Where all the mismatched pairs of socks are?
Can you have mismatched ballet slippers?

You can’t trust anything to stay available; I’ve even hit 404s looking for some of Neo’s posts from only a few years ago.
The Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) is amazing, but they don’t save everything either, especially if a copyright owner requests something be taken down (which might be the case here).

All true.

Ulanova was famous for her ability to run on stage, which is more difficult than one might think. Unfortunately I’m unable to find a video of that in Romeo and Juliet, the most famous example. There used to be one on YouTube; I wonder where it went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ_hCJ5S9M

(Sorry, I don’t know how to place time markers on videos)

She enters just before 15:00 – and it looks like she is taking a little jump just as she runs onstage.

In the grand pas de deux her solo passages are at 19:45 and 22:40.

Wow.

She is not as flexible and wild as Plisetskaya, but she does not have that artificial plumb-bob posture of modern dancers. She has perfect balance but her torso is always slightly curved or inclined in a natural way. And of course she has a normal woman’s proportions.

Her arms and positions are never symmetrical – never! – yet always graceful and expressive. A Youtube commenter mentioned that she has “rubato” – a musical term that means the performer is not always exactly on the beat, but pulls and pushes the tempo in a natural way. I agree with that comment – from that first run across the stage, nothing is mechanically exact. It is all musical and expressive.

Like Plisetskaya, she is a real person with feelings.
She also has a very good, expressive connection with her partner.

https://x.com/TheFigen_/status/1898729437648024015

I wrote this review of the Black Swan movie when it first came out.

I’d like to know more about Galina Ulanova. She was a contemporary of Maya Plisetskaya.

Your video led me to the Plisetskaya version, though I can’t quite sync the two.

–“Black Swan Pas de Deux (1957, Plisetskaya and Fadeyechev)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R72ggZAqCo

Ulanova’s version is slower and I know that slower can be harder. Both versions are great, though I’ve become a devotee of Plisetskaya, so I’m biased.

Was the Natalie Portman “Black Swan” (2010) film worthwhile? I started it a few times.