Silver Ball 25.04.1999 (1999)

The issue is dedicated to the great Soviet ballerina Galina Ulanova.

In 1928, she graduated from the Vaganov Choreographic School and danced on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater for the first years of her career.

She spent the war years in Alma-Ata, and in 1944 she was transferred to the Bolshoi Theater, where she worked until the end of her life.

She herself would never have moved to Moscow, she did not like the capital and always felt like a stranger here.

After the move, her repertoire remained the same, for all the years in the Bolshoi Theater, she had only four premieres.

Nevertheless, the audience adored her.

Ulanova's dance fascinated with an amazing combination of fragility and strength, understatement and mystery, she had an incredible ability to ennoble people, always inspiring the viewer and making him think.

The last time Galina Sergeevna appeared on the stage in December 1960, then she brought all her unique art to the tutoring class.

She was a self-willed person, quite domineering and independent, never did what she did not want to do, just did not make a noise and never asked anyone for anything.

Malika Sabirova and Svetlana Adyrkhayeva, Nadezhda Gracheva and Nina Semizorova studied with her, and Ekaterina Maksimova, one of the most outstanding ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater, became her first student.

In this work, Ulanova learned a lot - what is the loyalty of students and what is betrayal-but she was silent and never talked about anything, the core of this unique human nature was dignity and pride.

The program includes fragments from the ballets "Swan Lake", "Bakhchisarai Fantan", "Giselle", "Red Poppy", "Chopiniana", "Romeo and Juliet", a miniature" Dying Swan", excerpts from classes in the class of Galina Ulanova and a documentary chronicle of different years.