In his first visit, in 1975, came, danced and won the Argentine public. It took only display his talent as a dancer. This is Maya Plisetskaya, who died yesterday in Munich, Germany, at age 89. He will be buried in Russia, as confirmed by the director of the Bolshoi theater, Vladimir Ourine.
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya was born on November 20, 1925 and three years entered the world of ballet at the School of Dance Moscow and, despite a difficult home environment (his father Mikhail Plisetski, Jewish, was executed on Stalin’s orders in 1938 and his mother, the actress Rachel Messerer, also Jewish, deported with her brother gulag) highlighted quickly at school Bolshoi Theatre, under the influence of his uncles Asaf and Sulamith Messerer, both dancers of the ballet of that theater.
“They arrested my father ‘says early in his memoirs. Something has been described countless times in literature, cinema, theater, but is terrible to live it. Unknown men. Big words. They rummage the house. They look for. My mother tearfully pregnant. My little frightened brother. My father wears shaking hands, because it is painful for us. The surprise of the neighbors. The words of the manager of the house. “It was best two shots hit them all, enemies of the people ‘”
It seemed that fate was adverse to curb their vocation, but no one foresaw that end load It forging of their character and strengthen its decisions.
In 1943, he joined the Bolshoi and became at 18 years in prima ballerina. Thus began his professional career with the performance of “The Dying Swan”.
He excelled quickly. With a perfect educational background, their interpretations adorned with unimaginable challenges and sensuality in Soviet dance. One night, Stalin decided to celebrate his birthday at the Bolshoi. “I was scared. Nerves gripped me and the floor looked like a skating rink. Looked steadily to the public for the head of the misfortune of my family, “he recalled the dancer in his memoirs.
Maya Plisetskaya dreamed of George Balanchine and Maurice Bejart,” inaccessible “for their hostility to tradition the “socialist realism”.
After years of veto, undertook international tours during which he visited countries like the United States, France, Britain, Italy (where he was director of the Ballet of the Rome Opera ), Argentina (acted on several occasions) and in Spain (where he led the National Dance Company). These tours allowed him to meet and collaborate with great personalities and get international recognition in the most important theaters.
he dared to break the Soviet routine by incorporating modern dance and working with choreographers Alberto Alonso, Béjart and Roland Petit, who created several pieces for her as Carmen, Isadora and rose malade.
The dreams realized
The dancer began to realize his dream in 1967 thanks to a meeting in Moscow with the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, authorized to create for her Carmen-suite because it came from a communist country. Her sultry version of the Roma was a scandal. The power is afraid
“It was the war.. I was accused of having betrayed classical dance Culture Minister said that Carmen would die I knew that she would die would be and Carmen survive”., He used repeat Plisetskaya. After Carmen , the stubborn Soviet society had trouble digesting, Maya came other provocations, erotic choreography by Béjart and Roland Petit ballets and her husband, the Russian composer Rodion Shcherdin, was created based in works of Russian classics.
In recent ballets also earned a “Queen of the Air”, as it was dubbed, harsh criticism from conservative environments for those characters Anna Karenina Tolstoy, and The Lady with the Dog , Chekhov, were not written to be danced
But also reaped praise from colleagues and choreographers. “In Plisetskaya all combine: the natural talent, the high technical quality, perfectly proportioned figure and outstanding qualities as an actress, “says the famous dancer and choreographer Mikhail Lavrovski
On his 80th birthday, in 2005, he played. in the Kremlin Ave Maya who dedicated the French choreographer Maurice Bejart, capping a magic with classical dancers worldwide gala, the Shaolin monks, the orchestra Alexandrov Russian army and the king of flamenco Joaquin Cortes.
“Maya Plisetskaya assimilated a great tradition, digested and recycled, reaching freedom. Whatever dance, I feel it a great life force, sensuality and, above all, modernity, “it said at the time Maurice Béjart.
For the choreographer, Maya Plisetskaya was” Dance last living legend. “” The main thing is to be an artist and understand why you’re on stage. Not enough to lift your leg, “said the dancer to explain the secret of his success.
He received numerous international awards, including the Legion of Honor of France (1986), the gold medal of the Fine Arts in 1991, the Russian Order of Merit in 2000 and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts (2005). He holds the title of “prima ballerina”, the most prestigious in the world of dance.
In September 1983, traveled with the Bolshoi for the first time to Spain and in 1987 accepted the leadership of the National Ballet of Spain, then, in 1993, adopted the citizenship of that country. He was married to the German composer Rodion Shchedrin which, along with other personalities of classical music, was preparing a feature tribute to when he turned 90 years within six months.
During his time in front of the national ballet, he represented works like Mary Stuart and remained in the post until 1990,
In 1994 founded the Imperial Ballet and under his direction Russian Dance is represented, Silfide and Gopak .
In recent years he had dedicated more dedication to teach and receive tributes, with exceptional performances, as expected from a grande dame of ballet.
The artistic and human dimension of Plisetskaya
Maximiliano Guerra
dancer
“In addition to being a big star and a leader of a whole’peoca he had an emphasis on the very beautiful work. He was very charismatic. It was a great artist. He had magic, angel. In the first test I had with her, we started riding choreography. She held my hand and I had to lay his head on it. I was mesmerized with that look. She was very generous too. He had the security of knowing who it was. And so he did things. But he treated others as a colleague, without ningunear. If it was a great artist, he was also by those human gestures. Her Carmen will never forget me again. It is a big gap. Especially for new generacioens, who could not see it. There is an artistic work is linked to the search, emotion. That is a time consuming job. She was a model of that search. “
Julio Bocca
dancer
” Maya has It was a great artist and a great person. We share the stage when she ran the ballet of Spain. It was a wonderful experience to be unrepeatable. The truth is that when I found I spent a lot of shared and fond memories. “
Pierre Cardin
Fashion Designer
“Maya is the highest technology of nature and its fundamental principle is the eternal movement.”
Mikhail Shvydkoi
Former Minister of Culture of Russia
“It’s a very painful loss. Plisetskaya was a wonderful and passionate dancer and actriz.Rusia mourning today for this great woman and artist. “.
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