What a wonderful documentary about Tsiskaridze he is my generations biggest star. I see a lot of complaining about his harsh teaching methods. He looks and sounds angry and he throws himself on the couch and he is a very theatrical person. BUT people it's ballet. And it's the Vaganova academy. He loves his students and they love and respects him immensely. I've had teachers at my ballet school, Royal Swedish ballet school (especially one) that had a stick that she poked and prodded us when she corrected. You won't get a top class ballet dancer without strict training. I had to finish my training before I reached professional level and would have loved having Tsiskaridze as my teacher.
@@irma777100 He is demanding and brutal; that does not equate to cruelty or abuse. Allegations of abuse are serious, and so far not one parent or student has accused Tsiskaridze of abuse. There are powerful people high up in the politics of Russian ballet, the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, of the Bolshoi Theatre who would do anything to kick Tsiskaridze out of the ballet circle. A bunch of people despise him, but still, not one complaint about the way he teaches. I don't know if you have some personal vendetta against him or you are misled by whatever sources you read or videos you watched, but Tsiskaridze does not abuse his students.
@@user-oy3wh9pr6z No but I love to hear what he did‼️ I heard rumors for years but it’s ballet and rumors are a million. Honestly I don’t trust Tsiskaridze he has something he’s hiding.
I am an English speaker but I understand Russian and I have listened to dozens of Tsiskaridze interviews. He is very soft spoken and extremely intelligent. This strict treatment of his students is something he does for their good, they have to respect him and it yields results. They adore him as they know he truly cares about them. It's called tough love and is necessary to teach discipline and prepare these kids for a very competitive world o ballet where they et yelled at all the time. Those who can't take it, don't make it. Yo have to be strong and tough to stay on top. Tsiskaridze beat many odds and stayed on top being a strong emotionally person even though there was a lot vulnerability abut him. He is the best and demands from his students to be the best they can be,. And when they perform well he praises them. They are so lucky to have him as a teacher and rector. I saw few gradation and exam videos and they performed perfectly.
BytomGirl - Hi tomgirl! You are right on target as usual I’m reference to Nikolai Tsiskaridze! Hr is tops on all classical ballet! By the way, I came out alive from surgery with a new Pacemaker. So now I just have to,heal! Hoping you are having a nice holiday week! Peter.
I honestly fail to see how he’s abusive. I haven’t done ballet but studied music for quite a long and it’s really the same. Your teacher will scream at you, yell at you, interrupt you, burst out and grasp your hand to correct it or whatever. Maybe from outside it looks like abuse but when you’re there and you’re passionate about music (or ballet) it just connects with you. You understand that if they are being “rough” it’s because they’re enthusiastic about music/ballet, and more importantly, they see you’re giving them something interesting. Can get pretty emotional, true, but I guess that’s also what hooks you up: the day you get it right, you truly touch the sky.
Those who are not yelled at feel left out, his best students truly appreciate his occasional harshness because they know he cares and wants them to be the best. They love him as much as he loves them
Exactlyyyyy I used to have a very strict teacher but I never cried or anything, she made me the violin player that I am, she was so passionate.. even though she was very very harsh I cried when they told me that she had to leave the school to take care of her husband, I never cried during the lesson, I was happy for every correction, I wish that she would have stayed.. because she truly showed me how to play.. she showed me the passion... I loved it, I loved it so much that then I cried when she had to stop teaching. If you are passionate about something, you crave every correction possible
I think he is lovely. I had a Russian ballet teacher in the 1960's: she was hard on us, created amazing ballet concerts and we loved her. This man is a true artist in the best sense of the term.
I can't blame him for all the tantrums, your teachers (regardless of what subject they're teaching) are also human beings and it's ALL due to stress as well.
@@deenagara9151 I don't even think it's necessarily stress, it's also getting caught up in the moment. There's this music in the background and music can manipulate the mood and even if you interrupt to teach, you're probably still caught up in the momentum. Also a lot of footage show him yelling but the kids are actually laughing a little, so I don't think he's actually being that harsh. He might have a little bit of that angry-comedian style of talking.
NT's extraordinary dancing during his prime, was, to me, intoxicatingly beautiful. Yet even now, when he is demonstrating steps for his students, I am awed by the sheer beauty of his legs, the pointed foot, and the incredible arch of the achille's tendon. He has the most gorgeous long legs I've ever seen in a male ballet dancer. Incredible.
