Sunday, May 3, 2015

Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev, shared his memories of getting acquainted with the great dancer – TVNZ

The mythical Russian ballerina ballerina of the second half of the 20th century has left us today. With its beautiful name associated stellar time to the Bolshoi Theater, at that time – the flagship of the world of ballet, decorated with scenes of which she was a very long time. Schoolgirl Elizabeth Gerdt, Agrippina Vaganova and Shulamith Messerer – Maya came to the ballet is very early, and bid farewell to the stage it’s too late!

10 years ago, on the 80 anniversary of his number she performed brilliant Maurice Bejart “Ave. Maya “. The flowering of her unparalleled career came in the years when the ballerinas go already retired. In the Soviet Union we were very much afraid I will take many years to produce a dancer and daughter of the repressed parents abroad, and when she began to tour – the whole world knew about it.

She gave a standing ovation to Paris and New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Madrid Rim.Osobennostyu and her talent was not just the talent of the classical ballerina and actress in the ballets of Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Minkus, but all those new images that Maya has created on world and domestic stage – “Anna Karenina,” “The Seagull,” “The Lady with a dog, “” Phaedra, “” Madwoman of Chaillot “,” Mary Stuart “,” The disease Roses, “” Bolero. ” The Maya has found his ballerina not only Roland Petit Serge Lifar, and Maurice Bejart – long and passionately work with it. World ekstaziroval when he saw her in a magnificent miniature Fokine’s “The Dying Swan”, which Maya M. bissirovala three or four times, even in the age of 70!

For many years a strong friendship bound Maya with a wonderful Parisian couturier Pierre Cardin, for which she was the muse in the 1970s – 80s, after a short collaboration with Yves Saint Laurent.

A woman tremendous charisma, beauty, charm, intelligence, the will and strength of character, most of the life she has lived next to the wonderful Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, today reported all over the world the sad news of the sudden retirement at the age of 89 this brilliant actress and ballet dancer.

Recognized the world, Maya was in the 1980s the artistic director of the Ballet of Rome in Italy, and then the Spanish National Ballet Madrid. Awarded many awards and prizes for the world their true merits, the last 20 years of life Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin divided his life between country estate in Trakai in Lithuania, headquartered in Munich apartment on Tverskaya Street in Moscow.

Author two beautiful biographical books, the heroine of the great documentaries, Maya Plisetskaya in the Russian ballet of the 20th century could only share the glory with Anna Pavlova, but fortunately they were not contemporaries.

I was fortunate enough to know this legendary close ballerina. We met about 30 years ago in Paris, secular dinner at the Countess Jacqueline de Bogurdon, admirers of the Russian ballet, and take Assoluta immediately ordered my 3 sketch for Rome. Then, to work together on a play “Swan Lake” at the Opera Wiesbaden in Germany, and even part of the movie about the Maya for French TV, which starred Elizabeth Countess Kapnist, was filmed in my family estate in Lithuania, near the estates of Maya Mikhailovna and Rodion. Maya M. even gave me a gift a small part of his wardrobe couture dresses by Pierre Cardin and the famous quilted Chanel suit, she presented the Great Mademoiselle. Planned trip in May 2015 in Munich, I even arranged dinner at the Maya Mikhailovna, but fate ordered otherwise. Myth soar to the heavens! Amen! Ave, Maya!

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