Ivan Vasilyev married Maria Vinogradova. Ivan Vasiliev, ballet artist: biography, personal life, creativity

With you are peers. In his 27 years you have achieved everything that the ballet stars can dream of: the main parties, invitations to perform on the best scenes, fans, high fees, fame. What else are you dreaming about?

Ivan: I have a lot of plans and a bunch of ideas. Such coming tasks are to continue to dance as much as possible and put a lot of interesting ballets. Now there will be three brand new ones that I put, - premieres in April and in June in the Mikhailovsky Theater: Morphine single-acting, "blind communication" and "bolero". "Morphy" is in Bulgakov, I took his characters and a little developed a story.

Maria: In my plans now - to engage in family. In the ballet, of course, I also would also like to do something new and dance interesting things, but most importantly in the near future - we, our family.

With you both have always been very busy people. How do you manage to combine family life and such demanding art like ballet?

Maria: If there is a desire, you can compatible in our time absolutely everything. We have a lot of families in the theater: there are those who work in the same theater, who are in different theaters, some generally live (or lived as we) in different cities, who are in St. Petersburg who are in Moscow. And perfect everything combine, some have two and even three children.

Ivan: I generally think that good creativity without a strong and happy family can not be, one complements the other, and the whole charge of emotions and the desire to create, we get from each other.

How do you all have time?

Maria: We have a habit of discipline since childhood, from the school. Perhaps we are more organized than people are not ballet.

Ivan: besides me.

Maria (laughs): I dare for two in our family.

Ivan: Masha is really superhorn - maybe I myself would like to be the same, but I am already glad that I live with such a hyperpunctual person. As for me, all the director of the ballet know that Vasilyev always does his work, makes it well, but may be late.

Maria: This is if he is without me. With me, he always has time everywhere on time, never wakes up anything and is not delayed.

Are you discussing at home performances or try to "leave work at work"? Do you need to relax from the theater?

Maria: No, of course. Ballet is a huge part of our life. We are creative people, often discuss houses and parties, and plans, much dance - anything.

Ivan: We just try not to bring Negative to the family. You know, as they say: "All on the nerves"? No "nerves" do not need at home. Any story that happened in the theater and makes us worry and nervous, we leave behind the threshold.

Balance of good and evil

What is the source of inspiration for you?

Ivan: In general, I am ready to dance everything! I have a wide role - from Spartak to the princes and any unclean. But it was always difficult to me: I dance only what I think interesting. What I don't like, I feel even bad. I started, for example, to prepare "Carmen-Suite", realized that I personally could not say anything in this ballet, and I refused this idea. I need to feel who my hero is, and from this already make up your understanding of all movements. Click a circle so that there are no spaces. It is important for me to understand everything that happens to me on the scene. This is if about ballet. And in life, Mary inspires me.

Maria: and communication with colleagues, of course.

How do your successes influence your life, what do you think about yourself? Have you always believed or were moments of doubt?

Maria: I have doubts all your life there are, this is normal. I am very critical, I am "Samoyed" and very much I dig in myself.

Ivan: If I were not in myself sure, I would have achieved anything in my life. People often spoke to me: "You're small," "you have a big head," and what they just did not say! It continued all my life and still sometimes happens. But I was always confident in myself and that is why I achieved what it is now.

Maria: Yes, everything always needs to look for the pros. I really like tour, but the only one, perhaps, minus, which I can name is the assembly and disassembly of suitcases.

Ivan: Strange. And I always, when I am going to tour, I see already collected suitcase in front of the threshold. When I arrive and bring a suitcase, it is also disassembled in the next and everything is laid out. This is magic (laughs).

Maria: Some invisible housework works.

With you are a very harmonious couple, complementing each other with all the difference in characters and attitude to life, which in places, if you judge the answers, almost the opposite. What do you like most in each other? What are you arguing?

Ivan: I like everything in Mary without exception.

Maria: We have found the perfect balance of power.

Ivan: Balance of good and evil!

Maria: I good (laughs). Although not always.

Ivan: Somehow from the first day of living together, everything coincided perfectly. We do not argue about anything. We are very comfortable together.

Maria: I'm never bored with Vanya.