It is a giving...when one eats, sleeps, and devotes his entire life to ones profession, he will always become a master at his art! I know, because I did exactly that, as Nikolai his done! But, I started at age 11 (eleven) and I became a master of my technical skills by the time I was 25 years of age. Never once after that have I faltered! Yes, there is a small price to pay. For example, no social life hardly, and I was oblivious of what my peers were doing on a day to day basis. Long hours, lots of sweat and tears but... in the end, always came out of a situation of fast learning. Remember as I did; your children only know what a parent teaches them! And when one fails, NEVER, EVER give up! Keep trying and the rewards will always come about! Thanks a million for listening - God Bless Nikolai and his family!
What a wonderful teacher! The students are lucky to have him. Of course he's moody and theatrical; he's talented and creative! He has vision, and gifted people are always that emotionally invested. Anyone who complains needs to suck it up, buttercup! He obviously has great love for ballet and his students, as he said his door will always be open. How loving.
I saw these very boys during their exam, they performed perfectly. I was really impressed and it is largely due to Tsiskaridze's strict teaching... World of ballet is very competitive and if they can't take some yelling from choreographer or artistic director, they will not make it. They have to be strong and he is preparing them for it. He loves these students and praises them all the time when they do well. He is amazing teacher as he was a dancer in Bolshoy. These kids are lucky to have him.
Wonderful to have the English translation of NT's words, which have so much truth, intelligence and meaning. Wishing all his videos had English translation. He is a great dancer and a great thinker as well! He has so much to teach his students and the rest of us as well!
This is hysterical and reminds me of my first teachers! It is so true-- if you do not get critique-- you are not of "interest". It is over. Not a big deal. It teaches students to be strong. Ballet is a difficult art if you want it to be your profession.
In one of the videos about Nikolai someone told a story about him teaching a class and one of the girls fell and twisted her leg but continued dancing, he told her to stop, she wouldn't so he finally yelled at her to stop and when she did, he came to her and gave her a gentle hug. He had a good reason for that, when he was preparing for a show in Paris, he fell, his knee gave out. He got up and started again but fell again and this time they took his to the hospital where he had 10 surgeries and almost died from the staph infection. When he left a hospital after a month, everybody was sure he was never coming back and was never going to dance again, after a year he came back and was dancing again. He wanted to spare his student the same experience I guess. She wasn't listening the first time so sometimes the harsh treatment is necessary to teach them discipline. Tough love yields much better results at the end.
Heavy staphylococcus infections can produce cardiotoxins, and in the video of "Carmen" produced just four years after... I could see him fighting his way through the sequelae. It's subtle, but if you've been through anything of the kind, you see it. I have a slight arhythmia to this day from an infection far less severe than that.
Beautiful and touching. He has real affection for his students, no matter how severe he appears. I love to see the young dancers - they are lovely. And he finds all sorts of imperfections!
He was a fantastic dancer. He had it all all, body, mind and soul combined with a perfect technique, musicality and the "human aspect" of fully embodying every role he danced. Whenever I watch him dancing, I am amazed how absolutely flawless his technique is and how well he is portraying the part he is dancing. I see him as a formidable teacher. one who deeply cares about all aspects of the Art of Ballett but equally about the pupil he is teaching!!
Nikolai is the most amazing of Dance Professionals!! I Love Svetlana Z. as well!! T Y for having the English translation!! I follow the Bolshoi Ballet faithfully! Only the Best of The Best!!!
What a totally dedicated and excellent teacher he is. Pupils of his are fortunate indeed. It is only much later that they will realize just how fortunate they were.
This is such an interesting interview or demonstration. You can also see Tsiskaridze when he danced, what a brilliant executant! But he is also brilliant as a teacher. I know Russian teachers are stricter, a lot more strict, than American or British. The dancers have to have tough egos. So there are two schools of thought here.
An absolutely wonderful teacher. There is no way to pass on our art of classical dance without being totally demanding . of course one must understand the student but to achieve the perfection needed to be an artist each movement must be honed. I quite agree with the attitude of Semienova. Without a strong skeleton for technique it is useless to try to embeslish the movement and the expression. The students at the Vaganova Academy are so fortunate to have Nikolai Tsiskaridze to "scultpure" their technique and their mental conception of our art.
