The Bolshoi’s Olga Smirnova Makes A Much-Praised Debut In New York

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Twenty more videos will be added this week

ABT Principal Xiomara Reyes

Xiomara Reyes with Herman Cornejo in ABT’s Swan Lake’s Act 1 pas de trois

Xiomara Reyes and Herman Cornejo as Diana and Acteon at 2009 Dance Open Festival

ABT Principal Marcelo Gomes

Marcelo Gomes is seen here at 16 (1996) dancing a solo by Mark Godden at the Prix de Lausanne

Marcelo Gomes with Alessandra Ferri in the Othello pas-de-deux in 2007

Marcelo Gomes (from the start) as one of the Kings of the Dance in New York and other cities early 2010

Marcelo Gomes is seen here in the Coppelia Grand Pas-de-deux with Gillian Murphy

ABT Principal Veronica Part

Veronika Part in the ballet Raymonda with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet in St Petersburg

Veronika Part in the Baltimore Ballet’s Nutcracker pas-de-deux in 2007 with Cem Catbas

ABT Principal Maxim Beloserkovsky

Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko in “Splendid Isolation III” by Choreographer Jessica Lang

Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko in “Splendid Isolation III” again at NYC’s Petroushka Ball

Part 1 of Maxim Beloserkovsky with Irina Dvorovenko in the Nutcracker Pas de Deux

ABT Principal Julie Kent

Julie Kent in a brief interview and the pas de deux from Cruel World with Robert Hill

Julie Kent is seen here in the ballet Giselle with Vladimir Malakhov

Julie Kent is again seen here in the ballet Giselle with Vladimir Malakhov

ABT Guest Star Polina Semionova

New Years Concert with Vladimir Malakhov

Polina Seminova in Act 2 of La Bayadere

Caravaggio rehearsal with Vladimir Malakhov

At nearly 4 million looks, this is the most-watched ballet video in the world

ABT Guest Star Ivan Vasiliev

Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote

Ivan Vasiliev in Espartico

Ivan Vasiliev in Swan Lake

ABT Principal Gillian Murphy

Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella: Prince Siegfried encounters Odette in ABT’s Swan Lake

Gillian Murphy and Jose Manuel Carreno in the ABT ballet Don Quixote

ABT Principal Roberto Bolle

Roberto Bolle performs with his huge ballet team at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics (2006). Best version available - no English language version online.

Roberto Bolle with Svetlana Zakharova in Act III of Swan Lake at La Scala in Milan (2004)

Roberto Bolle and Alessandra Ferri perform here with a talented touring group they put together in 2007

ABT Principal Paloma Herrera

Paloma Herrera is seen here in a spectacular Kitri Variation from the Minkus/Tachaikovsky ballet Don Quixote

ABT Principal Natalia Osipova

Natalia Osipova performs as the Spanish Bride in Swan Lake (2006)

(In Russian) A 2007 interview With Natalia Osipova at the Bolshoi

Natalia Osipova is seen in rehearsal and dress rehearsal from the wings of the Bolshoi theatre

[Please click on the video to commence it - also, the music starts after a slight lag]

Natalia Osipova performed this Esmeralda Variation when she was 17 years old

ABT Principal Diana Vishneva

Diana Vishneva’s wins the Grand Prix with a performance of Carmen at Lausanne in 1994

Diana Vishneva Performs Beauty In Motion By Sergei Danilian (Premiered 2009)

Diana Vishneva As Kitra In Don Quixote With The Mariinsky Ballet of Sat Petersburg(Undated)

Diana Vishneva As A Student Dancer At The Vaganova Academy Of St. Petersburg (Undated)

ABT Principal David Hallberg

David Hallberg with Natalia (Natasha) Osipova In Giselle at the Bolshoi (2010)

Video 1 (with commentary in Russian and rehearsal)

Video 2 (with commentary in Russian and rehearsal)

David Hallberg with the Mariinsky Ballet In Act 2 of the Sleeping Beauty (2010)

ABT Principal Herman Cornejo

Xiomara Reyes and Herman Cornejo as Diana and Acteon at 2009 Dance Open Festival

Herman Cornejo in ABT’s Swan Lake’s Act 1 pas de trois with Xiomara Reyes

ABT Principal Irina Dvorovenko

Irina Dvorovenko as the black Swan Odile in a Swan Lake performance in Naples in Italy

Irina Dvorovenko is seen here with José Manuel Carreño in the ABT ballet Corsaire

ABT Principal Angel Corella

Angel Corella as Siegried with Gillian Murphy as the Black Swan in Swan Lake’s Act 3

Angel Corella dances We Got It Good with Corella Ballet Madrid (2009)

ABT Guest Star Alina Cojocaru

Alina Cojocaru Performs The D’Artagnan Tango in Lausanne (1997)

Alina Cojocaru in Ashton’s ballet Cinderella with the Royal Ballet Company (2003)

ABT Principal Ethan Stiefel

YouTube poster Adekiss’s excellent collage of various still images of Ethan Stiefel

Gillian Murphy and Ethan Stiefel in the Black Swan PDD at the Vail International Dance Festival

ABT Soloist Carlos Lopez

Carlos Lopez and Craig Salstein in the Neapolitan Dance from Act 3 of Swan Lake (2005)

ABT Soloist Craig Salstein

Craig Salstein and Carlos Lopez in the Neapolitan Dance from Act 3 of Swan Lake (2005)

ABT Soloist Daniil Simkin

Daniil Simkin dancing Part 1 of the world premiere of his Intensio in Athens (December 2009)

Daniil Simkin with Maria Kochetkova.in the Le Corsaire pas de deux in Tokyo (2009)

Daniil Simkin dancing Basil from Don Quixote at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition (2005)

ABT Soloist Gennadi Saveliev

Gennadi Saveliev with Hee Seo and Kiril Kulish in San Diego Academy of Ballet’s The Nutcracker (2009)

Gennadi Saveliev with ABT’s Gillian Murphy and Ethan Stiefel in Le Corsaire at YAGP (2003)

ABT Soloist Jared Matthews

Please click on the image above for the video of this great performance. It is not embeddable here.

This is Jared’s and Yuriko’s much-praised performance on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” which was seen by seven-plus million people - probably the largest audience ever for ABT dancers.

ABT Soloist Maria Riccetto

Maria Riccetto in flawless Swan Lake pas de quatre with Marian Butler, Karin Ellis-Weltz, and Anne Milewski

ABT Soloist Sascha Radetsky

Sascha Radetsky with ABT’s Ethan Stiefel in a montage from the ballet movie Center Stage

ABT Soloist Yuriko Kajiya

Please click on the image above for the video of this great performance. It is not embeddable here.

This is Jared’s and Yuriko’s much-praised performance on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” which was seen by seven-plus million people - probably the largest audience ever for ABT dancers.

ABT Soloist Stella Abrera

Stella Abrera with Ethan Stiefel, Alessandra Ferri, and Herman Cornejo in ABT’s The Dream (2004)

ABT Corps Dancer Hee Seo

Hee Seo with Gennadi Saveliev and Kiril Kulish in The Nutcracker (2009)