Galina Ulanova Teaching

[oldoperafan]

This is lovely, thank you. The commitment expressed in her face.

I worry about the line of instruction stopping with Lunkina (who was coached by Maximova - although she was not th eonly one but you don't hear about the others).

[nickwallacesmith]

hi oldoperafan - yes, so much gets lost when the line is broken and things cease to get passed on - things that simply are never recorded in any other way.

[helydt]

Baryshnikov was still a student in 64, would have been 17, so yes this performance is more the assured professional - but in 64 it was all there technically - and all the more exciting because of his age... 

[nickwallacesmith]

hi helydt - and he started training late (i'm reading on several sites that he began at 12 in 1960 - can this be right?) so you literally saw him first the the very beginning of his career - lucky you!

[helydt]

I also saw Baryshnikov win the junior gold at Varna in 64 - and - I'd forgotten - Ulanova was chair of the jury that year and we saw her coming in before the performances every night...

[nickwallacesmith]

hi helydt - that's very interesting! can you say how had the performance changed from 64 to 69 - a five years is a long time in the life of a dancer, especially at that age.

[helydt]

How wonderful! Thank you!

She is coaching first a dancer (I cannot identify) probably in Don Quixot, then Maximova and Vassiliev in Giselle. I was lucky enough to see them both when very young at the Varna International competion. I only saw Ulanova in a Russian film of Giselle in the 60s...

Yes, she was the greatest of them all - dance embodied!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi helydt - lucky to have seen Maximova and Vassiliev when they were young! i saw them in Giselle in Paris when the Bolshoi visited in the early 70s - magic, especially Maximova in act 2. Ulanova was THE ballerina - sadly she was in London well before my theatre going days :<<

[SuperLuckydream]

I love "backstage" posts! Thanks a lot!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi SuperLuckydream - not sure what it is but i love them too - like getting cloer to the person than the stage

[melgoza0721]

ulanova was coached to maximova????

[nickwallacesmith]

@melgoza0721 - yes, she was a great promoter of maximova - almost saw her as her successor in Giselle - i was lucky to see her and vassilev in milan in the early 70s - as a kid - wonderful, really

[siempremarisol]

@nickwallacesmith she was the greattest of all

[nickwallacesmith]

hi siempremarisol - definitive in so many roles - just wish i'd seen her on stage but thank goodness for film!

[ravensun77]

i have this music (a short piece of course) on my phone as a rington and i like iti so much but i never knew the author. thanks to you now i know

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ravensun77 - glad to be able to help

best, nick

[ravensun77]

Hello

what is the name of the song?

[nickwallacesmith]

hi savensun77

it's called 'Trois Gymnopédies' and is by Erik Satie

beautiful ethereal music isn't it

[nickwallacesmith]

hi PIPZZZ02

yes, that's a very nice sequence to watch Ulanova in

she's so expressive as a teacher - and would have been ideal to learn from

[PIPZZZ02]

After this I watched Ulanova in the waltz from Les Sylphides. Perfect to go from one to the other and to see the same extraordinary, fluid grace.

Thanks for posting.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi morinoroba

yes and she seems so focused on the students - such caring and involved intensity

and is so good at demonstrating a movement or an expression - would love to have had a class with her

[morinoroba]

Really her movements are so graceful......!