They must have been rehearsing for Polish Ball which I saw later and they were impeccable, like professional dancers. Discipline paid off. How beautifully Tsiskaridze danced in Bolshoy to that music at the end as Solor. He was amazing.
Sounds like the equivalent of one of those dragon law professors that have you quaking in your boots before every class, but when you go to take the Bar, you think, "Why, that's what Professor Bloodlust made us cut our baby teeth on!" Well, God bless all such good dragons...
I would appreciate what a great teacher/dancer he is, I sure would not look forward to class.....I had a math teacher like that once. No red to humiliate students.
ANNA ECHENIQUE No es mal trato. Se ve que no lo entiendes nada de ballet, de sacrificios de los bailarines. Para dar ese tipo de espectáculo- hay que trabajar duro.
Solamente es muy estricto. Eso requiere un buen bailarín de ballet!! No los está ni traumatizando ni haciendo realmente daño. Él mismo lo dijo aquí: al que no le grito, es porque no me interesa.
Mocking and psychological cruelty doesn't make these children dance better. These are the most gifted and ambitious of all children to start with; a clear explanation of their errors would make them improve quicker. Being strict is one thing, but being an authoritarian despot is another. All of this is excacerbated by the fact that Tsiskaridze is rector as well as teacher, making a complaint about his behavior virtually impossible. Just because cruelty is the way of the past doesn't mean it needs to be continued. Cruelty is not the only way to teach well.
But, as this was only a microcosm of what's happening there, he could have repeated problems with students who try to grandstand or go completely off script. One never knows.
Bolshoi axes dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze after acid row Published9 June 2013 Share Nikolai Tsiskaridze image captionTsiskaridze has denied he had anything to do with the attack on the Bolshoi's artistic director The Bolshoi has announced it will not renew the contract of veteran dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who has been in open conflict with the theatre since an acid attack on its artistic director. The dancer, who has been at the Bolshoi since 1992, is one of its top talents. But the 39-year-old sparked conflict when he accused bosses of using the attack on Sergei Filin to conduct a witch hunt against him. A spokeswoman said the dancer would leave at the end of the month. "I can confirm that yesterday Tsiskaridze was given notice that his fixed-term contracts will not be renewed. His contract runs out June 30," Katerina Novikova told Rossiya 24 on Saturday. She refused to give a reason for the decision. In an NTV television interview on Sunday, Tsiskaridze questioned the theatre's right to let him go. "To be honest, this is still not clear, because I'm on staff as a ballet artiste," he said. "When I was taken on, I joined the staff. I didn't sign any paper to be released from this. It's all very confusing." Earlier this year, the Bolshoi filed two reprimands against Tsiskaridze for giving unauthorised interviews after the attack on Filin in January. Under Russian law, multiple reprimands can be grounds for dismissal. Pavel Dmitrichenko, after his arrest and alleged confession for the acid attack on Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin image captionPavel Dmitrichenko was charged over the attack on Sergei Filin Tsiskaridze appealed and a Moscow court annulled one of the reprimands. In his outspoken interviews, he complained of corruption and called for the theatre's entire management to be sacked and for himself to be put in charge. It led to a tit-for-tat response from Bolshoi director Anatoly Iksanov, who suggested Tsiskaridze might have played a role in inciting the attack on Filin, which left him with severe burns to his face and fighting to save his sight. Tsiskaridze has denied having anything to do with the attack and insists the Bolshoi has been trying to drive him out. Soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two alleged accomplices have been charged in connection with the attack and are in jail awaiting trial. In March, Mr Dmitrichenko admitted to discussing the attack but denied ordering the use of acid. They face up to 12 years in prison if convicted. More on this story Star dancer sues Bolshoi ballet Published10 April 2013 Bolshoi dancer 'confesses' to attack Published6 March 2013 Trouble backstage at the Bolshoi Published8 February 2013
Mean? He is demanding and he describes what he wants from other people in very certain way. He gives them so much but in leu of extreme commitment. Mostly you can see that he is joking and a lot of students actually react with a smile on his comments. Also, this way of teaching is not only in Russia but in all post communist countries. For you it might seem harsh but those students got used to this style of teaching.
