Agrippina Vaganova

Agrippina Jakovlevna Vaganova (Russian Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова, scientific transliteration Agrippina Jakovlevna Vaganova; * 14 Junijul / June 26 1879greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † November 5, 1951 in Leningrad) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet teacher and the founder of the Vaganova method, which is a world basis for the training of dancers in classical ballet today.

Biography

Vaganova began in 1889 with her ​​ballet training at the Imperial Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. In 1915 she was ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1921 she retired from a career as a stage dancer and devoted himself from that time working as a ballet teacher for which she obtained in the following years in the Ballet area world famous. One of her students was the ballerina Galina Ulanova.

From 1934 to 1941 headed the Vaganova leading St Petersburg ballet school ( connected to the Kirov Ballet ), which was named after her in 1956, as well as an internationally renowned ballet competition in the city. As a ballet teacher she created named after her teaching system, which is one of the theoretical foundations for the ballet lessons of childhood world today.

Works

• Michael Schulze ( illustrations ): Fundamentals of the Classical Dance ( Original title: Osnovy klassičeskogo tanca, translated by Jochen disc ). 2nd edition. Henschel, Berlin 2009 ( German edition 1954), ISBN 978-3-89487-418-6.