Ballerina Ulanova Galina: biography

A fragile, sickly, shy ballet dancer who does not like to dance. It is very difficult to recognize in this man the great, aerial, inimitable, talented Ulanova. Work, perseverance and dedication made of the "pale, sickly girl" era of Russian ballet.

Awards, worldwide fame, national love, as well as loneliness, sincerity, a strong sense of duty - all this is Galina Ulanova. A ballerina who lived in a difficult time and who conquered the hearts of contemporaries and descendants.

Parents

January 8, 1910 in the family of the Ulanova, the servants of the Mariinsky Theater, a daughter was born. The girl was called Galina. The head of the family Sergei Ulanov was an actor of the theater, but he graduated from a career as a ballet director. Galina Galina is a famous ballerina Ulanova (before Romanova's marriage) Maria. Soon after the birth of her daughter, Maria Fyodorovna devotes herself to pedagogical activity. Many well-known soloists came out from under her wing, including their daughter Galina Ulanova (ballerina).

Biography of the ballerina tells of the girl's difficult childhood. Often she recalled how hard it was for her parents to earn bread. In post-revolutionary Russia all was not easy to live, especially to creative people. The father agreed with the theaters to speak before the sessions for a nominal fee. In any weather, the parents, along with Galya, went on foot to the other end of the city to show the room in the unheated room. But the audience liked the Ulanova couple, their light and fascinating dance. Despite the conditions and payment, the artists fully laid out for the number, and then warmed up before the next session. The girl watched them, watched the movie and fell asleep in a cold room.

Vocation

From the very childhood she saw how difficult it was to be an artist of the ballet, and she did not want such a fate. As they say, it was written on the family that in the future Galina Ulanova is a ballerina. Biography of the daughter of ballet artists tells how the young Galya cried when her parents gave her to the ballet school.

At nine years before the girl opened the doors of the State Choreographic School. Her first teacher was Mom. Pupils loved Maria Feodorovna, considered her kind and cordial. But even this was not happy Galina Ulanova (ballerina).

The biography of the artist is full of memories in which she says how difficult it was for her to love the ballet. It was very difficult for everything to happen, there was not that lightness, airiness and fairy-tale that the viewer sees. On the other side of the ballet ballet is serious work, pain and overcoming of setbacks.

By the way, the mother was very strict and demanding in relation to her main student. The girl often cried and did not want to do, with all her heart she hated the ballet. But they did not consider another profession in the family, as well as the option that Galina might remain anonymous.

"I did not want to dance," - Ulanova (ballerina)

The biography of Galina Sergeyevna is filled with tragedy and loneliness. With all her heart she could not take classes, ballet drill. Even being famous, she lamented: "How can you love what is so difficult to give!" It is difficult in this profession to everyone and always, but the little girl Galya felt that she was the hardest. Perhaps it was so. The fact is that by nature the ballerina Ulanova is very shy and painful.

The burden of shyness Galina Sergeevna carried her whole life. At first she was not given answers at the board, then the interview seemed to her to be torture, and she even tried to avoid speaking in a small circle of colleagues. A vivid example is given by her work colleagues in the theater. Once, after a long absence of Galina Sergeevna, the whole staff organized a warm meeting for her. But even feeling her moral duty, the ballerina could not express her gratitude in words. Instead, she bought small bouquets and put everyone on a table or a music stand as a token of attention and gratitude. Ballerina Ulanova always believed that we should not speak, but act!

Confession

In her dreams, little Galya was never a ballerina, she was attracted to the sea (she always repeated the little girl: "I want to be a sailor boy!"). But the moral duty to parents forced her to devote herself to ballet. Her dislike and activity through her strength made her mother think about the correct choice of the future for her daughter. Persistence, purposefulness and natural plasticity every day "stroked" an ideal ballerina, and Maria Fyodorovna gained confidence in what she had done.

The party of Floriana in the "Sleeping Beauty" - the first role of Ulanova as a professional ballerina. Closed, modest and afraid of the public girl is very difficult to give every exit on the stage. And the first time swept through the cycle of fear.

A huge contribution to the development of professional skills of the ballerina was introduced by A. Ya. Vaganova. An outstanding choreographer was engaged with Ulanova long after the graduation from the school. Agrippina Yakovlevna was always looking for individuality in dance that would fit Galina Sergeevna, because she was very unlike the others. And this dissimilarity the choreographer tried to disclose, not hide.

Galina Ulanova began to receive the love of the audience from the first appearances on the stage. The ballerina was very strict about her work and was not satisfied with her for a long time.

"Swan Lake" made the nineteen-year-old Galina very famous. But the shy ballerina did not believe the audience and gradually despaired and was disappointed.

Crucial moment

Role, which opened the heart of Galina Sergeevna and let the ballet in it, was Giselle. It is curious that originally this party was supposed to be performed by another ballerina. Ulanova long tried on the role, studied the character, but, imbued with history, performed it amazingly. Giselle helped to understand Galina Sergeevna, that one of the main things in her work is the ability to reincarnate. At the same time, Ulanova's highlight was natural shyness and "principled" naturalness, they never let her put on her mask and give pompous emotions and feelings.

Then Ulanova began to love her roles, her heroines, to experience their lives, to give them new qualities. Perhaps the most memorable role of Galina Sergeevna is Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

The whole life of the outstanding Galina Ulanova is ballet. Brilliant images, inimitable performance, titanic work, the replacement of theaters and cities - all this was the life of a fragile and shy woman.

Interesting Facts

The life of a great ballerina is full of ups, perseverance and dedication. She wanted a different fate for herself. But, fortunately, the parents of Ulanova, her teachers considered in her what gave her happiness and the opportunity to us to learn about her talent.

Despite her fame and recognition of the audience and professionals around the world, Galina Sergeevna was endlessly alone. She married three times, she had no children of her own. After leaving the stage, she devoted herself to teaching. She managed to convey the secrets of her mastery to her students, but to outshine her is not destined for anyone.

In the Netherlands there is a sort of tulips "Ulanova". In Russia, the jubilee two-ruble coin was issued for the anniversary of Galina Sergeevna, in her honor a diamond was named.

In the Moscow apartment, where she lived, they made a museum of ballerina Galina Ulanova. And on the houses in which they lived, they placed memorial plaques.

In memory of Ulanova books, films, concerts are devoted. The great ballerina died in 1998, she was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.