This is why Russian school is considered to be the best and purest in the world. And he doesn't seem mean at all, just demanding and very very funny! Irony is not being mean. I didn't see him telling his students they are worthless, idiots, hopeless etc. This would be mean. He believes in them. Telling them they do something wrong doesn't mean he's mean. He's just doing his best as a teacher.
strict trainin to Has nothing to do with tyranny. A ballet dancer is a learning process, where a lot of time has to be spent in the student. With attention, love, no verbal or physical aggression. Demolarizing an adolescent who is already struggling with himself in his own nature. Unfortunately, it fits in their culture. Create distant people without a sense of love but fear of everything and everyone, and sometimes great Dancers SHAME
What a wonderful documentary about Tsiskaridze he is my generations biggest star. I see a lot of complaining about his harsh teaching methods. He looks and sounds angry and he throws himself on the couch and he is a very theatrical person. BUT people it's ballet. And it's the Vaganova academy. He loves his students and they love and respects him immensely. I've had teachers at my ballet school, Royal Swedish ballet school (especially one) that had a stick that she poked and prodded us when she corrected. You won't get a top class ballet dancer without strict training. I had to finish my training before I reached professional level and would have loved having Tsiskaridze as my teacher.
@@irma777100 He is demanding and brutal; that does not equate to cruelty or abuse. Allegations of abuse are serious, and so far not one parent or student has accused Tsiskaridze of abuse. There are powerful people high up in the politics of Russian ballet, the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, of the Bolshoi Theatre who would do anything to kick Tsiskaridze out of the ballet circle. A bunch of people despise him, but still, not one complaint about the way he teaches. I don't know if you have some personal vendetta against him or you are misled by whatever sources you read or videos you watched, but Tsiskaridze does not abuse his students.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TSISKARIDZE DID?????????ASK THE BOLSOJ DIRECTOR!!!!
@@user-oy3wh9pr6z No but I love to hear what he did‼️ I heard rumors for years but it’s ballet and rumors are a million. Honestly I don’t trust Tsiskaridze he has something he’s hiding.
I am an English speaker but I understand Russian and I have listened to dozens of Tsiskaridze interviews. He is very soft spoken and extremely intelligent. This strict treatment of his students is something he does for their good, they have to respect him and it yields results. They adore him as they know he truly cares about them. It's called tough love and is necessary to teach discipline and prepare these kids for a very competitive world o ballet where they et yelled at all the time. Those who can't take it, don't make it. Yo have to be strong and tough to stay on top. Tsiskaridze beat many odds and stayed on top being a strong emotionally person even though there was a lot vulnerability abut him. He is the best and demands from his students to be the best they can be,. And when they perform well he praises them. They are so lucky to have him as a teacher and rector.
I saw few gradation and exam videos and they performed perfectly.
BytomGirl - Hi tomgirl! You are right on target as usual I’m reference to Nikolai Tsiskaridze! Hr is tops on all classical ballet! By the way, I came out alive from surgery with a new Pacemaker. So now I just have to,heal! Hoping you are having a nice holiday week! Peter.
That's nice to hear
I honestly fail to see how he’s abusive. I haven’t done ballet but studied music for quite a long and it’s really the same. Your teacher will scream at you, yell at you, interrupt you, burst out and grasp your hand to correct it or whatever. Maybe from outside it looks like abuse but when you’re there and you’re passionate about music (or ballet) it just connects with you. You understand that if they are being “rough” it’s because they’re enthusiastic about music/ballet, and more importantly, they see you’re giving them something interesting. Can get pretty emotional, true, but I guess that’s also what hooks you up: the day you get it right, you truly touch the sky.
Those who are not yelled at feel left out, his best students truly appreciate his occasional harshness because they know he cares and wants them to be the best. They love him as much as he loves them
Exactlyyyyy I used to have a very strict teacher but I never cried or anything, she made me the violin player that I am, she was so passionate.. even though she was very very harsh I cried when they told me that she had to leave the school to take care of her husband, I never cried during the lesson, I was happy for every correction, I wish that she would have stayed.. because she truly showed me how to play.. she showed me the passion... I loved it, I loved it so much that then I cried when she had to stop teaching. If you are passionate about something, you crave every correction possible
I think he is lovely. I had a Russian ballet teacher in the 1960's: she was hard on us, created amazing ballet concerts and we loved her. This man is a true artist in the best sense of the term.
I can't blame him for all the tantrums, your teachers (regardless of what subject they're teaching) are also human beings and it's ALL due to stress as well.
