Sleeping Beauty Kirov/MT 1/4 - Aurora entrance 1960-2010s - Sizova, Kolpakova, Lezhnina, Vish...

50 years Kirov/MT Sleeping Beauty, or how company style changed according to fashions. Epaulement is now 2nd-class citizen, extension is king (in one case there is a more than 180° split jete, with the feet above the pelvis - it's actually exactly the opposite shape of a jete), and tempo got slower (but not much slower).

1964 Sizova
1976 Kolpakova    • Sleeping Beauty, Prologue and Act 1 -...  
1989 Lezhnina
1998 Vishneva
2004 Zakharova    • Видео  
2007 Somova [from MrLopez' channel]
2008 Obraztsova [from MrLopez' channel]
2012 Novikova
2012 Shirinkina
2013 Osmolkina    • SLEEPING BEAUTY Osmolkina Zyuzin 22 M...  
2016 Skorik    • Видео  

Zakharova is guesting with the POB and dances the Nureyev production. Somova and Obraztsova dance the Vikharev "reconstruction". The rest dance the K.Sergeyev production.

All dancers were in their early-to-mid 20s at the time of the performance, with the exception of Osmolkina and Kolpakova who were in their early 30s and 40s, respectively.