#shapran

[tikitania]

Nadezdha Gonchar announced her retirement from the Mariinsky. I wonder if this is the beginning wave of retirements. The Mariinsky has a lot of soloists whose careers are hitting 20+ years.

Also, does anyone know what’s going on with Kristina Shapran? She barely dances anymore.

Photo: Mariinsky

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Anna Shapran

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Anna Shapran

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Andrey Shapran - Cape North, Russia

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Kristina Shapran in as the Dying Swan.

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Polina Shapran at Raisa Vanessa, Spring 2023

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Do you happen to know why a fair amount of principals and soloists at the Mariinsky rarely ever dances? From the 6 primas, only 3 are really active ones. Also, do you know why Shklyarov and Shapran rarely ever dances? Not as partners, just in general. I understand some of the principals/soloists are closer to retirement, but that's not their case.

The only one who I really consider 'inactive' is Vishneva. She's just not here, no longer dances classical repertoire, and rarely dances contemporary work fit for the concert stage. She's obviously on the site to keep pretenses but is clearly more involved in her foundation, studio, and choreographic platform.

Novikova has had her 4th child but is certainly still dancing. I believe she returned to the stage in March and recovered quite quickly. In May alone she danced The Legend of Love, MT's La Fille du Pharaon, Giselle, and in a gala. She also did both DQ and RJ in June and danced at a gala at Alexandrinsky Theater last week.

Kondaurova had major Achilles surgery but has been doing a similar amount of work. She's dancing about 4-5 performances per month including RJ, Lilac Fairy in SB, La Fille du Pharaon etc. This is not at all a small amount especially when they're all often different ballets.

Shklyarov dances quite a bit, he's still the go to partner for numerous MT girls and most notably he just had a huge choreographic evening honoring his 20th anniversary dancing at MT.

Shapran has had long stretches of time where she was absent to a combination of injuries and illnesses on top of maturity leaves. I wouldn't be surprised if the combination of these factors makes management more hesitant to cast her.

It's also not uncommon for older dancers like all listed here to end up with a lighter schedule in the summer, this seems to be a trend at both BT and MT. Dancers like their holidays.

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Frozen & Forgotten by Andrei Shapran

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Hii!!!

Who are your top 10 dancers from bolshoi and top 10 dancers from Mariinsky (working right now)?

Omg 10 is too much, I'll give you five and I will specifically exclude prima ballerinas because they're basically given. And yeah, these are all going to be female dancers.

Mariinsky

Kristina Shapran

Alexandra Khiteyeva

Maria Ilyushkina

Renata Shakirova

Daria Ionova

Bolshoi

Margarita Shrayner

Anastasia Denisova

Arina Denisova

Xenia Zhiganshina

Sofia Valiullina

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Please, share some news and your thoughts on Vaganova last graduation performance! I'm really curious to know where are the girls going! I know that from Kasenkova's class, she always show much support to Kulikova, Karamysheva, Sharova, Rissanen and Kuprina (though she's going to the BT). So my guess is, if the MT is taking four girls this year, it will be them. But it's just a guess anyway... but I hope it happens. They are good, but aren't much in the spotlight compared to the ones going to BT

I enjoyed the graduation performances, the students all performed wonderfully. Their cleanliness on stage made me feel like it was close to watching a professional company's performance. I especially enjoyed Koshkareva and Kodama-Pomfret's grand pas de deux, Risannen's variation, and Valiulina and Kulikova's variations. Kuprina also performed beautifully, though I thought she especially didn't get enough time on stage.

I enjoyed them bringing back the Laurencia Wedding scene which hasn't been put on in full by Vaganova since 2015. And having the Lively Garden from Le Corsaire was entirely new to the Vaganova.

However, I was hoping for a three-act performance like they've had in many past years. Even though they did Paquita three years in a row (2017-2019), now that it's been four years I would have liked for them to perform it since it gives so many dancers an opportunity for featured roles. It would have also been wonderful for them to do the Kingdom of the Shades which I believe hasn't been put on since 2011 with Shapran and Smirnova as Nikiya. There isn't often that Vaganova has a dancer mature and talented enough to perform the role, and I think there were quite a few graduates this year who could have done it, especially Kuprina or Koshkareva.

