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Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West."
The documentary film Force of Nature Natalia is a year-long portrayal of the life of Natalia Osipova, an accomplished dancer and principal of the Royal Ballet.The documentary covers her preparation for her fifth season as a principal dancer, her work with renowned contemporary choreographers, and provides access to her personal archive.
Polish National Ballet in Natalia Makarova's production of La Bayadère, Warsaw 2016. Photo by Ewa Krasucka. In 1974 Natalia Makarova mounted The Kingdom of the Shades for American Ballet Theatre in New York City, being the first staging of any part of La Bayadère in the United States. In 1980 Makarova staged her own version of the full-length ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Pavel Gerdt in La Bayadère ballet by the ballet master Marius Petipa and the composer Ludwig Minkus, 1900 This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigrated, and those ...
The cast included Natalia Makarova, Christine Andreas, George de la Peña, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Philip Arthur Ross, Betty Ann Grove and Lara Teeter. [7] Makarova won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical.
She then served as associate director until 1997. Among her students were Natalia Makarova, after the birth of Makarova's child, and Kyra Nichols. [4] Sassoon did not just work in San Francisco: she also conducted master classes for the Cincinnati Ballet and the Boston Ballet. She played the role of a ballet teacher in the 1984 film Impulse. [1 ...
This is a list of people who have been awarded the title prima ballerina, the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. " Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who is a female principal dancer.
[18] Baryshnikov also toured with ballet and modern dance companies around the world for 15 months. Several roles were created for him, including in Robbins's Opus 19: The Dreamer (1979), Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody (1980), and Robbins's Other Dances, with Natalia Makarova.