By Catherine E. Pawlick
Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is respected because the visionary who first codified the Russian procedure of classical ballet education. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, based on impeccable procedure and centuries of culture, has a name for elite criteria, and its graduates contain Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Diana Vishneva. but the "Vaganova process" has come less than feedback in contemporary years.
during this soaking up quantity, Catherine Pawlick lines Vaganova's tale from her early years as a ballet scholar in tsarist Russia to her profession as a dancer with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet to her paintings as a pedagogue and choreographer. Pawlick then is going past biography to handle Vaganova's legacy at the present time, supplying the first-ever English translations of fundamental resource fabrics and exciting interviews with pedagogues and dancers from the Academy and the Mariinsky Ballet, together with a few who studied with Vaganova herself.
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