Tatiana Legat Татьяна Легат (Tutor, Teacher and Honored Artist of Russia) and Yekaterina Borchenko Екатерина Борченко as “Odette”, backstage “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltzer Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Asaf Messerer Асаф Мессерер, revised by Mikhail Messerer Михаил Мессерер, stage and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Святлана Гайко
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 05:09
Madame Légat!
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David T. LeBlanc
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 10:34
Reading about her, Madame Legat seems like a vital link to the past of Russian ballet. I imagine she is particular and strict with the dancers, for their own benefit of course.
I love this quote from her: I think our corps de ballet is just about beginning to come into its own. The girls are so lithe, graceful, and energetic! Our girls have good form. I work hard on them, but without shouting. I go up to them, talk, and explain how I used to do it. And I feel that bit by bit I am winning them over. Being strict is all well and good, but you have to love them.”
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Gustavo Dalmasso
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 16:21
Hi David, I’m sorry that the Mikhailovsky Theater has erased the link that led us to Tatiana’s biography.
In the link below you can see all the photos about Tatiana, one of them is “Top 2” in the ranking of posts in this blog. WordPress is not Facebook, or Instagram, getting 500 “likes” or 1200 “votes” is very difficult. Most of the posts don’t exceed 250 likes.
Thank you very much for your contribution to this blog, have a nice weekend!
– https://balletthebestphotographs.wordpress.com/tag/tatiana-legat-%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%8f%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b0%d1%82/
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David T. LeBlanc
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 17:41
Gustavo, thanks for creating such a great resource. You give me such a wonderful opportunity to learn.
Hope you have a good weekend as well.
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Gustavo Dalmasso
Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 21:07
You’re welcome, it’s my pleasure!
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