Really, my reasoning for wanting more pieces in the graduation shows are that the 8th year and 7th year classes are so so strong and there were so many girls that could have been featured more heavily. Even Kuprina and Koshkareva had only one relatively short appearance each compared to star graduates in the past who either had many different roles or one large leading role. However Kuprina, Koshkareva, and Barinova all shared the spotlight in Le Corsaire and then that was it for them.

I was also disappointed with how little Karamysheva was used. Her only featured role was as one of the Four Girls in Laurencia. Karamysheva would have made a beautiful Gulnare, 1st Odalisque, or Pasquala.

I'm still not positive where Karamysheva, Sharova, and Rissanen are going, but I know for sure now that Kulikova is going to the Mariinsky! Thank goodness with Kuprina, Koshkareva, and Valiullina all going to the Bolshoi. Hopefully Karamysheva, Sharova, and Rissanen were invited too. We'll see!

But even if some of them weren't accepted, it's definitely not the end of the world! Dancers who haven't been the absolute best in their graduating class who have gone to smaller theaters have often done very well. There's Lada Sartakova ('21) as a first soloist at the Primorsky, Mara Tudose ('21) as a leading soloist at the Eifman, Polina Chekhoviskikh ('20) as a soloist at Samara, and Maria Arseneva ('19) as a soloist at Novosibirsk to name just a few of the most recent ones!

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Eldzhey // Harakiri from Pavel Beliavskii on Vimeo.

Director - Max Shishkin @shishkinmax Music by Tars @tarsmakessence Rec & mix by Creamy @creaminal Art-director - Elza Serova @elzaserova Cinematographer - Pavel Belyavsky @belyavskyp Producer - Anastasia Klabukova @wow.wonder Wardrobe Stylist - Anna Artamonova @aartamon Production Designer - Philipp Sheyn @philippsheyn 1st AD - Konstantin Trubin @trubin_good 2nd AD - Anastasia Brovko @nastya_bro Casting Director - Gulya Jafarova @gu.jfrv Make-up Artist - Elza Tsedenova @elza.tsedenova Production Manager - Alexander Lyubenko @lubenkoadmincrew @liubenko.a Wardrobe Assistant - Anastasia Nevodina, Lilia Kabirova Assistant Designer - Pavel Ilchenko @il4 Сasting Assistant - Valentin Kudryavtsev @valentinkudryavtcev Make-up Artist Assistant - Evgeniya Karaseva @lamiu.m Administrators - Alexander Ponomar, Vlad Ponomar Gaffer - Kirill Shkhundin @kirillshkundin Focus-puller - Ivan Sushko Lighting Crew - Ilya Turov, Nikolay Shugurov, Evgeny Maslenkov, Ivan Belchenko, Sergey Ermakov, Yury Tikhomirov Camera Assistant - Vyacheslav Mukhin, Egor Chesnikov @egogiii Dolly - Alexander Kashin @kashinsdollygang Stagehands on set - Munir Ibadullaev, Sergey Shuster, Anatoly Pozdnyakov, Anatoly Pozdnyakov, Gurgen Ter-Hakopyan SFX - Maxim Sorokin @sorokin_m_ , Evgeny Sorokin, Olyanishin Pavel, Gogachev Dmitry @sfxstudio.ru Rental Sky Rental - Aleksandr Kykhalov @kihalov VFX Silent Studio - @silent_std Oleg Charukhin, Leonid Pak, Dabyrbek Daniyas, Louise Dolgieva, Artem Shapran, Dogalbekov Meirambek, Darmen Daulet Color Grading - Alexander Zolotorev @alexanderzolotorev Sound designer - Demitar Kesov @dima_kesov , Anton Nikiforov @tonymusfactor Actors - Babek M. Si. @babek.m.si, Tynchtyk Matubraimov Zhakshylykovich @bonbonofficiall, Vladimir Kopush, Rolan Arapov, Stanislav Levashov @levashov_st, Mahamotkamil uulu Makhomotshakir @grow_with_, Marat Salmurzaev @salmurnur, Roman Ovshinov

[tikitania]

Can someone tell me what has happened to Kristina Shapran? This is my Roman Empire and the lack of information is killing me.

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From today now I am a model. That`s a very strange journey for the artist, but I accept.

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Pavlova and Cecchetti https://youtube.com/shorts/klxsRd5S87U?feature=share

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Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Andrey Shapran