@@deenagara9151 I don't even think it's necessarily stress, it's also getting caught up in the moment. There's this music in the background and music can manipulate the mood and even if you interrupt to teach, you're probably still caught up in the momentum. Also a lot of footage show him yelling but the kids are actually laughing a little, so I don't think he's actually being that harsh. He might have a little bit of that angry-comedian style of talking.
NT's extraordinary dancing during his prime, was, to me, intoxicatingly beautiful. Yet even now, when he is demonstrating steps for his students, I am awed by the sheer beauty of his legs, the pointed foot, and the incredible arch of the achille's tendon. He has the most gorgeous long legs I've ever seen in a male ballet dancer. Incredible.
It is a giving...when one eats, sleeps, and devotes his entire life to ones profession, he will always become a master at his art! I know, because I did exactly that, as Nikolai his done! But, I started at age 11 (eleven) and I became a master of my technical skills by the time I was 25 years of age. Never once after that have I faltered! Yes, there is a small price to pay. For example, no social life hardly, and I was oblivious of what my peers were doing on a day to day basis. Long hours, lots of sweat and tears but... in the end, always came out of a situation of fast learning. Remember as I did; your children only know what a parent teaches them! And when one fails, NEVER, EVER give up! Keep trying and the rewards will always come about! Thanks a million for listening - God Bless Nikolai and his family!
What a wonderful teacher! The students are lucky to have him. Of course he's moody and theatrical; he's talented and creative! He has vision, and gifted people are always that emotionally invested. Anyone who complains needs to suck it up, buttercup! He obviously has great love for ballet and his students, as he said his door will always be open. How loving.
I saw these very boys during their exam, they performed perfectly. I was really impressed and it is largely due to Tsiskaridze's strict teaching... World of ballet is very competitive and if they can't take some yelling from choreographer or artistic director, they will not make it. They have to be strong and he is preparing them for it. He loves these students and praises them all the time when they do well. He is amazing teacher as he was a dancer in Bolshoy. These kids are lucky to have him.
Wonderful to have the English translation of NT's words, which have so much truth, intelligence and meaning. Wishing all his videos had English translation. He is a great dancer and a great thinker as well! He has so much to teach his students and the rest of us as well!
This is hysterical and reminds me of my first teachers! It is so true-- if you do not get critique-- you are not of "interest". It is over. Not a big deal. It teaches students to be strong. Ballet is a difficult art if you want it to be your profession.
So true about the "circus" arts currently in vogue in ballet. I just saw the Mariinsky dance ballets from Fokine last month. Truly breath taking.
In one of the videos about Nikolai someone told a story about him teaching a class and one of the girls fell and twisted her leg but continued dancing, he told her to stop, she wouldn't so he finally yelled at her to stop and when she did, he came to her and gave her a gentle hug. He had a good reason for that, when he was preparing for a show in Paris, he fell, his knee gave out. He got up and started again but fell again and this time they took his to the hospital where he had 10 surgeries and almost died from the staph infection. When he left a hospital after a month, everybody was sure he was never coming back and was never going to dance again, after a year he came back and was dancing again. He wanted to spare his student the same experience I guess. She wasn't listening the first time so sometimes the harsh treatment is necessary to teach them discipline. Tough love yields much better results at the end.
Heavy staphylococcus infections can produce cardiotoxins, and in the video of "Carmen" produced just four years after... I could see him fighting his way through the sequelae. It's subtle, but if you've been through anything of the kind, you see it. I have a slight arhythmia to this day from an infection far less severe than that.
Could you remember the name of the video?
No, it's been a while
@@BytomGirl oh...but can you remember if that person was speaking in english or russian and was it a program or not
I think it was in Russian, I watch all the Russian ones. But don't remember what kind of program it was,
Beautiful and touching. He has real affection for his students, no matter how severe he appears. I love to see the young dancers - they are lovely. And he finds all sorts of imperfections!
He was a fantastic dancer. He had it all all, body, mind and soul combined with a perfect technique, musicality and the "human aspect" of fully embodying every role he danced. Whenever I watch him dancing, I am amazed how absolutely flawless his technique is and how well he is portraying the part he is dancing. I see him as a formidable teacher. one who deeply cares about all aspects of the Art of Ballett but equally about the pupil he is teaching!!
Such an amazing man and teacher and dancer and artist! Truly a testament to the glory of Russian ballet!
