"Class" Vaganova Academy documentary now on YouTube

[Yaffa]

A new documentary 'Class,' produced some months ago and broadcast on Russian TV last week, is now on YouTube at https://youtu.be/bz_Eg_OYZCs. I couldn't understand anything when it was originally broadcast, but it looks as though you can alter the YouTube settings so that the automatic Russian captions are translated to English.

 

[PS From the first couple of minutes I can only get a rough idea of what's being said...]

Edited November 12, 2018 by Yaffa

[linda.ballet]

Thanks for posting, I have wanted to see this for a while 😀

[squadron]

Thank you so much!  😃The auto-translate to English on youtube is proving useful

[swanprincess]

Sorry to sound dumb but how do you get auto translate on YouTube? I tried to enable subtitles, but it would only let me put Russian subtitles; there wasn’t an option for English translation 😥

[swanprincess]

Figured it out now! For anyone else struggling, the auto translate option will appear if you watch it on a laptop rather than a mobile device!

[Geoff]

21 hours ago, swanprincess said:

Figured it out now! For anyone else struggling, the auto translate option will appear if you watch it on a laptop rather than a mobile device!

 

Any chance of a step by step guide? I am on a laptop, and have now spent some time inside YouTube (and have tried Googling how to do this) but all I can find are ways to add captions one writes oneself. Help!

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by Geoff

[Jane S]

Geoff - at the bottom right hand corner of the picture there are 5 little symbols

 

1. click on the left hand one and a little red line appears underneath it

2. click on the next one along (the usual 'settings' symbol) and the third option down should say 'Russian autogenerated'

3. click on the arrow next to those words and choose the auto translate option

4. select English

 

... works for me anyway (on a desktop)

[Geoff]

37 minutes ago, Jane S said:

Geoff - at the bottom right hand corner of the picture there are 5 little symbols

 

Many thanks!

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by Geoff

[swanprincess]

The documentary is fascinating but the auto-translate is a bit dodgy!! For example in the opening scenes when the children are saying ‘Drastvoytye” (здравствуйте) the subtitles say ‘red’ when it actually means ‘hello’ 😂

[alison]

That's what you get for using a computer to do it  

[Yaffa]

melmoth.blog just posted a beautiful wordless video of the Vaganova Academy, taken by Vitaly Bezmennikov: https://www.tumblr.com/video/tsiskaridze/180441860237/250/

[Yaffa]

On 24/11/2018 at 18:29, Yaffa said:

melmoth.blog just posted a beautiful wordless video of the Vaganova Academy, taken by Vitaly Bezmennikov: https://www.tumblr.com/video/tsiskaridze/180441860237/250/

Actually the clip is beginning of a longer video interview of three students. Longer clip (in Russian) with translation by melmoth is at:

https://melmoth.co/2018/11/25/vaganova-ballet-academy-documentary/

 

[Yaffa]

By the way, for another very interesting video from last year, following students at  Vaganova and dancers in Russian ballet companies, see the 10 episode RT documentary, with subtitles in English: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_vnGAMIRY&list=PLBRLKmBip431gks0gI63B9CddM1aVsFih

 

Edited November 26, 2018 by Yaffa
for clarity