Tatjana Gsovsky
Tatjana Gsovsky (Russian Татьяна Николаевна Гзовская / Tatiana Nikolaevna Gsowskaja, born Issatschenko Исаченко; born March 18, 1901 in Moscow, † September 29, 1993 in Berlin) was an internationally renowned Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet mistress.
Life
Tatjana Issatschenko studied in Moscow first art history and ballet in the studio of Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), and later with L. Novikov, Matyatin, Kirsanowa, O. Preobrajenska and in the garden city Hellerau near Dresden.
In Krasnodar ( Krasnodar region, south Russia ), she was named after the October Revolution, a ballet mistress. There she met and married her colleagues, dancer Victor Gsovsky. Both emigrated in 1924 from the Soviet Union to Berlin. Since 1928, the couple in Berlin led together a ballet school.
After the Second World War, in the years 1945 to 1951, she was ballet mistress at the Berlin State Opera, the Berlin State Ballet built on a completely new and celebrated great successes. She was engaged from 1952 to 1953 as a ballet master at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires ( Argentina) Then, from 1953 to 1966 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and from 1959 to 1966 at the same time. At the opera in Frankfurt am Main
In September 1955 Gsovsky founded the touring troupe Berlin ballet, modern dance theater with a classical base, with which she toured throughout Europe.
Tatjana Gsovsky defined classical dance new. For 20 years dominated their choreographic creations the German dance scene. She created numerous choreographies, which are received in the history of ballet. Gsovskys works combined classical ballet, elements of expressionist dance and insights of psychology to a forward -looking synthesis. She worked for their creations along with the avant-garde composers of their time - and Others Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze, Boris Blacher, Max Baumann and Gislher adhesive.
She received an honorary grave in the state-owned forest cemetery at Zehlendorf Nikolasee, Wasgensteig, in the Berlin district of Steglitz- Zehlendorf.
Honors
- Berlin Art Prize of the Academy of the Arts ( Berlin) ( "Berlin Art Prize - Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948 " ) of the section Performing Arts (1954 )
- Member of the Academy of the Arts ( Berlin) ( 1955)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st class (1969 )
- Honorary Professor (20 May 1976)
- German Dance Award (1983 )
- Honorary Member ( Honorary President ) of the German Academy of Dance, Cologne ( 1987)
- Merit of the State of Berlin ( 16 December 1992 )