PAQUITA ballet solo - LEARN IT at home with Maria Khoreva

Hey guys! Today, as you can see, I'm trying to pull off my red lips. That's because we are going to learn the steps of Paquito "Grandpa" variation, the variation from Act 3 of the Mariinsky production.

Hello everyone! Today, as you can see, I'm wearing red lips, trying to create some kind of image.

So, the ballerina comes, she comes very beautifully,

And she goes into this position Very prominent arms, very Spanish mood, very beautiful, trying to make it character And then we start with the orchestra It's important to look at the conductor

So what we do is we do balance and pose. So this leg is bent, the arms are like in first and third position, but just turned into a Spanish position. And what we do? We do balance, pose again, balance,

plié second arabesque. So the arms go allongé first position and Spanish position. Allongé second arabesque. And the legs are just balancé

pose. Balancé and then stretch the foot and on plié the arabesque position. Balancé, we stand in a pose, we stretch our foot and show the beautiful second arabesque. So the next thing is this little tiny cabriole. So with the legs we do cabriole, little dégagé and we go into the arabesque. So arabesque tombé.

and the arms go into this character position. So on tombe the arm goes allongé and we again, this variation is about the character, and we go and look kind of over the hip and over the elbow

So it goes. And then we go into renversé. So we tombe, we renversé, pas de bourrée and this pose to bouchon. We do renversé, open our arms, pas de bourrée. It's important to only do three steps here. It's important not to touch, but to do exactly three steps on the fingers here. After tombe, we open the arms to renversé, three steps, and we open to this position.

So renversé, close the arms, this one goes on your waist and this one does the accent here in allongé. And we do the accent with our head. Then we bourrée, fourth position, two pirouettes and finish again

Glad that you finished these two pirouettes. Заканчиваем. Рада, что сделали эти два пируэта. And go into the first pose again. So that's the first phrase. Переходим в начальную позу снова. И это будет конец первой фразы. So we did the pirouette. Step, step. And point. Шаг, шаг и точка. So, balance, pose, balance. Second arabesque, cabriole.

pose arabesque, roverset, open, pose, bourrée, two pirouettes, finish, pose. So I'm gonna try showing you musically. So kind of like this, okay? So we finished here and then we do another.

small little cabriole and we go into écarté to this angle. So we are here and we go params and balance. So from here the legs go, cabriole turned out, foot, développé écarté, balance, step fouetté and plié in arabesque. And the arms go écarté, again here elbow

And here we open through the third position to this character position like this. Okay, so one more time. Slowly we do cavriol.

Double a-pay, balance, foueté plié, and then we do battu, battu, and quick fifth position. So arms here are just free. We do battu, battu. Fifth position, free hands, and this pose. So feet go quickly in the fifth position. Feet go quickly in the fifth position. And the arms go

We run to the top of the stage, to the center and do preparation for the next part. Only the third position is a lunge. Legs to the back.

Okay, so we do pump pump pump pump, run run run run run and preparation. Okay, let's try this part musically. So we finished first part. Okay, great.

So we do on the last count of the first phrase, we do this preparation for the next part. На последний счет этой фразы, на последний счет первой фразы мы делаем препарацион к следующей части. The next part, we're gonna start with the legs, the next part is just big WPs. Следующая часть - это просто большие WPs в сторону, like this. We're gonna do it four times. So we prepare,

And we go: dvp, pk, dvp, pk And this time the big dvp to the side, pk, step to the cdp dvp, pk to the cdp And the arms go: LNJ, cross, LNJ, cross It's very important to keep working with your arms while the legs are strong The arms try to continue this

Beautiful movement. It's important to keep moving your hands softly while our legs are strong. This part is a little bit different musically. It's a little more slow and more long. I don't know how to say it, but we changed the character a little bit here. So it's more long lines and more graceful, I guess. This part changes a little musically, so here we have a little more singing, stretching lines, more gentle movements.

We are doing a double tour with our hands on the waist.

So, four times developpe. Oops, sorry. This is fourth time and we do double. Arm opens here, we move on this hop to the other side and again we move. We did this pirouette,

And then we step and do this pique with the other leg. We stand on one leg and do the pique with the other leg. This very character move again. Also a characteristic movement. So we finished here and then we run, we sit second arabesque, open the arms and close to the fifth position FSA right leg forward. We came, sit down, open both arms,

So we did this, we run, run, run, run, run, obviously. We will be having much more space. We sit, pum, pum, and do this accent. So let's try this musically.

Alright, and then only the last part is left. We do balanés on pointe. So we start on coup de pied here and we do So every second time we stay. And the arms are interesting. We do balanés every second time.

We try to stand on our fingers and we have interesting hands, my favorite. So we go here and we go balané, balané, open, open, balané, balané, close, close. So we are showing that it's so easy for us to stay on our leg. Open, open, close, close our hands every time we stand and show that it's very easy for us and it's not hard to stand on our leg.

So it looks like this. We closed, we prepared ourselves to be glorious, to try being glorious and we start. And we do this until the music ends. Делаем до конца, почти что до конца музыки, almost till the music ends. Let me count. We're gonna do seven times two balanés, so it's gonna be 14 times, 14 releves on one leg. We did this, we do

After the last two bolognese we do a pirouette on the dance tombe with our hands in the third position, we land on the knee, pull our foot and accent with our hand. So let's count this musically again.

You would be obviously moving during this diagonal. But I don't have enough space. So yeah, the ideal thing here is to move as well as stay every second time.

And when you do the two last polonaises, you prepare for the pirouette, you open the arms, you do the pirouette, and you land an accent. It's perfect to stand and move in this part. And move and stand every second time. And before you do the pirouette, open your arms. Pirouette. Hands in the third position, land, hand on the side, accent.

So yeah, I think this variation is a lot of fun and it's not as hard physically but it's all just about finding the ways of dancing with your body and your soul and just really finding this Spanish mood and really celebrating the marriage because Paquita is getting married in the third act and it's a very nice moment.

And it's a moment to show that you can stay and a moment just to show that you can dance beautifully and that you can dance not only gypsy dances. Yes, I think this is a variation. I really like her dancing, she is very playful. I like her characteristic Spanish details, I like her accents. She is not very difficult, but it's great to find in her some opportunities of dance, of life.

And just celebrate the wedding of Pohita, because in the third act Pohita marries... uh, marries Pohita, sorry, Pohita marries Andras. And this is an opportunity to show some beautiful dances, not only Gypsy, but more elegant, more palace. Well, that's all, friends.

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