aspiring ballerina

aspiring ballerina trying to work my absolute hardest everyday in my passion of ballet || 15 years young || vaganova trained || lover of fruit, stretching, and happiness || for a better viewing experience, check this blog out on a computer.

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Please message me if you’d be interested in being buddies in losing weight. <3 I’m working to lose 10 pounds HEALTHFULLY, and I NEED motivation/pressure. Thank you xx

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Svetlana in Revelation // I’M BACK WHOOP WHOOP

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@bebem99 on Instagram as a Shade

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Veronika Ignatyeva in Peasant Pas de Deux from Giselle

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Jack Devant Photography of Ella Persson in Giselle

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Sveta dabbing??!

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Vaganova Ballet Academy boys in class

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Svetlana Zakharova rehearsing Giselle at the Mariinsky Theatre

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Baby Cassandra Trenary, American Ballet Theatre Soloist. I hope she gets promoted soon!

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VBA students in rehearsal

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Daniil Simkin is my favorite male ballet dancer (and I got to meet and talk to him too)! Message me or send me an ask with your favorite male ballet dancer(s), and I will try to post some photos, videos, or gifs of them.

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Beautiful Paris Opera Ballet School students. 

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Royal Ballet Monday

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March 2nd, 2016 || Daily Class Journal and Corrections

Day 3 with the brilliant Irina Chistyakova:

We had a class all on pointe today. I honestly had SOOOOO much fun in class and was just loving every moment of it. I love ballet so much. <3 

Here are a few of the millions of corrections:

-(unlike my normal teacher) keep arms in front of you when doing allonge from fifth position arms

- keep arms in front of you in second position and relax neck area

- really plié in jumps and for turns

- pirouettes en dehor: get leg up before beginning the turn, really plié before going up to think of just really lifting while turning and not just spinning, and don’t turn in front leg before starting the turn (she demonstrated these corrections on a girl in my class)

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Monday, May 2nd, 2016 || My Goals for Class

I have been working on my exam class for a few weeks, and we are just beginning to work on variations. Groups of three or two will perform different variations. We have only learned three so far, one from Paquita, Gamzatti variation, and Giselle Act I variation. So far, I want to be chosen to do Giselle. My class on Friday went very well when I rehearsed it for the first time for my teacher in my group because all of my turns were clean and solid.

Goals for Monday:

-32 fouettes on pointe (sorry for not updating you guys on my progress! Ever since I have been wearing my Suffolk pointe shoes, my fouettés have improved dramatically. I can do them so quickly now too. I am working to get 32 in the music for my exam, but you have to turn extremely quickly to hit 32. So far, my record is 29, but we have only had fouettés in our exam for a week or so. Therefore, I am confident I can improve.)

-Practice grand allegro exam combination.

-Do oversplits after class.

-Do feet exercises before class.

-Focus on upper body in adagio.

-Work hard to get cleaner turns in barre combination!

-Remember to do en dedan arms in the last pointe combination

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@ruby.tear on Instagram and her beautiful hyperextended knees from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

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Juliet Doherty inspiration.