Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova

Agrippina Jakowlewna Waganowa, around 1910

Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova ( Russian Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова ., Scientific transliteration Agrippina Jakovlevna Vaganova ; born June 14, ^jul. / 26. June  1879 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. November 1951 in Leningrad ) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet teacher and the founder the Waganowa method , which is the basis for the training of dancers in classical ballet to this day .

biography

Vaganova began her ballet training at the Imperial Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg in 1889. In 1915 she became a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theater . In 1921 she withdrew from her career as a stage dancer and from this time devoted herself to work as a ballet teacher, for which she achieved world fame in the ballet field in the following years. One of her students was the ballerina Galina Ulanowa .

From 1934 to 1941 Vaganova headed the leading St. Petersburg ballet school (connected to the Kirov Ballet ), which was named after her in 1956, as well as an internationally renowned ballet competition in the city. As a ballet teacher, she designed the teaching system named after her, which is still one of the theoretical foundations for ballet teaching from an early age worldwide.

Works

• with Michael Schulze (illustrations): Basics of classical dance (original title: Osnovy klassičeskogo tanca , translated by Jochen Scheibe). 2nd Edition. Henschel, Berlin 2009 (German first edition 1954), ISBN 978-3-89487-418-6 .

literature

• Vera S. Kostrowitzkaja: The Waganowa method in practice . (Original title: Škola klassičeskogo tanca , by Ursula Kirsten-Collein), Henschel, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89487-458-9 .

Web links

• Biography , Ballet Project (Russian)
• Biography on Belcanto.ru (Russian)
• Entry in Encyclopædia Britannica (English)
• Vaganova Ballet Academy (English)