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Jan 1, 2016 · Osipenko was of different minds about paradoxes in the American national character. In America, “I like when I’m passing people and they say, ‘Hi! Good Morning!’ In one way Russian people are very closed. No one says hello to each other in a city.”
- Alla Shelest
- Nina Timofeeva
- Alla Osipenko
- Ekaterina Maximova
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Alla Shelest (Zarema) in Boris Assafiev's Bakhchisarai Fountain ballet. The Leningrad State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. / RIA Novosti Shelest demonstrated a brilliant talent for ballet that was obvious even when she was a schoolgirl. Everything about her was in harmony: her figure, her gift for mastering technique, and her face, which eas...
The State Academic Bolshoi Theater. Vladimir Vasiliev as Macbeth, Nina Timofeyeva as Lady Macbeth. / Alexander Makarov/RIA Novosti The Kirov Ballet had high hopes for Timofeeva, which is evidenced by the fact that in only the first year after her graduation from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet she was entrusted with the leading role in Swan ...
Alla Osipenko and Askold Makarov in the Coast of Hope ballet. The Leningrad State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. / RIA Novosti One of Vaganova's last students, Osipenko was a dazzling beauty and a model of grace. Her legs, however, had difficulty reaching the level of virtuosity for which the Soviet ballet school was famed. So much so, that ...
Bolshoi Ballet dancers Yekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasilyev rehearsing "Icarus", 1971. / Alexander Makarov/RIA Novosti It is difficult to name a ballerina whose fame could eclipse that of Maximova's. While still a schoolgirl, she was presented as a prodigy to both the Belgian queen and Harald Lander, an outstanding Danish choreographer. Immedi...
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, Osipenko moved to the US in the 1990s and worked with the Hartford Ballet Company in Connecticut. She eventually returned to St. Petersburg, Russia in 2000. She also has a longtime artistic relationship with the famed Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov and has appeared in a number of his films including the ...
Mar 12, 2016 · At age eighty-three, ex-prima ballerina Alla Osipenko is more renowned than ever. Video and youtube allow us to sample a talent that the West would experience live only infrequently during the existence of the Soviet Union.
fifteen years before I met her in 1998, Alla Osipenko’s name was already veiled in mystery, spoken with reverence by Soviet émigrés in New York. A prima ballerina of Leningrad’s Kirov ballet during the 1950s and ’60s, she was an outlaw, a dissident—politically, personally, and aesthetically.
Overview. Alla Osipenko. (b. 1932) Quick Reference. (b Leningrad, 16 Jun. 1932) Soviet dancer and teacher. She studied at the Leningrad Ballet School, graduating in 1950.
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Jan 1, 2016 · Alla Osipenko is one of history’s greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet state. At Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet, Osipenko’s lines, shapes, and movement both exemplified the venerable traditions of Russian ballet and projected those traditions into uncharted and experimental realms.
