Let's talk about the Black Swan. In before that movie gets released and this becomes all ~famous. Bitch pls btw.
To some extent, Swan Lake is easy to snark, it can be said. Because it's so precise and technical that it's easy to see when it goes wrong. Oh but the beauty ensues when it *is* perfect technically and hideous everywhere else.... It should also be said that SW is really boring.
So much that I once fell asleep watching a video of it. True story. But it's still snarky.

GILLIAN MURPHY - AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE


Haters to the left. This bitch is one of the fiercest Odiles and one of the most sublimes Odettes of our generation.
Oh man, she is so mean, so evil and so full of mischief. This is by far the best of her qualities for Swan Lake. Gillian uses her technique as a tool to be this evil bitch. And it is delicious. On the side, Gillian has the best upper body of most Swan Laker's these days. From her waist to her wrists she's so alive that I bet Paloma Herrera has nightmares featuring her.

SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA - KIROV BALLET


Oh hai gurl, we meet again.
Lol on youtube people are fighting about her passe not being open enough. HEATHUS FUCKING CHRIST. WHO CAN SEE HER PASSE INSTEAD OF BEING DISTRACTED BY HOW BORING SHE IS OMG. Julie Kent does the barre with more interest than this bitch's interest in this variation. For fuck's sake, Tamara Rojo walks with more attitude! And I could snark about things Gillian Murphy does with more interest but they would involve Ethan Steifel and that may be inappropriate. Look, I don't give a fuck if you can put your foot next to your ear in developpé, if you can't be on time with the music, or engage the audience in something other than your extensions then you really don't need to show that off. I continue to be baffled by her, tbh. And worst, by all the kids on youtube thinking she's perfection. Odette is not about extensions, it's about mischief and seduction and evilness. This is not seductive, it's boring. I died. Omg make it stop.
It's funny though that she actually happens to do a decent job during the PDD but here she dies again. You're a boring ass gurl. A boring ass with great extensions but still boring. Moving on.

MARIANELA NUNEZ AKA HBIC AKA BOW THE FUCK DOWN TO THIS BITCH - ROYAL BALLET


Where does the Royal Ballet find these women? What do they feed them?
I remember Marianela when she was a soloist. And I agonized for her to become a principal because Good God! Bitch is perfection!
She's like brb showing you all how it's done. There's something about her, the way she makes a movement become the next one and then that one becomes the next one. And this is hard to achieve with Petipa and especially with Swan Lake because it is so precise it's almost mechanic. But she does it. Quite flawlessly too. The Royal Ballet is the future. dealwithit.gif


WHITNEY JENSEN - BOSTON BALLET


Now she's Boston Ballet. Back then this was YAGP. You'd think wtf is she doing up there? Well there is no full video of Polina dancing this and so few dancers do this variation. It's pretty easy to see why though. Because it's a little bit out of tune with the PDD and it's much harder and it's much sexier.
That being said, look at this GQMF bitch. It's not even about how hot and awesome her pirouettes are, it's about how she performs them at such ease and so into her character. It's be easy to see why Seigfried ends up so dazzled. Because this is the variation of a HBIC. It's so complex and fast and sexy. Honestly, it's awesome. But yeah it doesn't fit the rest of Swan Lake. For this to be in the ballet, would mean something actually appealing (other than Angel Corella in tights) is on this ballet. God forbid.


OH WAIT I LIED POLINA SEMIONOVA AKA YOU JUST DIED.


It starts at 1:35.
IDK I COULD TALK ABOUT THIS BITCH AND HOW FLAWLESS SHE IS FOR DAYS BUT OMG DOES THAT DANCING NEED ANY FURTHER EXPLANATION? ALSO MY BREAK IS OVER AND I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY JJVERSE'ING.