Ivan: I always want to go home to her. Especially after four hours in the hall without a break really want to warm.

Maria: I am the embodiment of a homemade hearth.

Ivan: You are a fire.

Are you in your family leader?

Ivan: Of course, we have a leader in the family: how Masha wishes, so everything will be. I am a high-quality performer.

Maria: It seems to me that we have in the family as they say: "The woman is a neck, and the man is a head."

Ivan: Yes, yes. Masha will say that it is necessary, and I will think of how to achieve it.

With If you ever asked your grandchildren, what is the secret of the family and why do you need, what would you answer?

Ivan: We would answer them: the family is needed in order to appear, grandchildren! The meaning of the family is the emergence of a new life.

Maria: You can't say better.

Ballet is not a perflection

It is believed that the Balt Schools of Moscow and St. Petersburg differ markedly. Is it really so? Is it difficult to dance on the stage of Mikhailovsky after the Bolshoi Theater?

Ivan: I do not agree with this categorically. I believe that there is one good school - this is the Russian ballet school, which is also presented in such neighboring countries as Belarus and Ukraine. There, there are in schools our teachers who were brought up in the traditions of one Russian school. There are no differences between Moscow and St. Petersburg schools, everything worked for a long time, artists learned in Moscow can calmly dance in St. Petersburg, and vice versa. Everyone was mixed.

Mary: It seems to me that there is a difference, but non-accepted, it is simply in the nature of Muscovites and Peters. The individuality of the artist is of much greater importance. But Russian and American schools are distinguished noticeable.

What exactly?

Ivan: In America, other hands are completely different.

Maria: A completely different manner, the accents are put on the other, it is noticeable that in the school initially worked quite differently than with us. This is actually such a global topic - the difference between our dance and our culture from Western. It is customary to talk about the difference of mentality, and the same can be said about ballet. You can talk about different souls.

Ivan: We differ from Americans or Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Germans or Italians. With the Italians, we are most similar.

C if you talk about classic ballet and modern dance, ballet-modern, what is more interesting for you in the future?

Ivan: There are directions that are generally hard to perceive, and there are very interesting directions that we are doing a lot now. I myself put ballets now and I can not say that I put an absolutely classic choreography. I put my choreography.

What is not interesting?

Ivan: uninteresting directions in which they completely remove the dances and add theatrical game, as if some kind of super inadequate. When the ballet is called, but do not completely ballet. They say: "Let us eat on stage a cake, light the candles ..."

Maria: It's already, rather, Performance.

Ivan: This is also an art, but completely different. If we are talking about ballet, then let's do ballet, not a perfoch.

Calories, sausage and coffee

C do you consider calories?

Maria: No, never worked out. Our family and proper nutrition are incompatible things, because we both love to eat.

Ivan: I have a nutrition omnivorous.

C Can I afford tea or coffee with a cake?

Maria: Yes, completely calm. Vanya sweet does not eat, and I love. I know that over time we will have to think about what I eat and how much, but for now I can eat the cake and in front of the performance, and after.

Ivan: And I love all meat, sausage, vegetable ...

Maria: You love everything except sweet. Although sweet you sometimes love.

Ivan: Well, no, I will never exchange a piece of sausage on a cake.

Maria: This is if such a choice is to stand.

Ivan: or a piece of meat on a cake ...

Are you balving each other? Which of you more often prepares coffee for another?

Ivan: Prepares Masha more often, and I drink.

Maria: I like the taste of coffee, I love big cups, with milk, with sugar. And Vanya drinks coffee to wake up. For him, the main sleep is longer, and then collect as quickly as possible.

Ivan: I quickly drink quickly, I don't want to spend a lot of time on it, especially before work.

Once we are in a coffee boutique, I will ask you which coffee do you like - Cappuccino, Lungo, Espresso? Do you have one favorite kind of coffee for two, or everyone chooses yours?

Ivan: I love coffee strong, the most black and without sugar - ridertto. In my opinion, sweet dull taste of any drink and any meal. We have at home and in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg there are Nespresso coffee machines, but if I am alone, then I do not even use that capacity where milk is poured. Just put in the morning the capsule and brewing the smallest cup. I like the coolness coffee and with the most saturated taste, which is. Such blends like Arpeggi, Ristretto - the main thing so that the fortress of the taste of 10 points was at least 9.

