Azariy Mikhailovich Plisetskiy is in Tashkent

Today, on October 7, Azary Mikhailovich Plisetskiy, Maya Plisetskaya's brother, arrived in our capital. Leaders of the SABT named after A.Navoi invited a talented teacher and choreographer to work with a ballet troupe to stage a premiere play by A.Melikov "Poem of Two Hearts" based on the work of Sh.Rashidov, timed to the 100th anniversary of the Uzbek writer, which will take place at the end of October. Azary Mikhailovich will hold a number of master classes for the ballet dancers for 2 weeks, and he will share his experience and inspiration, which in his opinion is one of the components of success. In one of the interviews, Azary Mikhailovich noted: "Today everything is available - on the Internet you can find any variation, reconsider it hundred times, and study everything. Technique is growing, but inspiration and originality are rare. In short, there are many dancers, and there are few talents. And the main reason for continuously conquer of the Russian ballet school is its sincerity in combination with impeccable technique, of course!" Soon we will be able to observe the embedded part of the soul of the Russian school, in the national production of the ballet Poem of Two Hearts, to which the wonderful choreographer and educator of the famous Plisetsky’s dynasty will “put his hand”. Azariy Mikhailovich Plisetskiy is a ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. The representative of the theatre dynasty of Plisetskiy-Messerer: the son of Mikhail Plisetskiy and the actress Rachel Messerer, the younger brother of Alexander and Maya Plisetskiy’s. He lives in Switzerland. Born July 13, 1937, in Moscow in the family of the Soviet leader Mikhail Plisetskiy and silent film actress Rachel Messerer. He never seen his father - he was arrested on April 30, 1937 on charges of espionage and shot on January 8, 1938, during the Great Terror. In the spring, when he was not yet a year old, his mother was also arrested. Together with her, Azariy spent the first years of his life first in Butyrskaya prison, then in Akmola camp of the wives of traitors to the motherland, and, in the autumn of 1939, in a settlement in Chimkent (Kazakhstan). Three years later, in the spring of 1941 he returned to Moscow together with his mother. He entered the Moscow Ballet School, which he graduated in 1956. After graduation, he was not accepted into the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, since there are "too many Plisetskiys" there. A year later, in 1957, he managed to ensure that he was taken to the theater. He participated in the first tour of the Bolshoi Theatre in the United States. In 1962, he decided to accept the invitation to work in Cuba, which he at first refused. In the Cuban National Ballet he was the premiere of the troupe and partner of prima ballerina Alicia Alonso. He also began to teach classical dance, dealing with the class of boys. There, in Cuba, he began to try his skill as a choreographer, making staging for his students' stage practice. In 1964, he participated in the First International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, as a partner of three Cuban ballerinas: Mirta Pla, Aurora Bosch and Loipa Araujo. The jury was awarded him a special diploma for the partnership. Soon after the end of the competition he married Loipa Araujo. In 1969 he graduated from the Theater Department of GITIS. Leaving Cuba, he began teaching in different countries. He collaborated in France with the choreographer Roland Petit, in Spain with the Madrid Royal Ballet. He also worked in Japan, where he staged ballets "Don Quixote", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Lady with Camellias." As a teacher, he works particularly closely with the Bezhar Ballet. Since 1992, he works as the teacher-tutor of the school-studio of Maurice Bejar "Rudra". He worked in New York at the American Ballet School. In 2006, he also conducted master classes at the Mikhail Baryshnikov Arts Center. In 2008 and 2014 he visited Russia, where he conducted master classes at the Bolshoi Theater, as well as in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. Awards and titles 1964 - Diploma for the partnership of the First International Ballet Competition, Varna (Bulgaria) 1976 - Honored Artist of the RSFSR 2017 - Order of Friendship October 7, 2017

7 октября 2017