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- Sofia Golovkina was a Bolshoi principal ballerina that has only just come onto my radar. I suspect this invisibility outside Russia has in part been due to her being a Soviet era dancer, being an exponent of the sometime acrobatic style of that period and appearing in propaganda-driven ballets.
On retiring from the stage, Golovkina turned to teaching, with her most famous student being Natalia Bessmertnova. She became director of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet School, a position she held for 41 years.
Here are four little segments of footage of her in performance, beginning with a solo from ‘Raymonda’.
The music for the pas de deux music (waltz) is from 'Die Fledermaus' - originally an operetta, music composed by Johann Strauss II. This information comes from TheBallet1 who kindly commented this to us. Joan Katsi tells us that her partner here is Pyotr Gysev.
There's not a lot around the net about Sofia Golovkina - does anyone know a little about this ballerina?
Enjoy!
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I loved this - and enjoy many of these Soviet era concert numbers. They speak to my soul much more clearly than contemporary choreography.
i didn't know much about her till i saw this footage and started reading about her
Ожившая фарфоровая статуэтка. Пластика завораживает. О технике просто не думаешь, такое совершенство! Смотрел бы да смотрел. Есть ещё что то? Может целый спектакль? Просто совершенство!
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again bless you for posting these rarest moments of this exquisite art form, sigh to spend every night at the ballet....Namaste
my pleasure anon anon :)
she has great technique, would run rings around many today! thanks Alex love your work :)
+TheBallet1 hi! yes, i was surprised she was not more well known outside what was the USSR - but there is probably at least part of the answer ... the closed nature of Soviet Russia. glad you're liking what i'm dredging up! :)
She came to Jackson Mississippi I think in 1982 and 1986 (not sure) and directed the two week school that was held during the competition; I remember watching her teach class.
2:41. Как элегантно Головкина исполняет монолог Никии
What a fabulous dancer. She sure can move! I did not know her which is not surprising as you say. It's just lovely how you dig things up for us!
+Sima Raft
yes, she has a great fast attack. i was reading Baryshnikov saying a dancer only only to move a hand or make a step and s/he has identified her/himself - so me me it's interesting to see (or unearth) new people to see something specific and as yet seen by me.
Thank you for this! Love all your videos.
+Michael Halloran hi! really glad you like what i'm uploading! i try to put up a mix of dance and other things - guess i have a lot of disconnected interest - LOL!!!
She's quite lovely and should be as well known as Ulanova. Beautiful port de bras and HANDS. And I meant to capitalize!
yes, sadly the politics of ballet can dictate there is one ballerina most recognised in a company, like Fonteyn at the Royal Ballet
she is more famous as long time director of moscow bolshoi ballet accademy ,she led it for long time
+pediatrapaola
yes, more famous for that - she was director for 41 years i believe.
John Hall ь
Wonderful footage, thank you!! I only knew her as director of the Bolshoi Academy...
+carles03 yes, she had not come across my radar as a ballerina - my ignorance i guess! LOL
Thank you very much,I love her Bayiaderka most of all ,have you the end of this scene?
She's a better dancer IMO than some of her other contemporaries like Dudinskaya or Semyonova. I wonder if she ever actually toured out of the Soviet Union or Iron Curtain? The Bolshoi didn't tour to the West until the late 1950s by which time she would have been over 40 (as was Dudinskaya at the Kirov, but she had a lot more power there to continue past her prime). I know she taught ballet in Colorado for a short while post USSR when she was in her 80s. There were no doubt so many wonderful Stalin-era dancers who we're never going to see. :(
+kabardinka1 yes, a great pity she is so under-recognized. i have not been able to find any evidence of her touring to the West - she retired in 1959 and as the first Bolshoi tours began i think in 1956 (with Ulanova appearing in the UK and elsewhere) she may not have had the opportunity at the end of her career for touring in the Cold War climate of the 1950s?
+John Hall The Ballerina I always feel we missed out on the most was Alla Shelest. But Golovkina is up there also. So many wonderful artists never got to share their talents with the world because of cynical politics and petty hierarchies.
+kabardinka1
i totally agree about Alla Shelest - the Cold War period was destructive in so many ways - and there's even so little film of the ballerina dancing - so much is lost, never recapturable. art should be allowed to work on a level above the vagaries of the politics of particular times.
There was so little footage of Alla Shelest dancing. I read Dancing On Water and hoped desperately to see her dancing
Como se llama la música del pas de duex
+yibrail sanchez hola! Reconozco la música para el paso a dos, pero no puedo recordar el nombre con tristeza. :(
+yibrail sanchez hi, the pas de deux music (waltz) is from Die Fledermaus - originally an operetta, music composed by Johann Strauss II.
+TheBallet1 gracias
+TheBallet1 thanks so much for that! it sounded so familiar but i could remember the name of it, or anything about where is came from. :) i'll add this to the notes with this video and acknowledge you if that's okay?
+John Hall se llama you and you