I'm curious who your favorite ballerina's are for each role. I know there are a ton so just pic some of your favs. Mine are ...

Svetlana Zakharova -- Odette (Marianela Nunez second)

Gillian Murphy -- Odile

Lesley Collier -- Lise (La Fille mal gardee)

Altynai Asylmuratova -- Medora

Alina Cojocaru -- Aurora

Svetlana Zakharova -- Nikiya

Cynthia Harvey -- Kitri (she is just soo funny!)

Marianela Nunez -- Gamzatti

Julie Kent -- Juliet (her interpretation and ABT's choreography, McMillan?)

Svetlana Zakharova -- Giselle

Alessandra Ferri as Juliet!

Natlia Osipova- Esmeralda and Kitri
The picture cant seem to upload

Ulina Lopatkina - Dying Swan.
She IS a real swan!
www.youtube.com . . .

Simply mesmerizing!

Maya Plisetskaya, Kitri.
Just wonderful, so much much energy and verve and expression!
www.youtube.com . . .

Tiler Peck in Jewels. She is my new idol.

Marinela Nunez - Odette and Lilac Fairy (she can do no wrong in my eyes!)

Alina Cojucaru - Aurora

Natalia Osipova - Kitri

Alessandra Ferri - Juliet

Polina Semionova - Gamzatti

Maria Kochetkova - Gisele

Yeah! I'm going to see Tiler Peck in Jewels this weekend! I'm really excited.

Svetlana Zakharova as particularly the black swan, although she does a pretty good job at the white swan too. I think she portrays the evil as well as grace in the black swan.
Svetlana Zakharova as Giselle.
Sylvie Guillem as the lead in In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated. This ballet was choreographed for her and she definitely owned that role!!!!! The best dancer in In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated.

Defiantly Polina Semoinova as Giselle. I like Oksana Skorik and Svetlana Zakharova as odette and odile. I also like Lucia Lacarra and Natalia Osipova as Swanilda. I like Natalia Osipova as kitri. Of course Sylvie Guillem in In the middle somewhat elevated.

PS: The pictures are Osipova as Swanilda and Skorik as odette

Markarova as Odette

Maria Kochetkova as Juliette
Photo by Allen J. Schaben

Anais Chalendard as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet

Svetlana Zakharova- Odette
Polina Semionova- Odile
Evgenia Obrastova- Aurora
Natalia Osipova- Kitri
Paloma Herrera- Juliet
Altynai Asylmuratova- Nikiya
Marianela Nunez - in ANYTHING!
Alina Cojocaru- Giselle

hmm I hope this doesn't become the "who do you think does it better" thread

~Brooke~

Sara Mearns in Ocean's Kingdom

Sterling Hyltin (my FAV) in Apollo

Maria Kowroski in Rubies

Maria Kochetkova - Aurore in Sleeping Beauty
photo by N.Krusser

Isabel Guerin - Nikiya

www.youtube.com . . . She is SUPERB in this role. Pure, natural, subtle, elegant, right amount of believable emotion...


Silvie Guillem and Cynthia Harvey as Kitri.

Svetlana Zakharova and Karen Kain www.youtube.com . . . as Giselle.

Margot Fonteyn in Swan Lake.

Marsha Rodridguez as Esmeralda.

And whoever danced this role of Myrtha: www.youtube.com . . . really beautiful. Shame of me to say I can't find the name of the ballerina who danced this :/ but she danced so elegantly and did a great job of being ghostly and cold.



There are others but those are the ones that came first to my mind.

Maria Kochetkova - Kitry

I think so too!!!!

Melpomene wrote:

Isabel Guerin - Nikiya

www.youtube.com . . . She is SUPERB in this role. Pure, natural, subtle, elegant, right amount of believable emotion...


Silvie Guillem and Cynthia Harvey as Kitri.

Svetlana Zakharova and Karen Kain www.youtube.com . . . as Giselle.

Margot Fonteyn in Swan Lake.

Marsha Rodridguez as Esmeralda.

And whoever danced this role of Myrtha: www.youtube.com . . . really beautiful. Shame of me to say I can't find the name of the ballerina who danced this :/ but she danced so elegantly and did a great job of being ghostly and cold.



There are others but those are the ones that came first to my mind.

That Myrtha is Isabel Seabra.

And I definitely have to agree with you on Isabelle Guerin. She's amazing as Nikiya and I can't watch any other without comparing them to her.

I want to add to my list:

<3 Tatiana Terekhova-Gamzatti


~Brooke~