Galina Ulanova Teaching

This footage shows the great Galina Ulanova teaching, perhaps in the 1980s.

As much as anything else it's riveting for her exquisite porte de bras, seen when she demonstrates a movement.

There is also a brief appearance of Vladimir Vasiliev rehearsing.

The music I've added as the audio is Erik Satie's 'Trois Gymnopédies'

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Film & Animation

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• Galina Ulanova
• Vladimir Vasiliev
• ballet

[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.

[SuperLuckydream]

I love "backstage" posts! Thanks a lot!

[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 :<<

[nickwallacesmith]

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

[siempremarisol]

@nickwallacesmith she was the greattest of all