• SMV

How hiddeous is this picture? How can the Kirov Mariinsky hire a girl like this, who looks like a rubber contortionist doll? She can't even do a sisonne properly, for Lopatkina's sake. And don't make me start talking about her fouettes because I think I'm gonna choke: apart from the horrible "academically correct" russian fouettes she performs, she stretches her leg above 90 degrees, which in my particular understanding is unnecessary and pretentious. Besides, her attitudes en derrière are disgusting and clearly desbalancing. She should learn to use her extensions as tools, like Lopatkina, whose charming performances always include arabesques with half her extensions used.