Professional Ballerina Reviews Ballet Scenes, from 'Black Swan' to 'Billy Elliot' | Vanity Fair

seeing anyone of legendary caliber as Julie Kent, review their craft with such openness, honesty, passion, and excitement is so awesome. I loved it. Thanks JK and VF :)

I kinda really wish they could've slipped the Mistake Waltz in there XD

Center stage is one of my very favorite movie!!

They couldn’t of added Center Stage ? Lol She was in it !

They couldn’t of added Center Stage for her to review lol 😂

Awwwwww, no original Suspiria?!

Great to listen to this! Thank you 🙏🏽

Wasn't she on Centerstage? The best ballet movie ever?

She speaks french well I think.

Center Stage is a cheesy teen dance film, but there are several things good about it. One of course is the dancing scenes. But it's also cool that the "villains" are pretty mild and realistic, as opposed to archdevils and ferocious psychos. Cooper isn't a bad guy really, just a tad insensitive at times.

If you do a part 2 could you have a look at Step Up please with Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan. I really enjoyed this.

Coll desk. I want the same !

Would have loved to see her opinion of the movie "Dancers" 1987ish.

I dont know anything about ballet and this left me really exited about all the movies of this list I hadn't already watched. They look really wonderful, all of this was truly a joy to learn about

THAT WAS SERGEI POLUNIN?????

With Mao i see the brush writing in his movements

The Red Shoes. Be still my heart. One of the most gorgeous movies ever made.

I'm blessed to have grown up in Houston with the benefit of seeing Li dance in person. He even performed for the Regional Dance Association Gala one year and at the after party, got out on the dance floor to do the hokey pokey with all of us along with his wife and kids!

I LOVE Center stage, its very good. Makes me wanna dance

Oooooo she's in Centrestage

Have not started this, it just showed up in my feed, but I am here for Billy Elliot. Loved that movie.

I get it yet also to be a professional dancers doesn't need the word just in front of it! Yes they did not get their description correct but all of you professional dancers out there don't just yourself.

Oh, I am ASHAMED it took me until Center Stage to realize she was the same dancer who was in it! (Yes, I am uncultured swine who doesn't follow professional ballet, especially not in the USA where I don't live, but I took ballet lessons for fun my whole childhood and loved that dumb movie.)

Center Stage is my guilty pleasure.

Wow, she looks not a second older than she did in "Centre Stage". What an amazing dancer. Such a shame they retire so early.

That was Kathleen Donahue, wasn’t it??

I'm so tickled to see Julie giving her input🥰

Is it bad that when she said "The Red Shoes" my mind went to Deku? Probably.

Billy Elliot is such a gem of a movie. How can one not love it.

jesus she is gorgeous now and then

Such a great artist! Just a small correction: the real location in white nights was the Lisbon São Carlos theater, even though they claim it's the Bolshoi.

Right, she didn't need to watch those clips, she already knew every ballet-related movie out there. And she consulted and starred in those movies, her expertise is levels above the usual 'expert reviewers'.

Thank you all commentariat and VF for introducing me to Julie Kent

Loved her in Center Stage! My absolute favorite movie!!

Save the last dance never struck me as particularly ballet

I adore Julie Kent and I love how she enjoys every movie on some level instead of just hating them all

Julie Kent's Le Corsaire is simply amazing! She is so beautiful and delicate... Just lovely

yUCK!

Of course Chi Cao is realistic, he was a principal dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet for 16 years and partnered with Nao Sakuma for a lot of that time. He’s incredible.

LOVE YA, JULIE!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this commentary! I love ballet, and when ballet meets film, there is so much more than dancing for the dancers, and so much more than filming for the directors. It's an art in and of itself, and far richer than just dancing or just movies alone. Now i have to go watch The Red Shoes again...

She is so beautiful inside and out

I love save the last dance when she says OH NO ha we all think it

Save The Last Dance shouldn't be considered a dance movie ... Unless it's to warn people of terrible attempts at dancing.

I recognized her immediately and its not because of her ballet career but because of Centerstage in 2000 as Kathleen Donahue. She still looks incredible.

thank you for crediting Sarah Lane! ♥ ♥

I came for the roast of "save the last dance", was not disappointed, and I'm leaving with way more knowledge. Thanks for the great vid

"Center Stage" is one of films that got me attending dozens of American Ballet Theater shows just so I could see Julie Kent and Ethan Stiefel perform; however, I bought the CD of ABT's "Swan Lake" and came to love so many other dancers in ABT, which eventually brought me to Misty Copeland. I've seen all my favorite ABT dancers perform. The film "The Company" w/Neve Campbell brought me to The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, whom I also adore as much as ABT. If you love dance, these movies will make you love it more.

I used to be obsessed with julie❤ she's still just as beautiful