Amen to that!
Nikolai is the most amazing of Dance Professionals!! I Love Svetlana Z. as well!! T Y for having the English translation!! I follow the Bolshoi Ballet faithfully! Only the Best of The Best!!!
What a totally dedicated and excellent teacher he is. Pupils of his are fortunate indeed. It is only much later that they will realize just how fortunate they were.
Thank you for giving us traduction!! 😍Love the strict, Discipline of Classical Ballet ❤️Russian Ballet ❤️
He’s the World’s best Dancer. Pure genius a God given talent.
Nikolai Tsiskaridze is wonderful person and excellent artist! All my best wishes to him!
He has amazing talent , Grace, truth, beauty, and sophisticated lovely charm,,,,,,,,, I just love him!
This is such an interesting interview or demonstration. You can also see Tsiskaridze when he danced, what a brilliant executant! But he is also brilliant as a teacher. I know Russian teachers are stricter, a lot more strict, than American or British. The dancers have to have tough egos. So there are two schools of thought here.
Wonderful description! We are so thankful that such first class teachers exist to contribute to this fine and beautiful tradition!
Thank you for the translation!!!!
An absolutely wonderful teacher. There is no way to pass on our art of classical dance without being totally demanding . of course one must understand the student but to achieve the perfection needed to be an artist each movement must be honed. I quite agree with the attitude of Semienova. Without a strong skeleton for technique it is useless to try to embeslish the movement and the expression. The students at the Vaganova Academy are so fortunate to have Nikolai Tsiskaridze to "scultpure" their technique and their mental conception of our art.
He’s one of the greatest dancers Russia has ever created, but he has the weirdest taste in shirts!
😂😂
He has the right to wear whatever shirts he wants.
They must have been rehearsing for Polish Ball which I saw later and they were impeccable, like professional dancers. Discipline paid off. How beautifully Tsiskaridze danced in Bolshoy to that music at the end as Solor. He was amazing.
Timestamp 13:35 Found myself liking the colours on the back of that top/t-shirt!
13.34 Ziskaridse is so right!!!!!!!!! Thank you to him and this film!
Who is the male dancer at 3:50? That is a breathtaking pic!
That is Vladimir Vasiliev rehearsing with Galina Ulanova, in Giselle I think.
1:45 - from which balet is that music?
To wstawka baletowa z opery "Rusłan i Ludmiła" M.Glinki
@@zx6ep bardzo dziękuję! :)
It would be better just to put English subtitles! Nice reportage.
It`s very good listensing to Ziskaridse.
great video! what is the music at the very end?
Solor's variation from act 3 of Bayadere
And rector Tsiskaridze was the best Solor Bolshoi has ever had
BytomGirl thank you!!!
@@neville592 My pleasure :)
Sounds like the equivalent of one of those dragon law professors that have you quaking in your boots before every class, but when you go to take the Bar, you think, "Why, that's what Professor Bloodlust made us cut our baby teeth on!" Well, God bless all such good dragons...
I would appreciate what a great teacher/dancer he is, I sure would not look forward to class.....I had a math teacher like that once. No red to humiliate students.
Es un histérico!!!! Mal trata todo el tiempo!!!! Nunca más podré verlo bailar luego de ver éstos vídeos!!nunca más!!!
ANNA ECHENIQUE No es mal trato. Se ve que no lo entiendes nada de ballet, de sacrificios de los bailarines. Para dar ese tipo de espectáculo- hay que trabajar duro.
Pero que tonta eres, por favor!
Solamente es muy estricto. Eso requiere un buen bailarín de ballet!!
No los está ni traumatizando ni haciendo realmente daño. Él mismo lo dijo aquí: al que no le grito, es porque no me interesa.
@@aloha5527 sí es mal trato, puedes revisar qué es maltrato psicólogico, antes de decir si es o no
@@espinatine tonta es un descalificativo considerado maltrato, y no lo digo yo, lo dicen los libros
Mocking and psychological cruelty doesn't make these children dance better. These are the most gifted and ambitious of all children to start with; a clear explanation of their errors would make them improve quicker. Being strict is one thing, but being an authoritarian despot is another. All of this is excacerbated by the fact that Tsiskaridze is rector as well as teacher, making a complaint about his behavior virtually impossible. Just because cruelty is the way of the past doesn't mean it needs to be continued. Cruelty is not the only way to teach well.
