Tatiana Gsovsky

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Tatjana Gsovsky (1946)

Tatjana Gsovsky ( Russian Татьяна Васильевна Гзовская / Tatiana Vasilyevna Gsowskaja , born Issatschenko Исаченко * 18th March 1901 in Moscow ; † 29. September 1993 in Berlin ) was an internationally renowned Russian ballet dancer , choreographer and ballet mistress .

Life

Memorial plaque at the location of the ballet school in Berlin's Fasanenstrasse 68.

Tatjana Issatschenko first studied art history and dance in Moscow in the studio of her mother Claudia Issatschenko and with Isadora Duncan , later ballet with Laurent Nowikow, Matyatin, Kirsanowa, Olga Preobrajenska and rhythm in the garden city of Hellerau near Dresden .

In Krasnodar ( Krasnodar Territory , Southern Russia ) she was appointed ballet master after the October Revolution . There she met and married her colleague, the dancer Victor Gsovsky . Both emigrated to Berlin from the Soviet Union in 1924. The couple had run a ballet school together in Berlin since 1928. In 1937 they moved to Paris and lived there until 1945.

After the Second World War , from 1945 to 1951, she was also a ballet master at the Berlin State Opera, completely rebuilt the Berlin State Ballet and celebrated great success with it. She then spent 1952 to 1953 as a ballet mistress at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires ( Argentina committed), 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 company Berliner Ballett , a modern dance theater on a classical basis, with which she performed throughout Europe.

Tatjana Gsovsky redefined classical dance. Her choreographic creations dominated the German dance scene for 20 years. She created numerous choreographies that have gone down in ballet history. Gsovsky's works combined classical ballet , elements of expressionist dance and insights from psychology into a forward-looking synthesis . She worked for her creations together with the composer avant-garde of her time - u. a. Luigi Nono , Hans Werner Henze , Boris Blacher , Max Baumann and Giselher Klebe .

Tatjana Gsovsky died in Berlin in 1993 at the age of 92. Her grave is in the state-owned forest cemetery Zehlendorf am Nikolassee , Wasgensteig, in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf (field 060-190). By decision of the Berlin Senate, Gsovsky's final resting place was dedicated in 1995 as an honorary grave for the State of Berlin . The dedication was renewed in November 2018.

Honors

Honorary grave, forest cemetery Zehlendorf

literature

Web links

Commons : Tatjana Gsovsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ritter Verlag: Program leaflet for the performance in the Städtische Oper (Deutsche Oper) "Blacher-Abend Ballett Lysistrara and Hamlet", Berlin-Dahlem , 23 November 1953
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 633.
  3. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 29; accessed on March 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gsovsky, Tatiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Issachenko, Tatiana Nikolaevna; Гзовская, Татьяна Николаевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German dancer, choreographer and ballet master
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 1993
Place of death Berlin