Oh my! I've been away a few days and look what gem I missed. I just read a bio of Vaganova and she said that she developed her technique to accommodate what was happening in choreography. So certainly both Imperial and Soviet!
hi Sima - hope you enjoyed your few days away. that's so interesting that she developed her method to compliment developments in chore - i guess it's something a good teacher would try to do. i wonder if she was Imperial and Soviet (with an Imperial centre?) - worked within the new system as she could?
Sima Raft yes, i think that is right - it is relevant only if you let it be - easier said than done though. leading two parallel lives - when i lived in China work colleagues would invite me to their homes where they sloughed off their Mao suits - they were still wearing them at Beijing Uni in 1988 - and slipped into jeans and tee-shirts from the black market - nothing was said, as though a collective unspoken understanding.
Oh yes I know about that first hand! For the past thirty something years people have had double lives in Iran. Luckily in recent years it's become more don't ask don't tell. A lot less dangerous!
Sima Raft i may have mentioned a photographer friend was involved with a doco about women in Iran 'today' (though a few years back now) made by George Negus for ABC TV here - those who allowed the TV crew into their homes of course would be of a liberal outward-looking kind and not necessarily typical - the crew would travel with the covered women to their homes, where their clothes were changed and make-up applied. very much people living double lives.
I don't think she could be labeled as either "imperial" or "soviet". In her way of teaching you can see a lot of link to danish, french and italian schools, she herself says so in her book. There were also a lot of german teachers going in and out of st. petersbourg. She grabbed everything, mixed it in a comprehensive way to be teached and learned and modified what she thought was for the better. Always with the focus on ease of learning and preserving the art. I guess she can be considered the LINK between imperial and soviet, but she was one of a kind really. By the way, a documentary of Vaganova Academy released one or two months ago showed this same footage along with a few more glimpses... Could there be more ?
i read she was a very strong technician (hence 'queen of the variations') so i wonder what it was that made Petipa react to her the way he did. was it that she did not put such proficiency to good expressive use?
hi Tracy. a lawyer friend whose specialty is intellectual property tells me that copyright expires 50 after the death of the last major participants and cannot be passed on - things then go into the public domain. so i suspect you may be able to use this without license
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Valuable footage, indeed!
Oh my! I've been away a few days and look what gem I missed. I just read a bio of Vaganova and she said that she developed her technique to accommodate what was happening in choreography. So certainly both Imperial and Soviet!
hi Sima - hope you enjoyed your few days away. that's so interesting that she developed her method to compliment developments in chore - i guess it's something a good teacher would try to do. i wonder if she was Imperial and Soviet (with an Imperial centre?) - worked within the new system as she could?
Perhaps her genius was to make "the system" irrelevant to ballet.
Sima Raft yes, i think that is right - it is relevant only if you let it be - easier said than done though. leading two parallel lives - when i lived in China work colleagues would invite me to their homes where they sloughed off their Mao suits - they were still wearing them at Beijing Uni in 1988 - and slipped into jeans and tee-shirts from the black market - nothing was said, as though a collective unspoken understanding.
Oh yes I know about that first hand! For the past thirty something years people have had double lives in Iran. Luckily in recent years it's become more don't ask don't tell. A lot less dangerous!
Sima Raft i may have mentioned a photographer friend was involved with a doco about women in Iran 'today' (though a few years back now) made by George Negus for ABC TV here - those who allowed the TV crew into their homes of course would be of a liberal outward-looking kind and not necessarily typical - the crew would travel with the covered women to their homes, where their clothes were changed and make-up applied. very much people living double lives.
I don't think she could be labeled as either "imperial" or "soviet". In her way of teaching you can see a lot of link to danish, french and italian schools, she herself says so in her book. There were also a lot of german teachers going in and out of st. petersbourg. She grabbed everything, mixed it in a comprehensive way to be teached and learned and modified what she thought was for the better. Always with the focus on ease of learning and preserving the art. I guess she can be considered the LINK between imperial and soviet, but she was one of a kind really. By the way, a documentary of Vaganova Academy released one or two months ago showed this same footage along with a few more glimpses... Could there be more ?
l know ,petipa described her like that
i read she was a very strong technician (hence 'queen of the variations') so i wonder what it was that made Petipa react to her the way he did.
was it that she did not put such proficiency to good expressive use?
Hello, I would like to see if I can license a part of this film for a documentary feature. What is the best way to contact you? Thank you.
hi Tracy. a lawyer friend whose specialty is intellectual property tells me that copyright expires 50 after the death of the last major participants and cannot be passed on - things then go into the public domain. so i suspect you may be able to use this without license
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Claire de Lune - Debussy
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unlike George Balanchine who was Imperial throughout his whole life Aggrippina Vaganova was just the opposite : soviet !
yes that's right - i guess though that Vaganova worked within the Imperial system up till 1917 - Soviet from then on. :)
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