With the taste of pepper, Nespresso has a strong grade in the Gran Cru - Kazaar series, the dark blue capsule.

Ivan: with pepper notes in the aftertaste - beautiful.

Maria: Everyone has coffee for each other. I drink cappuccino in the mornings. I love sweet blends, lighter than those that drink Vanya. Volluto, with fruit taste, really like. Like to try different options and new varieties, I generally man is inquisitive and curious.

From New Nespresso recently appeared a set of Alter Ego - three Blenda Gran Cru and their exact copies in the Decaf version. To Arpeggio, for example, there is Arpeggio (Decaf), to the Volluto there is also a decene double. Tried?

Maria: I tried all three new Decaf variants and, honestly, did not distinguish them from the original coffee. This is really "Other I", Alter Ego is exactly the same smell and taste, as in the original blend, it does not feel at all that Decaf.

Say, and you have a strict day mode? Can you allow a strong coffee in the evening?

Maria: The mode is unstrupping, but in the evenings, perhaps, it is better to drink coffee without caffeine.

Ivan: I need coffee in order to charge me with vigor, energy. Coffee is such a "rim". In this sense, I am opposed to Maria again. I can drink strong coffee in the evening completely without any problems.

Maria: I inspires the taste and the process itself. We in the Bolshoi Theater is a real tradition: after the morning class, before the rehearsal, it is necessary to go to the buffet, take coffee, exchange news, gossip, find out who is like.

Ivan: ballet artists and general the staff of the Bolshoi Theater drink a lot of coffee. If the artist crossed a strong coffee in front of the performance, it is even good - it will jump beyrey.

Maria: Yes! Coffee drink everything, this is part of the culture, part of the life of theater.

The famous ballerina and just beautiful Maria Vinogradov dancing on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. Hello! Represents an exclusive photo session and an interview with the new star of the Russian ballet. She dances Salfid and Giselle, Sparta Freigia's girlfriend in the same name and dicarka Balu in the new play "Hero of our time" on Lermontov, supplied by choreographer Yuri Stow and director Kirill Serebrynikov under the curtain of last season. Talented, artistic, technical, perfectly folded, real beauty Maria Vinogradova - decoration of the Scene of the Bolshoi Theater. The last summer Maria Vinogradov became the wife of the famous dancer, the stars of the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky theaters Ivan Vasilyeva: now they are increasingly dancing together. On October 3, Vasiliev and Vinogradov came out together in "Giselle" on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, and in the spring of Maria participates in the new premiere, which her husband is preparing.

Masha, become a ballerina - was it a dream of childhood?

Yes, I was only three years old, but I could no longer live without dancing and music. Parents saw my passion and decided to give me to the dance circle. There began to manifest my abilities. I turned out to be very soft, moving joints - they in children in principle are soft, elastic, but I could simply "tie" in any node. (Smiles.) For some time I did in this circle, and then I was taken to the Locks song and dance ensemble. There I learned that all the girls come to some kind of mysterious academy of choreography. I decided that I needed there too.

- Your parents from the ballet world?

No, completely. Mom - economist, and dad - chemist. No connections in the ballet world they never had ...

- That is, you entered the choreography academy not by Blat.

What are you, in what blat? I do not recognize this approach at all. Just by virtue of my dumb character: I am twins on a horoscope - always achieve your own.

At the Academy, you probably dreamed of becoming a soloist, and not the "third swan right"?

Well, of course. (Smiles.) Appetite comes while eating. In the first grade of the school, I am not very good "stood on my feet" by ballet standards: I had a four classic dance, but already from the second class "excellent." I worked a lot, and over time I began to give solo parties. When I went to the scene of the Bolshoi Theater in "Bayaderka" - there is a small party that students of the Academy usually perform - I realized that I want to dance only here on this legendary scene. In 2006, after graduating from the Academy, I was invited to watch to the Bolshoi Theater and accepted into the troupe.

- In the Bolshoi Theater you started with the corpsoretole?

