Farewell to a legend of dance: Maya Plisetskaya died – Ambito.com

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The Russian ballerina was 89

 Maya Plisetskaya charmed the world with their performances and their strange sensual beauty
   

Russia mourns Maya Plisetskaya, one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century, who charmed the world with his sensual performances and its strange beauty. Plisetskaya, the free spirit challenged the boundaries of art from the Soviet era, died of a heart attack in Munich, at age 89.

Despite his advanced age, the Russian ballet icon continued to act with energy. His death caused a stir at the Bolshoi Theatre, where he planned to celebrate his 90th birthday . “Plisetskaya is forever,” he said from the stage, where the artist danced when the barrier was over sixty years. “She was, she is and she will be.”

A dancer, who sacrificed her maternity ballet, survived her husband, the composer Rodion Shchedrin , author of many of his ballets.

The great ballet and dance lovers around the world expressed their appreciation to the redheaded dancer with big eyes and long legs. “The star Maya Plisetskaya Mikhailovna, who became the embodiment of the true essence of the art of ballet for generations of viewers around the world with its refined beauty and majesty, now shine from heaven,” he said in a statement the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.

“The era of the great legends of Ballet comes to an end,” he wrote on Facebook ballerina Diana Vishneva. Ballet star Mikhail Barshnikov referred to her as “one of the greatest dancers of our time.”

Among his most acclaimed performances include his roles in “Carmen”, “Anna Karenina”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “Bolero”, a hymn to eroticism, who played 50 years.

The muse of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin was born into a Jewish family in Moscow on

November 20, 1925. His father, an engineer, was executed by Stalin’s regime for being considered ” enemy of the people “and his mother, an actress, was accused of treason and sent to a labor camp. These experiences marked the dancer, famous for their candor

“She was a person ‘drawback’: dancing always said what he thought and felt.”, Said from the Bolshoi Theater in a statement, in the who described it as a “symbol of resistance against the narrowness and order of Soviet arts”

The long career of controversial episodes lived Plisetskaya. in 1967, his sexy performance in “Carmen” , written for her by the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, part sparked much controversy.

“‘Carmen’, where every gesture, every look, every movement had its meaning, was unlike any other ballet … The Soviet Union was not prepared for this kind of choreography,” Plisetskaya said.

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