But, as this was only a microcosm of what's happening there, he could have repeated problems with students who try to grandstand or go completely off script. One never knows.
NIKOLAI LA MAGLIETTA ''MISSONI '' NON TI SALVA DALLO SPUTTANAMENTO!!!!!!
Grandes bailarines pero ......humanamente.......rozan lo siniestro.
NIKOLAI,TEACH TO YOUR STUDENT WHAT IS EDUCATION!!!!!!!!!ROBERTO BOLLE
Bolshoi axes dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze after acid row
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image captionTsiskaridze has denied he had anything to do with the attack on the Bolshoi's artistic director
The Bolshoi has announced it will not renew the contract of veteran dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who has been in open conflict with the theatre since an acid attack on its artistic director.
The dancer, who has been at the Bolshoi since 1992, is one of its top talents.
But the 39-year-old sparked conflict when he accused bosses of using the attack on Sergei Filin to conduct a witch hunt against him.
A spokeswoman said the dancer would leave at the end of the month.
"I can confirm that yesterday Tsiskaridze was given notice that his fixed-term contracts will not be renewed. His contract runs out June 30," Katerina Novikova told Rossiya 24 on Saturday.
She refused to give a reason for the decision.
In an NTV television interview on Sunday, Tsiskaridze questioned the theatre's right to let him go.
"To be honest, this is still not clear, because I'm on staff as a ballet artiste," he said.
"When I was taken on, I joined the staff. I didn't sign any paper to be released from this. It's all very confusing."
Earlier this year, the Bolshoi filed two reprimands against Tsiskaridze for giving unauthorised interviews after the attack on Filin in January.
Under Russian law, multiple reprimands can be grounds for dismissal.
Pavel Dmitrichenko, after his arrest and alleged confession for the acid attack on Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin
image captionPavel Dmitrichenko was charged over the attack on Sergei Filin
Tsiskaridze appealed and a Moscow court annulled one of the reprimands.
In his outspoken interviews, he complained of corruption and called for the theatre's entire management to be sacked and for himself to be put in charge.
It led to a tit-for-tat response from Bolshoi director Anatoly Iksanov, who suggested Tsiskaridze might have played a role in inciting the attack on Filin, which left him with severe burns to his face and fighting to save his sight.
Tsiskaridze has denied having anything to do with the attack and insists the Bolshoi has been trying to drive him out.
Soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two alleged accomplices have been charged in connection with the attack and are in jail awaiting trial.
In March, Mr Dmitrichenko admitted to discussing the attack but denied ordering the use of acid.
They face up to 12 years in prison if convicted.
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He would never get away with behavior like that in other countries. Why are Russian teachers so mean?
R1234 H5678 well, the students have no problem with him. And it's the best school in the world.
ImGray I know that it's the best school in the world. You can be demanding and tough. But being mean it's just not justified.
Mean? He is demanding and he describes what he wants from other people in very certain way. He gives them so much but in leu of extreme commitment. Mostly you can see that he is joking and a lot of students actually react with a smile on his comments. Also, this way of teaching is not only in Russia but in all post communist countries. For you it might seem harsh but those students got used to this style of teaching.
This is why Russian school is considered to be the best and purest in the world. And he doesn't seem mean at all, just demanding and very very funny! Irony is not being mean. I didn't see him telling his students they are worthless, idiots, hopeless etc. This would be mean. He believes in them. Telling them they do something wrong doesn't mean he's mean. He's just doing his best as a teacher.
You obviously don't know much about ballet... UK teachers are just as tough!
strict trainin to Has nothing to do with tyranny. A ballet dancer is a learning process, where a lot of time has to be spent in the student. With attention, love, no verbal or physical aggression. Demolarizing an adolescent who is already struggling with himself in his own nature. Unfortunately, it fits in their culture. Create distant people without a sense of love but fear of everything and everyone, and sometimes great Dancers SHAME
Demolarizing? This is ballet - not dentistry. Tsiskaridze is magnificent.
@@annastinehammersdottir1290 He is abusive to those childrens..SHAME SHAME SHAME
@@annastinehammersdottir1290 he can be magnificent as a ballet dancer but is not a good educator
@@annastinehammersdottir1290 HE IS NOT A GOOD EDUCATOR...BUT GOOD DANSER