Yes, this is an ordinary practice: no matter what the leading parties you danced at the Academy, - in the theater you are all starting from scratch. I started with the second cord of ballet. Then he moved to the first. Then she became a Corofay, soloist, the first soloist. I passed all the way - from the very first stage to the leading soloist.

- Today what your role is the most favorite party? Giselle, probably?

Yes, Giselle. I still love the batch of wiring in the "Legend of Love" Yuri Grigorovich - Ballet, who returned to the historic stage in the past season. When theater was on the repair, the performance was left of the repertoire, and I consider it a great happiness that he was returned. Again, happiness to work with Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich. I first got in touch with him when I danced Anastasia in his ballet "Ivan Grozny", - he approved me for this role. Yuri Nikolaevich is a real genius.

In the ballet premiere of a big, play "Hero of our time", you dance Bal. Decoders saw your hot temperament?

I do not know. (Laughs.) But I really like my heroine, and the whole party is generally very beautiful. But not simple. All 30 minutes while the performance lasts, you are on stage, and there is no possibility even to translate the spirit. Plus a sophisticated costume. He is three-layer. In the course of the action, I expose it and remain in the top and pants, but before that you have to dance with such a cargo.

- Masha, and you daring and wild, like Bal?

- (laughs.) I'm not sure that wild, but unpredictable. This is best to ask my husband. Vanya tells me: "Every time I do not know what to expect from you."

You met, rehearsing Spartak. How did your novel arose? He is Spartak, you are Frigia. You are separated in the slaves market ...

- (smiles.) I do not think that it is worth carrying such parallels ...

- What could Ivan Vasilyev conquered you? In addition to talent, of course.

Very much ... I love him very much. He is just the best. Vanya has a stunning sense of humor. And he is honest, open and, most importantly, the responsible person.

- That is, behind him like a stone wall?

Yes exactly.

- And you are fragile, tender. Caprice?

Capricious. (Smiles.) It happens that my mood is changing often. But Vanya absolutely calmly always perceives. Never annoyed, never start. Perfect person for me. Absolutely.

It is not difficult to assume that you, among other things, have conquered him with their beauty. In general, beauty for the ballerina is a reward or "not the most important thing"?

I do not know ... Sometimes, it happens, I hear to my address: "Here, the face is cute, so it dances." I would not want people to think so about me. Moreover, I do not consider myself some kind of beauty. We have many beautiful girls in the theater.

- Gossip you grieve?

I have a hard character. I have already said: I, if I want, I will not pay attention to anything - that's how cut off. There are, of course, the moments that hurt me. In such cases, I begin to worry, and Vanya calms me: "Well, all, so enough to think about it ..."

- To criticism how are you?

Ivan Vasilyev

The problem was that we did not have time. We hardly found the date when we are both in Moscow. Vanya on the wedding day only at 3 o'clock flew to Moscow. We just painted and dinner with their parents ... But maybe we will arrange a holiday.

- How did Ivan make a sentence?

I returned home from the rehearsal. I went, I saw that the whole room was covered with rose petals.

- Does he pise you?

Yes, terrible. (Laughs.) He constantly makes me some gifts.

- What was the most memorable?

I had a premiere - Vanya was not in Moscow, and he sent me flowers to the theater. After the performance, I approach the service entrance, and there the basket is more than my car size. I left her there. And the next day the guys helped me convey it to the dressing room - she took almost the whole room.

- Do you like to do surprises yourself?

I love very much! I recently did a surprise. We had a week before the end of vacation, and I bought a small tour of Rome for three days. He booked everything, ordered wonderful excursions - to the Vatican and in the Colosseum. Vanya was in Rome many times, but always during the tour, so, in fact, he did not see anything, and he had a long-standing dream to visit the Colosseum. He dances in Spartacus, and it was important for him to see with his eyes arena, where the gladiator fights were passed, to penetrate this atmosphere. It seemed to me, Vanya was very happy.

Your husband tells that you are stunningly cook, and once for your meatball, he almost refused to meet with the President of Russia after the opening ceremony of the Olympiad in Sochi. What were these burgers such magic?

Turkey cutlets with buckwheat. (Laughs.)

