~Vaganova 3oday The Preservation ofPedagogical Tradition CATHERINE E. PAWLICK University Press of Florida Gainesville — Tallahassee — Tampa - Boca Raton Pensacola — Orlando — Miami - Jacksonville ~ Ft Myers ~ Sarasota Contents 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 x — Illustrations.