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sophia
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Des forums russes (balletfriends.ru, mariinka.org, etc...) annoncent le décès accidentel de Ninel Kurgapkina, survenu cet après-midi.
Ninel Kurgapkina, née le 13 février 1929 à Léningrad, fut l'une des dernières élèves d'Agrippina Vaganova. En 1947, elle rejoignit le Ballet du Kirov où, en tant qu'étoile, elle dansa les grands rôles du répertoire: Myrtha dans Giselle, Aurore dans La Belle au bois dormant, Kitri dans Don Quichotte, Gamzatti dans La Bayadère, Odette-Odile dans Le Lac des cygnes. Elle devint en 1972 directrice de l'Académie Vaganova tout en continuant à danser dans la compagnie (elle se retira de la scène en 1981).
Elle fut, entre autres, la partenaire mythique de Rudolf Noureev au Kirov. C'est avec elle qu'il dansa son premier Don Quichotte à Léningrad en 1959, son premier Lac en 1961, ainsi que le ballet Gayaneh.
Elle vint d'ailleurs l'assister à Paris lorsqu'il remonta La Bayadère en 1992.
Un gala en l'honneur de son 80ème anniversaire, auquel participaient nombre de ses élèves, avait été donné au Mariinsky en mars dernier.
Elle était depuis des années un pédagogue réputé auprès des solistes du Théâtre Mariinsky. Elle a notamment été le professeur de nombreuses ballerines célèbres du Mariinsky, parmi lesquelles Uliana Lopatkina, Zhanna Ayupova, Irina Zhelonkina, Elvira Tarasova, Elena Sheshina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Tatiana Tkachenko...
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Ballerina Dies in Car Crash
Ninel Kurgapkina, a famous ballerina and the first partner of ballet icons Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, died in a traffic accident Saturday outside St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky Theater said in a statement. She was 80.
No details about the accident were reported in the Russian media as of Monday afternoon. President Dmitry Medvedev issued condolences Sunday.
Kurgapkina was born in Leningrad in 1929 and graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School in 1947.
Kurgapkina was the Mariinsky Theater's prima ballerina from 1947 to 1981 and taught in the theater from 1982 to 1999. Among her students were three Mariinsky Theater prima ballerinas, Ulyana Lopatkina, Irma Nioradze and Zhanna Ayupova. She will be buried Tuesday after a memorial at the Mariinsky Theater. (MT)
Source: The Moscow Times (12 mai 2009) |
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Il y a une erreur ou tout au moins une coquille dans l'article ci-dessus. Les obsèques de Ninel Kurgapkina auront lieu le jeudi 14 mai (Thursday et non Tuesday) en l'église Saint-Nicolas.
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The Mariinsky Theatre will be bidding farewell to
Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina
on Thursday 14 May at 10.00.
12.00 – service at the Church of St Nicholas.
15.30 – cremation.
Source: http://www.mariinsky.ru/en |
Un texte d'hommage, signé de Valéry Gergiev et du personnel du Théâtre Mariinsky, a été publié sur le site du théâtre :
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The Mariinsky Theatre will be bidding farewell to
Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina
It is with great sadness that we announce the tragic death, on 8 May 2009, of outstanding ballerina and coach, People’s Artist of the USSR Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina. We have lost one of the 20th century’s greatest ballerinas, who devoted over fifty years to art.
Ninella Kurgapkina’s life-affirming art, vivacious and exultant in nature, was in tune with her own era: the ballerina was at the height of her powers in the post-war age – a time of unconquerable optimism for a victorious nation. A graduate student of Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova in 1947, who together with her contemporaries had known the privations of study during the evacuation of Leningrad, Kurgapkina positively exuded all her unspent energy on stage, her whole youthful fire. A pupil of the renowned Vaganova, Ninella Kurgapkina also stood out for her strong technique, her irreproachable training and her absolute mastery of the profession. Her dance was in tune with Pushkin’s «profession bowing at the feet of art». She always trusted in the algebra of harmony, striving for impeccable performance levels.
Much of Kurgapkina’s repertoire comprised the solo roles in ballets created by her contemporaries – Parasha in The Bronze Horseman, Jeanne in Flames of Paris, Gayaneh in the ballet of the same name, Syuimbike in Shurale, Shirin in The Legend of Love and His Beloved in Shore of Hope. These roles suited the «earthly» character of the ballerina’s art.
Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina enjoyed a long artistic career, intense in events, creative successes and discoveries and collaboration with contemporary choreographers. Her vast repertoire, itself worthy of detailed study, her mastery of dance technique, her brilliant memory and her great stage experience led to her appointment as a coach for the Theatre’s ballet company. She was able to pass on the secrets of her skills to the young artistes whom she coached at the Theatre. Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina devoted over forty years of her life to teaching. Her students included Mariinsky Theatre prima ballerinas Ulyana Lopatkina, Irma Nioradze and Zhanna Ayupova and first soloists Yevgenia Obraztsova and Tatiana Tkachenko. Ninella Alexandrovna Kurgapkina’s activities as a teacher and coach were unbelievably focussed and productive. Her contribution to the preservation and development of the best traditions of Russian ballet was truly inestimable.
Valery Gergiev
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Katharine Kanter
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Il y a aussi lieu de saluer le courage politique de Kurgapkina.
Contairement à d'autres, et en dépit des pressions et la crainte qui régnait, jamais elle ne se pliait à devenir le serviteur de quelque clique ou idéologie.
Elle avait à la fois la compétence, et la liberté d'esprit, et elle a su se faire respecter avec toutes les implications.
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Mary Barnstable
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Yes, she was certainly a free spirit; all the more remarkable as she was the daughter of parents that chose to call her Ninel - Lenin spelt backwards.
I saw her dance live only once in Leningrad as Gamzatti when she was in her mid 40's, a performance so perfect I didn't want it to end. I'm very disappointed that none of the papers here in the UK have seen fit to produce an obituary of this remarkable artist.
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