- Where did you learn to cook so tasty?

My mother prepares very tasty - probably, this ability to me was transmitted from her. Plus, I have always been interested in different kitchens, I found recipes on the Internet.

People after all think that the ballerina and the kitchen are incomplete things, like genius and evil.

It's not like that at all. Ballerinas are prepared in the same way as everyone. In the summer, my girlfriend I looked dumplings. I cake pies, soups. Of course, when the time allows. If performances go every day, I do not do it. But I always do breakfast: porridge, omelets, scrambled eggs ...

Vasilyev and Vinogradov at home and Vasilyev and Vinogradov on stage - are these two different couples? Can you love each other in your free time and swear rehearsing?

In no case do not swear. I always listen to Vanya - for me, his opinion is very important. Although it happens that I do not have a mood or it is harmful.

- You have danced in his first ballet formulation "Ballet №1" and now cook something interesting ...

You know, I remember work on "ballet number 1" as a very difficult time. (Smiles.) Because it is not enough that we worked at the rehearsal hall all day, and Vanya continued to dance, invent something. I told him: "Will you ever quiet already? Rest." He sat down on the sofa, resting two minutes, got up and started dancing again: "But if so, look?" I remember, I was in the kitchen, and he is in the room. He "pulls out" the Pol Apartments and finds himself next to me. (Laughs.) Now we are proceeding with the rehearsals of the new performances of Vanya, and I feel that the story will repeat.

The season in the theater you started with the Swan Lake. You are executable Russian dance: Russian beauty in Kokoshnik - the role as if created for you. But you want to become Odeta-Odillia?

Yes, Odetta Odile is a dream. But for this image you need to "mature".

Makeup artist and hair stylist: Elena Zubareva (The Agent)
Set-designer: Ilya Nemirovsky
Photographer's assistants: Mikhail Kovynev, Andrei Kharybin
Stylist Assistant: Inga Sobolev
Producers: Yana Rudkovskaya, Natalia Oreshnikova
Clothing: Edem Couture

They are young, talented and obsessed with the profession. Duet on stage and in life. Maria Vinogradova is the leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. Her elements are lyrical heroines, and in this role it is truly in demand today.

Photo: Dmitry Zhuravlev

Ivan Vasilyev - World Ballet Star. Everything his speech, and on any continent, is a grand event for the public, which Vasilyeva is guardian ... Masha and Ivan's daughter was born more recently. But Maria is already in the ranks. On December 16, at the Christmas party "Christmas Ballet-Gala" in the Kremlin Palace, her next premiere - the ballet "Schacherzad". Who is a partner? Of course, Ivan Vasilyev!

FROMhow old are you together?

Ivan: In December, three years turned out.

Is it a lot or a little?

Maria: depending on which side to look.

And.: With me - year for two.

Why such speeds?

And.: Because I am a cheerful man. ( Laughs.)

Each of you had their own personal life, their career. What united you?

M.: Scene. In the Bolshoi Theater, we launched together in Spartak, Vanya - the Main Party of Spartak, I - Frigia, his beloved. Since this all started. ( Smiles.)

In the ballet world, many are docked on their profession.

And.: I'm just struggling with this. This is just a ballet, not all life. Probably, I truly realized that when I had a family when my daughter was born. You come home, and you need to be able to switch.

M.: Of course, I want to spend as much time as possible with a small daughter, but in your career it is necessary to have everything.

How much daughter is now?

And.: Five months. For the sake of my daughter, I work a lot, a lot touring.

It happens, I come home late in the evening, and at five in the morning I need to fly somewhere again. The only thing that gives me strength and makes the internal gather, is a daughter and family.

How quickly did you feel that your relationships can end the wedding?

And.: We agreed as a puzzle, immediately felt harmony. From the first week, as they started to meet, we were so easily together. Now we have proved this feeling, became a full-fledged family, it can not but rejoice. True, I cared for Masha for almost a month.

I understand, Ivan that in your reactivity month is a whole eternity.

And.: For me and then sometimes the whole eternity, everything is relative.

M.: And it seems to me that this time somehow slowly stretched.

