~Vaganova 3oday
The Preservation ofPedagogical Tradition
CATHERINE E. PAWLICK
University Press of Florida
Gainesville — Tallahassee — Tampa - Boca Raton
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List of Illustrations
Author's Note x{ Preface
Acknowledgments xva Chronological History of the Vaganova Academy
of Russian Ballet x\x
Chronology ofAgrippina Vaganova s Life xxv
Introduction
1. the Dancer Vaganova 5
2. the Teacher Vaganova 29
Individuality of Supporter Reform: The 1920s 44 The Results of Her Efforts 49 The and 1930s Dramballet 52 Her Contemporaries' Recollections 60
Methodology Department 71
Her 3. Vaganova Today: Students 75
The Role of Pedagogue 75
Preserving Tradition 90 A Shift in Aesthetics 99
Emotion and Soul 113 A Faster Pace: The Twenty-First Century 119 The Repertoire 124
One Pedagogue; One Ballerina 130
The Changing Audience 132
Two Petersburg Ballerinas: Lopatkina and Chistiakova . . .135
The Ballerina: Uliana . Quintessential Petersburg Lopatkina . i$i A Cultural Catastrophe 160
Altynai Asylmuratova—Artistic Director, Vaganova Academy . . 167
Conclusion 179
Notes 183
Bibliography 191
Index 197 Illustrations
Frontispiece. Agrippina Vaganova as a young woman
Vaganova in Chopiniana 18
Vaganova as Kitri in Don Quixote 24
Agrippina Vaganova teaching class at the Leningrad Choreographic Institute 32
Vaganova in 1935 37
Vaganova with her students in the studios of the Choreographic Institute, later renamed the Vaganova Academy in her honor 42
Irina Trofimova, present day with her students 55
Alia Osipenko as the Mistress of the Copper Mountain from The Stone Flower 67
Alia Osipenko as the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty 68
Alia Osipenko as Odette in Swan Lake 68
Galina Kekisheva in the role of Pasquale, early in her career 78
Gabriela Komleva today 81
Gabriela Komleva as the Firebird 81
Gabriela Komleva as Raymonda 82
Tatiana Terekhova as Kitri from Don Quixote 83
Terekhova as Kitri, 1987 84
Ninella Kurgapkina coaching Tatiana Terekhova 84
ix Rudolf Nureyey Zhanna Ayupova, and Ninella ICurgapkina 86
Ninella ICurgapkina in 1957 as Kitri 87
Ninella Kurgapkinas jubilee in 2009 88
Duprati study, figure 2 105
Vaganova Academy students today 107
Vaganova Academy student Rristina Shapran at the barre 108
Gennadi Seliutski! in the role ofAlbrecht 111
Irina Trofimova coaching a student 133
Irina Chistiakova as Kitri from Don Quixote 136
Irina Chistiakova and Farukh Ruzimatov 137
Irina Chistiakova as Giselle 253
Uliana Lopatkina in Swan Lake 153
Uliana Lopatkina in Giselle 154
Uliana Lopatkina as Raymonda with Danila Korsuntsev as Jean de
Brienne 154
Uliana Lopatkina in The Dying Swan 138
Sergey Vikulov as Siegfried in Swan Lake 161
Artistic director of the Vaganova Academy, Altynai Asylmuratova 168
Asylmuratova as Medora in Le Corsaire 169
Asylmuratova in the studios 170
Asylmuratova backstage with students 171
Vaganova Academy student 177
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