Galina Ulanova

Galina Ulanova Sergejewna (Russian Галина Сергеевна Уланова, scientific transliteration Galina Ulanova Sergeevna; born December 26 1909jul / January 8 1910greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † 21 March 1998 in Moscow) was a Russian prima ballerina.

Life

Galina Ulanova was the daughter of a solo dancer and a dancer and ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre. She began her training at the age of nine years at the ballet school of the theater connected. After her graduation in May 1928 she danced for the Ballet Company of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, later the Kirov Ballet. Soon after, she got her first solo performances. The audience loved them mainly because of their expressiveness, with the she managed to give the characters life. She played, for example, in 1932, Jeanne Drambalet of Vasily Wainonen The flames of Paris, in which the people of Paris in 1792 the revolution as choreography on stage to express brachte.1940 she dances Juliet in the Russian premiere of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

After several guest appearances, she moved in 1944 to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. She stopped the Bolshoi Ballet, even after their withdrawal as a dancer in 1963 connected as a ballet teacher.

In recognition of her services to her the title of Prima Ballerina Assoluta was awarded.

Galina Ulanova was married twice but had no children.

The city of Moscow had erected for the world- famous dancer in the Novodevichy Cemetery a tomb, on which it is shown in the role of Odette from the Swan Lake ballet.