And.: I toured all the time then. Carting was at a distance, I sent Masha parcels, flowers.

M.: Mostly it was flowers.

I.: I remember, one day brought you a box and said you to open it when I was already on the train. I drove into Moscow then literally ten o'clock.

And you, Masha, of course, did you like it all?

M.: Well, what kind of woman do not like when it is beautifully cared for her? ( Smiles.) Maybe these marks of attention were especially expensive and valuable, because the feelings arose real.

When you dance in a duet, the scene probably emphasizes genuine feelings. After the birth of the daughter already danced together?

M.: Yes, on November 29, we had Spartak. In fact, being in a position, I set myself a goal very quickly back to the scene. I understood for ourselves that if you have a dream on maternity leave, I will never come back back.

Our profession is a matter of young, and if you fall out of the process for a long time, you can not have much time. So, as soon as doctors allowed physical activity, I began to go to the ballet class. It happened a month after childbirth.

Everything so lightning was twisted that already at the beginning of the season I was actively involved in the work. It was hard, of course. Vanya saw my torment, in the summer he traveled to the theater with me, gave me a class, helped enter the form.

And.: I could not convince Masha that I would still sit at home. I would love to sit at her place. (Laughs.)

M.: While on maternity leave, I went to performances in which Vanya danced. Spartak, "Ivan Grozny" in the big ... flew with him to Peter, in Novosibirsk, even to Japan. I wanted myself terribly on the stage!

At one time, there was a loud story when Ivan Vasilyev, already being the prime minister of the ballet and possessing in the theater with all possible privileges, suddenly left the big one. You, Vanya, no desire to return back?

I.: I left, but in fact it did not leave anywhere. Because a month after the "care" from the theater again began to cooperate with great, as a guest soloist, and continue to cooperate to this day. I have a lot of interesting projects around the world. At the moment, the situation with the big theater is satisfied with me. I like to come there, dance your favorite ballets, big - my first theater, my home, my beginning, and I feel very comfortable here.

I remember your first play in the biggest in 2006. You danced in the Don Quixote Basil, the main men's party, the most difficult party, designed for a mature dancer, and then you were only seventeen years old! This is a unique case for the Bolshoi Theater, nothing like that was neither before or after.

M.: Vanya itself is a unique case. ( Smiles.) I mean his brilliant career. On stage, he is honest, always laid out on a complete coil - even if there are injuries, never save strength. And in life, he is the same open as on stage.

That's just about strength and energy. One day, a very dramatic episode happened at the creative evening of the ballerina, a very dramatic episode. Ivan began to dance a fragment from the ballet "Flame of Paris", suddenly lost its balance, fell, then again began to dance and as a result, right on stage he lost consciousness. Personally, I hurt and terribly observe all this ...

And. Yes, I danced then with a temperature of forty, only behind the scenes came to my senses, on some bed. Caused ambulance.

And who needs such victims?!

And.: Well, I do not know how to say "no." ( Smiles.)

Did it yourself then scary?

And.: No, it was not terribly. It was a shame.

M.: Not a single artist is insured. There are things that can not be controlled on the scene. Injuries happen. I was a fracture of my leg. I "broke down" on the run of the new performance. With this fracture I worked about about a week, because the doctors did not see the fracture.

The month went on crutches, then he was restored for a long time. And then I was planted so much prime! Of course, you need to take care of your health. You need to spend more time to rest. Even Vanya has already understood that you need to take care of yourself. For health in our family I answer. All the time I am watching the husband to drink vitamins, made massages ...

Another point. I remember well, as before the debut in the Don Quixote, before the start of the performance, I asked Ivan if he was worried, leaving the first time on the scene of the Bolshoi Theater. And Ivan answered Ivan: "What is worried about?" I was very surprised at this reaction.

And.: Probably, it was youthful maximalism, a protective reaction. I can say that if an excitement disappears before the performance, you can leave the profession.

That is, then you smelled?

And of course. And perhaps, because of adrenaline did not understand how much I worry. Now I understand that, no matter how much you dance, I worry more and more. When we grow when you reach a certain level, the responsibility appears for what you are doing. Whether going to the stage, you should become the best version of yourself.

