melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Translation by melmoth.blog | Follow Mikhail on instagram | Photo by Anton Zemlyakov Ваше главное достижение? Тот факт, что Николай Максимович Цискаридзе меня не выгнал – я уже на выпускном курсе Академии русского балета им. А.Я. Вагановой. […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Maria Khoreva hardly needs an introduction. From her earliest days at Vaganova Ballet Academy, she emerged as the heir apparent to the title of the great institution’s next big star. Maria graduated in July, having […]
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It is my great pleasure to bring you an English translation of the interview Diana Vishneva gave to Svetlana Sachkova of Vogue Russia recently. The renowned prima ballerina, who has been based in New York for the majority of this year, spoke of her pregnancy, the birth of her son Rudolf, the return to fighting form and her plans for the future.
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Ervin Zagidullin graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy in July, having trained under Fethon Miozzi, and has since joined the crème de la crème of St Petersburg ballet in the Mariinsky Theatre’s corps de ballet. During his academic career, Ervin made something of a splash at several major ballet competitions. Most notably, he won third place at the 2016 Vaganova-PRIX and made it into the finals of this year’s Prix de Lausanne. Ervin’s key to success? Hard work and an unrelentingly positive attitude!
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Эрвин Загидуллин окончил Академию Русского Балета имени А.Я. Вагановой (класс Фетона Миоцци) в Июле этого года и был принят в труппу Мариинского театра. Эрвин – лауреат конкурса Vaganova-PRIX, участвовал во Всероссийском конкурсе “Русский балет” и прошел в финал Prix de Lausanne. Секрет его успеха? Труд и неустанный оптимизм! Интервью melmoth.blog | English Version | Инстаграм Эрвина Эрвин, расскажите, пожалуйста, как начался Ваш […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Regarded by many as one of the living legends of the ballet world, Professor Ludmila Valentinovna Kovaleva is one of Vaganova Ballet Academy’s oldest-serving teachers. Her graduates include Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Olga Esina and Kristina […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog Vaganova Ballet Academy professor Tatiana Udalenkova grew up in Leningrad (St Petersburg) during the Second World War and trained at Vaganova Ballet Academy during the siege. She shared her memories of those difficult years in an […]
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Upon graduating from Vaganova Ballet Academy in July, Oscar Frame found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, position. The young Brit received job offers from both the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi – a happy predicament very few Vaganova graduates, let alone foreign trainees, ever find themselves facing. After some deliberation, Frame settled on the Bolshoi, […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog My translation of Vladislav Lantratov’s interview with Hello!Russia. Lantratov speaks about “Nureyev” and the aftermath of the ballet’s sudden cancellation after the stage rehearsal on the 8th of July. The Bolshoi’s decision to pull the […]
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melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog For those of you who follow ballet news closely, Laura Fernandez-Gromova should hardly need an introduction. In 2016, the eighteen-year-old Swiss took the Prix de Lausanne ballet competition by storm. Laura bagged three awards: a coveted Apprenticeship […]
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