6/9 35th Mezentseva Birthday Semenov Kirov Mariinsky Class Zaklinsky Kulik Pankova Vaziev Vorontsova

This 9 part video is dedicated to two youtube viewers, Bnesque and the sister of Vitaly Tsvetkov. Bnesque is drowning in tears over the lost Ketinoa videos and she keeps making me cry. I had to find a way to stop all the crying and I found it (to be detailed below). The other youtube viewer is the sister of Vitaly Tsvetkov, who is shown often in this video. Tragically, Vitaly died before he reached the age of 50.
I found my time machine and went back to November 8, 1987. I arrived in Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg, in time to celebrate the 35th birthday of Galina Mezentseva . So what did she do on her 35th birthday? She took class with Vladilen Semenov , who some might know as Mr. Kolpakaova . His wife, Irina Kolpakova , came toward the end of this class and worked with Galina as Odile from Swan Lake . Unfortunately, my time machine did not allow me to bring new technology to 1987, so I could only use 22 year old video equipment, in relation to 2009.
THIS IS A YOUTUBE FIRST. NEVER SEEN BEFORE. Eat your heart out Ketinoa. Even you did not have a 90 minute Kirov company class and focusing primarily on the birthday girl.
While Mezentseva was the main attraction, she did have some nice classmates. At the barre, she was standing in between Ravil Bagautdinov and Vitaly Tsvetkov. Both Ravil and Vitaly are fathers of dancers in the Mariinsky Ballet in 2009. Ilmira Bagautdinova and Alexander Tsvetkov are their children. Ilmiras mother, Olga Vtorushina, danced with Baryshnikov as her partner. Alexanders mother, Margarita Zenina, danced many of the cute roles, such as the Amor in Don Quixote and Little Red Riding Hood in Sleeping Beauty. There were two other dancers in this class with children in the current Mariinsky company. Evgeny Neff and Alexander Kurkov both have sons in the company. Both sons have the name of Alexander. So if you see the current dancer, Alexander Kurkov, do not get fooled. He did not find the Fountain of Youth. He is not his father. I think that Svetlana Efremova, who danced with Yuri Soloviev , is Alexander Neffs mother. One final current Mariinsky dancer to mention is Vera Garbuz , who is the daughter of Andrei Garbuz , who was briefly shown at the barre.
Other dancers shown include Konstantin Zaklinsky , Marat Daukayev , Makhar Vaziev , Alexander Lunyov , Eldar Aliev , Andrei Bosov , Elena Evteyeva , Margarita Kulik , Elena Pankova , Natalia Bolshakova and Irina Sitnikova, mother of Ivan Sitnikov in the Mariinsky Ballet . My final name to mention is Elena Vorontsova , the star of the Children of Theatre Street movie. Even Ketinoa was convinced that the Ketinoa collection contained no class videos of Vorontsova as a Kirov Ballet dancer. Well eat your heart out again Ketinoa. I have Vorontsova in class.
I enjoyed my day on Galinas 35th birthday and now I am crying a lot. Much of what I said was in fun, but the tears do show how much this video means to me. It is very special to me.

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[Pearlaceous]

Is that Pankova wearing the blue short pantalons and stripy top? She was a big favourite of mine - beautiful physique and lovely technique.

[russianballetvideo]

Yes. She and Kulik were always together in this class and talking to each other.

[Pearlaceous]

Woah - that was quick! Thank you so much and it is lovely to see you again! This is a great class! I love Pankova' s lightness and grace - another one who was under-rated in my opinion. Did she ever dance Odette/Odile?

[russianballetvideo]

I do not know. She was always doing the pas de trois.

[sangfroidjen]

Thanks for the wonderful video. I love Margarita Kulik, she has an effervescent quality to her dancing. Is she in any capacity of teaching e.g. still involved in ballet? I really missed that video of Kulik rehearsing Walpurgis Night solo.

[russianballetvideo]

She supposedly teaches in Korea with her husband, Vladimir Kim, also an ex-Kirov dancer. They were both at Varna in 1983, she winning gold, he winning bronze(maybe he won silver)

[murzik123456]

This is pure gold! Thank you!

[pediatrapaola]

@russianballetvideo once saw kim in italy did arlequinade,but was not particulary impressed by him.

[pediatrapaola]

@Pearlaceous DID YOU NOTICED HOW EASILY LUNJOV PERFORMED TRIPLES?

[raulishnikov]

not only triple but with arms in 3rd position wich is considerably harder...

[Consofdance]

Thank you for the video,

it was great to see Mahar V.

and Sasha lunev

also Jenia Neff what a great male dancers!

[pediatrapaola]

did you noticev lunjov doing triple twice?

[pediatrapaola]

wow triple twice

[Bnesque]

I know she was. But I really love her musicality here>

And Mezentseva finally begins to do Odette variation. This is great!