Uma bonita tragédia...

’A Beautiful Tragedy’ is about striving to perfection. This is the story of the class of 2004/2005, the most talented class the school has experienced in many years. A group of teenage girls that live, eat and sleep together, where tempers flare, and jealousy is not unheard of. The price of success trhough the eyes of a group of young girls. It is the story of the silent Oksana (2nd right), the popular Masha (3rd left) and their teachers. We will also meet Nadia, who is about to end her education and little Sucha, who is just at the start. A story about girls and women whose lives are about one thing: dance.

Perm Ballet School Students

Yesterday i saw this documentary " A beautiful tragedy", about a tallenteddance student that is in the Perm Ballet School, in Russia.
If i imagine how hard it is to be a dancer you can see it my images.... It's a documentary that takes our hand and we just go.
The beauty of the words, the tragedy on those young faces... I was kind of fascinated with the documentary... so much that was even hard for the to sleep after... The following hours here hard and i felt strange...or funny....is just fantastic and hard to see.
The director is David Kinsella.
Congratulations. Congratulations.

Oksana Skorik

About the documentary (from www.davidkinsella.com)

Russian classical ballet is exceptional. It has glorious traditions, and is a distinct part of Russian selfconciousness. The popular engagement is huge, and dance is taken to higher levels of perfection than anywhere else. The Perms Order of Honour Choreographic School lies far east in Russia, close to Siberia, and is one of the most renowned schools in the world. Of five hundred children selected for the annual audition at the school, only 30 are accepted.

To get a place in the school the body has to be perfect: each part of the body is given marks, 5 is perfection. Then they look to see how supple the girls are, stretching their small bodies in every direction.

Most of the girls spend 9 years at this school, sacrificing their youth and suffering unbearable pain - only to realize that the dream will not come through. The ultimate goal can crash at any given moment. The main teacher, Sacharova, is a living legend in the world of ballet. Her portrait hangs on the wall. She is very strict with the girls, making them cry of exhaustion. She takes one of the girls aside and tells her angrily that more important than her physical abilities is her intellectual aspirations. Only the intelligent will become good dancers. "Idiots don't dance!"

The tallented student that the documentary is about...

The main character is Oksana Skorik (15 years old). The camera has been following her for a year.

For Oksana the ballet is her opportunity of getting away from poverty. She dreams about the ballerinas 'life on the sunny side of society'. She wants to see the world and to be admired by large audiences that appreciate her perfect and passionate dance.

Oksana has perfect legs and therefore encounters a lot of jalousy from her classmates, she is at the lower ranks of the pecking order that exists among the young girls. Oksana wishes that everybody would love her like they love her classmate Masha. She is lonely, longing for someone to play with and she misses the caring arms of her mother who lives far away in the Ukraine.

The mother, living alone encourages her to continue. Oksana is not only making her own fortune, she is also her mothers only hope for a more prosperous life. She started streching her daughter when she was three months old so that she would get a long and slim body - fit for ballet. Now Oksana must fulfill her mothers plan.

Oksana is 5ft 3ins and weighs 81.4lbs. During the annual checkup the doctor tells her to eat more. Like several other girls she does not menstruate. Her body lacks the lipidis needed to build hormons for normal development of the body of a girl in her teens.

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