Ulanova Galina Ballerina Biography

The country of the USSR from Giseli, Swan Lake, Bakhchisarai Fountain, Romeo and Juliet, The Dying Swan in its performance were crazy, ordinary soldiers and ballet will be crazy, outstanding composers and artists. She always kept coldly and detached. For this line, she was nicknamed the great dumb. Galina Ulanova was born on January 8 in St. Petersburg. Her father Sergey Nikolaevich was an actor and director of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, and mother, Maria Fedorovna, a soloist of the ballet of the same theater, a little later - an outstanding classical dance teacher.

On the same stage, the audience saw beautiful parties performed by Pyotr Nikolayevich Ulanov, Uncle Galina Ulanova. Father raised the girl, as he would grow a son - he took her for hunting, fishing. But from childhood, the future ballerina was surrounded by the atmosphere of the theater. She found out quite a girl how beautiful ballet was, and at the same time she realized how difficult the life of a ballet artist was.

Probably, it was pretty close to the truth. And I, hearing talk about the fact that I have to study and become a ballerina, thought with horror and despair: would I really have to work so much and never sleep? The decision of the parents to give the only daughter to the ballet school was justified. The reason was not at all in the desire to continue the tradition of the family.

Parents did not believe that the daughter of ballet actors must be a ballerina. But Galina was born for this - an amazingly subtle susceptibility to the beautiful, innate musicality, softness and grace of movements. In September, Galina Ulanova entered the State Choreographic School. As Galina Sergeevna recalled, in the future she no longer thought about changing the profession: “I was too small when I was brought to the school on Rossi Street.

Then there was no need to think about any other business. ” Once in a girl’s boarding school, Galya closed. At first, dance classes were associated with cold halls, hungry fainting of students and hard work. The first teacher of Galina Ulanova was Maria Fedorovna herself. Gale was nine years old; She was a timid and shy girl, very worried about separation from her home, so every morning, when her mother entered the class, she rushed to her with tears in her eyes.

She did not want to become a ballerina at all, she hated classes with all her heart. It is not easy to love what is difficult. And it was always difficult, it was all in our profession: either the leg hurts, then something does not work out in the dance ... Now I think how it is still alive so far, I don’t know! It was very difficult for her and due to natural shyness. She was lost when she had to speak in front of the audience, and the conditional ballet pantomime was not given to her at all - the “unit” was the most common assessment for this subject.

Then her teacher became Agrippina Vaganova. In the classroom, she became one of the first students. Young Galya Ulanova left the walls of the school on May 16, dancing in the final performance Sylphide from the ballet Shopenian. Years will pass - and in the image of the same sylphs at fifty years! Galina Ulanova's debut as a professional dancer took place on October 21.

She danced a batch of Florin in the "sleeping beauty." The great success that the first performances brought her did not turn her head, but, on the contrary, forced her to work hard on herself, improve equipment and acting. She trained so that by the end of classes, a towel was completely impregnated later, turning into a wet rag. Presenting the maximum requirements, she never missed classes, has always been punctual and pedantic, never once violating the regime.

Ulanova was not beautiful. The magic of her talent consisted in the striking spirituality of the dance, in its strict expressiveness and the rare coincidence with the tastes of the era. Her heroines were idols and ideals, not sex symbols.

Ulanova was immaculate, like snow. And it was this chastity that made it the queen. With great success in the year, her first performance in Lake Swan, but she herself again did not experience a sense of satisfaction from her work. Odette-Odillas in her performance improved from performance to the performance thanks to the painstaking and tireless work of the ballerina herself. Working on the role, Ulanova read a lot, improvised and reflected on images.

It was already her own system, which was based on “the promise of himself to fulfill this and that. This was my principle, the basis of my whole life. Such a raising will has become a habit and became a source of what is called my success, ”Galina Sergeevna recalled. A huge role in the fate of Ulanova was played by the head of the ballet troupe of the Kirov Theater Fedor Vasilievich Lopukhov.

The first years of performances seemed self -critical ballerina extremely unsuccessful. In fact, not everything went smoothly, but Fedor Vasilievich continued to believe in the talent of young Ulanova, entrusting her with the most diverse and complex party in technical terms. For the first time, she danced the main party in the year.Never in his life, Giselle did not see the famous ballerinas as Anna Pavlova or Tamara Karsavina, Galina Ulanova was practically left to herself and worked on the creation of the image, trusting her own intuition.

