those who don’t come from St. Petersburg), as they have an intense, jam-packed schedule - featuring not only dance classes, but also secondary school education and more. :)

They are all 17-18 except for Darya Ionova who studied elsewhere and got accepted to the 6th year directly, at 18. So she is 3 years older.

8th grade in ballet… that’s the final year in the academy. They are 18 or 19 years old already

Yes

Katherine Rosen So how do they decide who's at the front and who stand behind ?

Their teacher does! She knows who’s best and places them in the central bar and in front during the second part of the exam

Ta Mei н

Is it based on size too? Most of the girls in front are skinny. I mean they’re all skinny, but the ones in front are even more so

Maybe the pianist is - - Galina Bezuglaya?

I suspect it was removed because Vaganova academy complained, copyright and all. They don't allow now to film their exams. We don't know how that channel got its videos. Their website no longer exists either.

Which one is she?

@@jennyhe8961second group on the right with the darker hair and skin

NastyFore about 17 in this exam and 18 once they graduated last summer! Maria khoreva was at least.

17-18 for all. Basically, the 1st year is 10-11 on September 1st, this is 8th year and end of April. So it's 17-18 for most. When they turn 18 depends on when their birthday is. Maria Bulanova ended up ahead of her class, but she was still 17 at the time of this exam, she turned 18 several months later, either late in the same year or early the following year.

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They are 17-18 years old

15-16. They learn also a bit faster, spend much more time...If they we're 18, they we're nearly ready but they do 3rd year on point and do it better than others...

Given the fact that Maria Khoreva is 18 (even though she was still 17 at the time of this exam), I’d say they were all about that age as well. :)

@Andrea Taibel - lol, you are confusing 3rd year with 8th year, did you even watch the video? If you had, you'd see how ready they are. 4 of them are in Mariinsky now. This is the 8th year, the first year is 10-11 on September 1st, this is 8th year April, so yes, they are 17-18. Maria Bulanova skipped a year (had to leave after the 1st year, came back for the 6th and ended up a year ahead of her former class), but as her birthday is in January (of this year), she was already 17 at the time of this video. Another exception is Darya Ionova who studied elsewhere and got accepted to the VBA directly to the 6th grade, but at 18. So she is 3 years older than everyone here. As to the pointe, they start it in the second half of their first year.

Who's the girl to the right of maria (left in the video)?

@@jennyhe8961 Daria Ionova

I don’t see any heavy girl

do u mean maria bulanova? first of all shes not heavy wtf are u talking about second shes now a second soloist at the mariinsky so what do u mean "not so good"?

Вообще-то здесь экзамен, и рассчитано на счет и исполнение элементов...

@@yarinka_rukodelochka Рассчитать можно все, что угодно, а здесь как раз неудобно: a' la симфония Моцарта, сюита Генделя и т.д., это очень тормозит, это неудобно и даже нелепо и акценты не помогают, а утяжеляют движение, недаром во время экзамена педагог начинает считать им громко! И к чему культивировать стиль " Классическая сюита" на класс перенося? Есть более комфортный и стильный материал, а это ни уму, ни сердцу!

@@irmanovak8392 есть записи экзаменов классов Н. Цискаридзе - вот где замечательный выбор музыки.