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    1. ilya Kuznetsov

      When you close your eyes - try to enjoy just being in ballet studio, just doing combinations, just listening music; the rest is not important...

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      It is changing. Maybe because I learn a lot, maybe because it's my character. Today I want to explain to my students the pleasure of working on perfection in every single combination of pas...

    5. ilya Kuznetsov

      I hope soon. Want to take camera to my hands, want to work on my mac, but lately only write and write...

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      Ballet World need to think more about music, meaning of musical gesture in a play, that reminds audience about beauty of nature...

      This is opposite of demonstrating how beautiful my arch is, my split, or how huge is my jump. If some people wants to see those things, they need to see gymnastics, not ballet.

      Ballet is an Art of MUSICAL THEATER.

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      I'd like to! Why not? Once in a while I have a student from UK in my adult class...
      Who knows, maybe, someday you will invite me to teach several classes! =)

    12. ilya Kuznetsov

      Thank you. As a dancer, I never thought about teaching career. It's just happened. Someone ask to give them a ballet class, and I did.

      For a long time I was a class "giver" (of cause everyone knows - there are class givers and ballet Teachers). Later, discovered the difference between giving class and teaching people. Slowly, little by little, I transform from one to another.

      This days, I'm still on the road to be a teacher. In old days, someone sad: You will become a doctor after bury a cemetery. Now, I know, It is almost the same with teaching. We always learn. Everyday. From own mistakes, from experience, from old masters notes.. Actually from everything...

      There are people in a class. Everyone is different. Everyday is different. One rule worked yesterday, and the same rule will not work tomorrow. I'm learning People, Nature and History...

    13. ilya Kuznetsov

      Yes, of cause. As many personalities exist in nature as many great dancers exist. It is always depends on the way dancer work and how much dancer can give to work... Give all you have and then, maybe, get a result!

    14. ilya Kuznetsov

      Joy will work in Bolshoi Theater as a cordeballet dancer. Mario will start soon in St.Petersburg as a soloist in Mikhailovsky theater... Both of them are very passionate and very dramatic about ballet, theater, art and sometimes even life =)

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      I don't know much about Nikita, heard he is not just a dance partner... Second question - I really enjoy to work with advanced students. When person can think, it is a pleasure for a teacher to help... Thanks for questions.

    16. ilya Kuznetsov

      I really like her dancing. She is one of the best in Bolshoi. Hope, she'll get more principal roles in the theater. And thank you for appreciating my videos - it's important for me...

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ilya Kuznetsov’s Bio

Moscow, RF

ballet-school.ru

Ballet teacher in Bolshoi Ballet Academy Moscow