At seventeen years you had a Don Quixote. Where to grow further?

And you did everything. You made a phenomenal career, you are applied all over the world.

And. Over the years I have a lot to dance. I worked with the best dance troupes of New York, London, Munich, Rome ... I was both Ivan Grozny, and Spartak, and a prince in the Swan Lake, and in the same evil genius. I do not have such that, they say, like this, you put me with an evil genius, and I want to be only a prince. If the role is interesting to me, let it be secondary, what's the difference. After all, you can go out and dance it so that it will become the main one!

It's right. You think completely different characters. If Ivan temperamental, explosive, then Masha is calm, calm ...

And.: In some ways, we are still alike. For example, both home, such "sofa troops". The biggest buzz when you can sit at home together, talk ...

I know that Masha is a radical Muscovite, but Ivan has a rich geography.

And.: Yes, it shook me. I was born in the Primorsky Territory, and I studied Ballet in Minsk. ( Smiles.)

Why Minsk, not Moscow?

And.: I was advised there good teachers. From Vladivostok we moved to Ukraine, I was twelve years old. From there already in Minsk.

Interestingly, Vanya, from the very beginning they said that you have outstanding ballet data?

And.: I was already a variation of "Don Quixote" in a five years ...

...Wow!

And.: So, probably, there was a potential. I can not say that everything was easy, but I liked to work since childhood.

I did not like idle to run in the school, play sals or sit in a computer club, I was just uninteresting for me, and what about all this? He was engaged only by what some result could bring. I have always been the leader, even English learned for this reason. When I came to work under a contract in New York, in the American Ballet Theater, then thought: how so, I will not be a soul of the company? And began to learn the language. Probably, nature in me is laid in the spotlight. ( Smiles.)

Are you invited after the victory at the Moscow International Ballet Artist Competition? In any case, then everyone only spoke about the phenomenal Ivan Vasilyeva.

And.: Invited a little later. Gold medal at the competition in Moscow I received a fifteen years.

M.: By the way, we saw there for the first time with Ivan: that year I also became a laureate.

And.: No, for the first time we met before, ko-gda you came to a concert to our Minsk School. Do not remember? I participated in the one-acting stage set specifically for me, and Masha danced in the "Nutcracker". True, then we did not meet.

Why?

And.: I was generally a shy boy. I went to the scene, danced, and then remained in my world. Each time, when the Minsk Theater was given ballet, I was sure to be in the auditorium, on the gallery. Odnoklassniki in the school was surprised: "Why are you going to the same production so many times?" And I did not understand how you can skip, the performers each time others, there is something to learn.

Your older brother Victor also does ballet. Did you go to his footsteps?

And.: No, rather, he went on mine. It so happened that we began to engage together in the folk ensemble, and then I was ahead of him everywhere. I went to Minsk, after a year he arrived. When I came to Big, he entered the Moscow Academy of Choreography. Now the brother works in the Bolshoi Theater in Miman, so in the state of Vasilyev still there! ( Smiles.) And I was greatly called three times.

Is it really necessary to persuade?!

And.: For the first time they called for a conversation when I was at the competition in Perm, so I could not come. I won the Perm Competition, and I called the second time, but at that time I had state exams in the school. And for the third time I was actually sent a railway ticket. I met the leadership, and I immediately offered to become a soloist.

Usually everyone starts from the corps.

And.: In the big one happened for the first time: seventeen years old, only from school bench - and immediately a soloist.

Did you think that all this is in the order of things, or perceived as the gifts of fate?

And.: What are the gifts of fate? I just sought to ensure that everything happened. In twenty years, I have already become a ballet prime minister, bypassing the position of the leading soloist.

Masha in this sense is exactly smooth, smooth, step behind the step.

M.: Yes, I went large all the steps: from the artist of the "second core land" to the leading soloist. Anastasia in the "Ivan Grozny" became the first major role, then "Spartak", and further new interesting roles.

And Ivan now also choreographer. Tell me when you felt the need to put ballets?

And.: Even earlier than to dance. I always want to do something new, otherwise boring. Masha constantly heard that I want to put, and once she told me: "Want - put." That is, actually pushed me to the realization of the dream.

