CLASS and METHOD of LYUDMILA KOVALEVA (VAGANOVA)

Lyudmila Valentinovna Kovaleva was born in 1940, was a student of the great teacher Nadezhda Bazarova and Natalia Kamkova, both students of A. Vaganova. She graduated in 1959 and danced in the Kirov Theatre (Mariinsky) until 1981. From 1982 to 1984 she studied at the pedagogical courses at the Leningrad Choreographic School (Vaganova Academy). She started teaching inmediately at lower levels and later at mid levels. In 1995 (10 years after she started teaching) she taught her first graduation class with Diana Vishneva as one of her students, and since then she is teacher of higher levels at the Vaganova Academy. She is considered one of the biggest teachers right now and a "living legend".
This small documentary has fragments of many videos:
First, the video "living and breathing ballet: ludmila kovaleva" uploaded by the official account of the Vaganova Academy:
• Living and breathing b...
Second, three videos uploaded by Maria Khoreva where she shows exercises at the barre, center, and pointe, which are most of them explicitly inspired by the classes of Lyudmila Kovaleva:
• Ballet Class at home f...
• Ballet Class at home i...
• Pointe class (stayhome...
And finally some fragments of the documentary "diana vishneva, rising star in st. petersburg" where many excerpts of a lesson of Lyudmila Kovaleva's first graduation class with Diana Vishneva can be seen:
• Diana Vishneva - Risin...
Adding up to this all the other footages already uploaded in this channel (of 1997, 2015 and 2019), it can be afirmed that L. Kovaleva's class has certain nuances that have persisted since her beginnings: lots of small exercises, highly dinamic, many dégagés, grands battements, développés, grands pliés in II position, jumps and pointes, as well as a remarkable and beautiful use of the body, head and arms.
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