Absolutely new features appeared in her Gizel - a huge spiritual power of the image, its amazing integrity and greatness - all that was not before even the best dancers who had a chance to fulfill this party. This performance, with the exception of some small breaks, she danced throughout her creative life. By the time when the Bakhchisarai Fountan ballet appeared on the stage of the Kirov Theater, Ulanova had already gained her creative personality, so Maria Zakharov created the party, taking into account the characteristics of the performer.

Galina Ulanova endowed her Maria, touching and infinitely sad inner force, which is gradually becoming increasingly distinct behind the external submission and unrequitedness of the girl. Over time, her Maria became more and more implacable. And she managed to fill even the gentle image of Juliet by will and passion, becoming the first performer of this role on the stage of the Kirov Theater.

The image of Juliet is one of the brightest and most memorable in the work of Ulanova. Her regular partner on the stage of the Kirov Theater was Konstantin Sergeyev. The peak of their joint creativity was the ballet Romeo and Juliet - and the same ballet became its end. Having moved to Moscow from Leningrad after a break with Sergeyev, he preferred Ulanova Natalia Dudinskaya, who soon became the Queen of the Leningrad ballet, on the scene of the Bolshoi she remained the "Leningrad" ballerina.

Ulanova’s repertoire is surprisingly diverse. Young, gullible and impressionable Cinderella, a simple, modest Russian girl Parasha, poetry Chinese Tao Hoa, Maria, Coral, Juliet - complex psychological images, spiritualized and living characters. Over time, the pattern was noticed - the most successful roles were always in her dysfunction, when she had to fight fear or excitement, to force herself to renounce life problems and concentrate on the performance, and sometimes to overcome severe physical pain.

From the performance to the performance, the glory of Ulanova grew, but she continued to remain as self -critical and demanding of herself. If the rehearsal is scheduled at one hour, Ulanova stands at an hour completely ready, “heated”, collected, extremely attentive, ”recalled the choreographer Leonid Lavrovsky. Somehow she was asked the question of why she stopped dancing the Swan Lake, which she succeeded in so wonderful.

She answered simply: "I can’t dance worse than Ulanova." Due to the injury, she could no longer perform some technically complex movements that she had previously succeeded, but to replace them with other, simpler movements, did not consider worthy ... She had almost no close friends, she was emphasized even with the closest people. All her husbands Galina Ulanova and her close friends were much older than the artist: the handsome director Yuri Zavadsky, the artist of the Bolshoi Theater Vadim Ryndin, the outstanding artist Ivan Bersenev, the famous conductor of the Bolshoi Yuri Fayer.

She was accompanied by brilliant men, who primarily appreciated the rare talent and human uniqueness of the ballerina. Having parted with her husbands, she maintained a worthy relationship with them. A wreath with a laconic inscription: "Zavadsky - from Ulanova" sent to Zavadsky’s funeral. On May sixteenth, she entered the stage timid, shy and uncertain girl. On December of December twenty -ninth, she danced to Chopenian by the illustrious ballerina, whose path was dotted with honors and glory.

In the year, Galina Sergeevna began her activities as a reciter teacher. Teacher, do not repeat yourself in the student, by managing to reveal his natural data, his individuality. ” Ulanova also worked with the soloists of the Paris Opera, the Hamburg ballet, the Swedish royal ballet, the Australian ballet, and the artists of the ballet troupe of Japan.

The world perceived Galina Ulanova as an elevated ideal, as a beautiful dream of perfection and showed her his honors. The only balerin in her life was erected by monuments in St. Petersburg for a year, sculptor M. Anikushin and Stockholm for the year, sculptor E. In Holland, a variety of Tulips of Ulanova was bred. In France, the famous Playel Hall, after reconstruction, was opened by a performance in her honor.

None of the ballerinas had as many awards as Ulanova had: the People's Artist of the USSR, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, four times the laureate of the Stalin Prize, laureate of the Lenin Prize of the Year. She received the Anna Pavlova Paris Dance Academy Award, Oscar Parselli Prize "Life for the Dance" year. Ulanova was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts, awarded the commander order for merits in the field of art.

Galina Sergeevna Ulanova died on March 21 of the year.Twice the Hero of Socialist Labor, the laureate of the Stalinist prizes,,, and the Lenin Prize graduated from LHU as a student M. Romanova, A. The first performer of the parties: Juliet, Maria; Swan "Swan Lake", ballet. Vaganova, Masha; Raymond "Raymond", ballet. In the Bolshoi Theater. Lavrovsky; etc. The last stage performance in the USSR - partners of Ulanova: K.

Sergeev, A. Ermolaev, V.