Yana Cherepanova is a gifted 13-year-old student at St. Petersburg’s elite Vaganova Ballet Academy. Which is cool enough in its own right. But Yana is also the latest person to break the internet, thanks to the absolutely mind-boggling balance videos she’s been posting to Instagram. You guys: Just watch them. What. Yana Cherepanova 🐵 on […]

For the students at today’s Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, history reverberates within the very walls that surround them. The plaques announcing the graduating classes hang near the main stairwell on almost every floor. There’s Pavlova, class of 1899; Nijinsky, 1907; Balanchivadze, 1921; Ulanova, 1928; Nureyev, 1958; Makarova, 1959; Baryshnikov, 1967; and Vishneva, 1995. […]