Vaganova and the Sacred Code of Dance

REFERENCE PAGE

SOURCES

“Agrippina Vaganova. The Great & the Terrible” Documentary (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gsr4Hf9V38

“Agrippina Vaganova” Documentary (1986)
Directed by Victor Okuntsov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXgHCexTu0
http://www.kino-teatr.ru/doc/movie/sov/11883/annot/

“Profile of Agrippina Vaganova Student Irina Kolpakova” Documentary
“ЦЛ об ученице Агриппины Вагановой – Ирине Колпаковой”
June 24, 2016 Broadcast of Russia K / TVKultura.ru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlX1Tck6ZJA&t=3s

“Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Documentary (2013)
“Жизнь во времени. Ирина Колпакова”
Documentary Film (AB Video 2013) / TVtorrent.ru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykyeLXC46lY

“Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)
“Ирина Колпакова. Балерина – весна”
Studio CBC for GTRK Kultura 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdS9VKB6tZY&t=2113s

“The House Near The Road” ballet film fragment (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrgIPlwZbAQ

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov

Old Bolshevik Guard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bolshevik

Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vasiliev

Victor Okuntsov (1924-2005)
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007123095/

Aplomb (French origin à plomb)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap

IMAGE SOURCES

Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova in her first performances:
screenshot from “Profile of Agrippina Vaganova Student Irina Kolpakova” Documentary

Agrippina Vaganova in her early career:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6157b_17ff6d0348834867859a9ed6f79a9243~mv2.jpg
note: not sure of the original source of this photo

Vaganova teaching her last graduate class in 1951 http://www.russianimperialballetschool.org/vaganova-students-images.html

  • X-tra, X-tra! This famous photo is everywhere. I obtained the image from the RIBS site with Olga Semenova, who happens to be daughter of Ludmilla Komissarova, the student standing front-center of this photo next to Agrippina Vaganova. Ludmilla Komissarova was also one of two main teachers of my friend and Vaganova Academy graduate, Anna Korotysheva.

Irina Kolpakova with dad:
screenshot from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty at Kirov (now, Mariinsky) Theatre (1950’s):
http://melmoth.blog/post/144739261283/happy-birthday-irina-kolpakova

Irina Kolpakova with Mikhail Baryshnikov at Kirov (now, Mariinsky) Theatre:
screenshot from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova with Rudolf Nureyev in Giselle (1959)
https://nureyev.livejournal.com/12670.html
Image courtesy of Maude Gosling, from the book: “Nureyev: The Life” by Julie Kavanagh

Irina Kolpakova teaching class at Vaganova Academy
screenshot from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Docufilm (2013)

Irina Kolpakova teaching class at Vaganova Academy
screenshot from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Docufilm (2013)

Diana Vishneva talks about Irina Kolpakova
screenshot from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova with Vladimir Vasiliev in “The House Near the Road” (1984)
screenshots from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Diana Vishneva talks about Irina Kolpakova
screenshot from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova with Natalia Makarova:
screenshot from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova with David Hallberg at ABT
screenshots from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Kevin McKenzie talks about Irina Kolpakova
screenshot from “Irina Kolpakova. Ballerina, Spring” Documentary (2013)

Irina Kolpakova talks about Vaganova
screenshot from “Agrippina Vaganova. The Great & the Terrible” (2010)

Vaganova’s teaching class in 1951 at the Leningrad Choreographic School (now Vaganova Ballet Academy) with Kolpakova in front
http://melmoth.blog/post/160943822668/irina-kolpakova-in-front-in-agrippina-vaganovas

Irina Kolpakova talks about Vaganova
screenshot from “Agrippina Vaganova. The Great & the Terrible” (2010)

Irina Kolpakova teaching at Yakobson ballet studio in St. Petersburg
screenshot from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Documentary (2013)
Quote from “Life in Time. Irina Kolpakova” Documentary (2013)

Thanks to Nikolai Tsiskaridze for several of the photos and the wealth of educational info he makes available on the web about classical ballet and its history.