CeliB Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 A little snippet from the (sold out) Mariinsky theatre: Waltz of the Snowflakes, with DS just sneaking in at the end... We are told by the administration he is first non Russian student ever to be cast as principal in the nutcracker. We were lucky enough to make it there to see the performance, though I was pretty anxious as he was super nervous having not had a dress rehearsal or ever been on stage with the snowflakes until the performance! He was convinced there was going to be a collision- they all move SO fast!! We got to go backstage immediately after the performance and see him and the dancers on the stage- such a treat for his sisters who came with us! (Equally exciting: DS will be one of only a handful of VBA students chosen to represent he Academy in the Icons of Russian Ballet Gala 2017 at the Coliseum in March. I will be there at eye watering cost, but again will be probably too nervous to enjoy it! But anyone who is going do watch out for him ) 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie4dancin Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Oh how lovely very proud moment for you all Congratulations to your ds c4d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 How wonderful ! Congratulations and wishing him all the very best. Xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat09 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 CeliB I'm chuffed to bits for your DS and you as well xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomin Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Lovely! Was he pleased with how it went? And wow, their pointe shoes are loud at the beginning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 How wonderful, CeliB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 How fantastic! Congratulations! ! So pleased for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeliB Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 yes they are arent they! I think he was more relieved than pleased. Personally I think he turned in a cautious, competent rather than inspired performance- I could tell he was nervous as well though he warmed up towards the end. As I said he hadn't had a Dress so was really nervous about placement and timing. Interesting the head of the international students (who chaperoned us round the theatre so kindly) said she was very pleased and he did well for a first performance, and that being cautious was the right approach for a first time. Am waiting to see what Tsiska says though (he was in London but is going to watch the film apparently) as it is he who put DS up for the part... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loulabelle Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Oh how fabulous! X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArucariaBallerina Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Wow! Forgive me, but how did your son get into Vaganova in the first place? I thought only Russians could! He looks brilliant anyway (they all do)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballet4Boyz Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Congratulations CeliB and to your DS - really wonderful achievement, you must be bursting with pride. What an inspiration for younger dancing boys coming through !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Thanks for the film CeliB and they are still students fabulous!! So exciting to see DS being cast in this role( though on another level am not at all surprised!!) Have got my ticket for the 12th ....there are still some for £40 available for anyone interested... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Congratulations and thanks for sharing this! So wonderful to watch your DS's progress towards what I am sure will be an amazing career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 ArucariaBallerina if you search under CeliB content you will come across the story - it's quite a long story - he's very talented!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Fantastic opportunity for your son, so lovely when hard work is rewarded. So pleased for you all x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeliB Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 Wow! Forgive me, but how did your son get into Vaganova in the first place? I thought only Russians could! He looks brilliant anyway (they all do)! They take international students from age 16 (same as upper school in the UK)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 "he was super nervous having not had a dress rehearsal or ever been on stage with the snowflakes until the performance!" So it's not just me this happens to? Anyway, congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletbrokemybank Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Wonderful. So inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Thanks for sharing this with us CeliB. He looks at home on the Maryiinsky stage ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletsoccermom Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Congratulations! So very exciting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primrose Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Beautiful he has done so well. Isabella mcguire Mayes another talented UK student was also given principle roles. She was an ex RBS pupil now dancing with the Mikhailovsky ballet company. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAK Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Incredible, you must be so proud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primrose Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Isabella McGuire Mayes (Dancer) Born in 1992, Isabella trained at the Royal Ballet School in London and with a Russian coach. Aged 15, she became the first British student to be accepted into the Vaganova Ballet Academy where she studied for four years. Her performances at the Mariinsky Theatre include Medora (Le Corsaire, 2012) and Queen of the Sea (The Little Humpbacked Horse, 2011). During her training she has also performed The Dying Swan (2011), Snowflakes, Lead Arabian dancer (The Nutcracker, 2010). In 2010, she danced Swan Lake with the Mikhailovsky Ballet on tour in London. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in June 2012 from the class of Irina Sitnikova and joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I do love the way that teachers at the Vaganova Academy keep the same group of pupils through different years so they really can mentor them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeliB Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 Beautiful he has done so well. Isabella mcguire Mayes another talented UK student was also given principle roles. She was an ex RBS pupil now dancing with the Mikhailovsky ballet company. oh yes- he isn't the first international student to do principal roles and indeed he has done so already in Fairy Dolls - but Nutcracker principal has never gone to a non Russian before as it's considered *the* number one role in the Academy year... or so the head of the international students told us... Was Isabella really the first ever English student at Vaganova? That must make DS the first boy... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primrose Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Apparently so. Have a look at her doing the dying swan on you tube. She is exceptional and was very highly regarded as one of the best students in her year. As you know international students and Russian are taught together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 She must've been very busy - RBS and Russian training! ! Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 The first English student at the Vaganova Academy (although I am not sure whether it was named that at the time) was in the early 1960s - Anna Wooster. I have copy of the Princess Book of Ballet from Christmas 1961 and there is a section about the school with several photos of Anna, other students and teachers. Previously she was a pupil of my old Russian teacher, Nina Hubbard at her school in Cambridge. Anna's father had to move to St. Petersburg for business (Leningrad as it was then) and Anna was admitted to the school as a senior student. This was before I had joined the school in Cambridge, but Anna used to come back to visit from time to time. She had a very successful career dancing in European ballet companies and eventually married and settled in Italy, opening her own school by Lake Garda. I could scan or photograph a page from the book and upload it, but I can't see anyway of doing this. Links to insert in posts only seem to be for internet addresses. Does anyone know how it could be done? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 In one of my old ballet books there was an article about an English girl at the Bolshoi Ballet School. The book is from the late sixties or early seventies. Just tried looking for it, but i've so many ballet books I gave up after half an hour. The article starts with something along the lines of "When ?? looks out of her dormitory window, she doesn't see lush green lawns, but stark, grey concrete", or words to that effect. The girl looked about seventeen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allnewtome Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I could be wrong but I think Linda Goss was the first westerner to ever train at the Bolshoi. http://www.linda-goss.co.uk/about-linda-goss/4516884962 Amazing story and indeed an amazing lady and career. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I could scan or photograph a page from the book and upload it, but I can't see anyway of doing this. Links to insert in posts only seem to be for internet addresses. Does anyone know how it could be done? Hello PDQ, there are a couple of threads about photographs in the "feedback" forum. I couldn't get Photobucket to work but could get Flickr to. The earlier thread is linked in this one: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/14295-photos-cannot-work-out-how-to-post-them/#entry196451 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I could be wrong but I think Linda Goss was the first westerner to ever train at the Bolshoi. http://www.linda-goss.co.uk/about-linda-goss/4516884962 Amazing story and indeed an amazing lady and career. That name DOES resonate from somewhere. Think this is her, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 OK, i've just Googled Linda Goss. There came up a very interesting article about her in the Independent newspaper in 1997 concerning the RBS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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