M.: When Vanya composes ballet, this is a separate story. Man is completely immersed in his world. He can wake up among the nights, turn on the music, to start something to tell me or even show.

And.: Several of my performances - in the repertoire of the Mikhailovsky Theater, where I serve today.

And on December 31, at the stage of the Hermitage Theater, the premiere of my two-hot ballet "Christmas History" based on the story of Dickens "Christmas Song", I myself dance hero named Scrough.

If Ivan dances on December 31 in St. Petersburg, then, will you meet a new year?

And.: I specifically appointed my premiere for sixteen hours, so that I then catch the plane to Moscow. So we will definitely meet the new year!

Photo: Dmitry Zhuravleov. Style: Polina Shabelnikova. Makeup and Hairstyles: Natalia Oginskaya / Pro.FashionLab

Ivan Vasilyev and Maria Vinogradov in the production of "Crystal Palace" © photo: Nikolai Maitors

World Ballet Star Ivan Vasilyev, Famous Ballerina Maria Vinogradova, Prima Ballerina Bolshoi Theater Maria Allas, Opera Solochka Bolshoi Theater Anna Aglatova and the famous dramatic actress Maria Golubanka about the scenic miracle, which is waiting for us in Malta.

On July 21, 2017, Malta was noted in the cultural calendar of Malta: at (Valletta) will show a performance-extravagania. For the first time on the scene of the European Island state, the stars of the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow will speak.

Unprecedented event for his discharge is timed to the celebration. This is a joint project and Mediterranean conference center with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Malta, and the Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ivan Vasiliev, Honored Artist of Russia
The initial choreographic education received in the Dnipropetrovsk State Choreographic School (Ukraine). In 2002-2006 he studied at the Belarusian State Choreographic College (teacher - A. Kolyadenko). During his studies, he was in danger in the National Academic Bolshoi Theater of Opera and Ballet of the Republic of Belarus, where he served as a Basil's party in Don Quixote Ballet and the Ali Party in Ballet "Corsair".
At the end of the college, the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus was adopted, but at the end of 2006 he went to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia and in 2010 became the prime minister of the troupe.
From December 2011 - in the ballet troupe of the Mikhailovsky Theater. In 2012-2013, the Premier of the American Ballet Theater (ABT). It is an invited soloist "La Rock" and Bavarian ballet.
He performs with the troupes of the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, the ballet troupe of the Roman Opera. On the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater performs leading parties in the ballet "Don Quixote", "Bayaderka", "Flame of Paris", "Swan Lake", "Corsair", "Sleeping Beauty", "Laurency", "Giselle, or Vilisa", " Cavalry "," Vain precaution "," Class-concert "," Silfide ". In 2014, he participated in the picture "First Ball of Natasha Rostova" at the opening ceremony of the Olympiad in Sochi.
In 2015, the premiere of "Ballet No. 1" was held on the stage of the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall in his formulation. In 2016, he released three Morphine single-acting ballet, "blind communication" and "bolero", which entered the repertoire of the Mikhailovsky Theater. In May 2016, the ballet "Love is everywhere" in the choreography Ivan Vasilyeva was shown on the scene of the Bolshoi Theater.
Ivan Vasilyev is a brilliant performer of Korrad's parties in Corsaire and Philip in Paris Flame, who was awarded the prize of the International Association of Choreography of Benoa De La Dance. The owner of the prestigious British national dance prize of critics in the nomination "Best Dancer" (2011); Grand Prix of the International Dance Open Festival (2011); The British national dance bonus of the circle of critics in the nomination "In the light of the searchlight" (2008); "Ballet Star - 2000" (2007, Cannes, a prize of critics of the magazine "Ballet" - 2000); Special Prize of the International Ballet Artists Competition in Varna (2006).
Photo: Nikolai Majorov

The performances are busy brilliant classic dancers from the most famous theaters of Russia, as well as famous singers, musicians and dramatic actors.

We prepared a gift to the "Maltese Bulletin" readers - talked with Russian soloists and found out what unprecedented luck fell out to everyone who will be July 21 in Malta, because we all waiting for the premiere show of a grandiose and unusual performance!

Ivan Vasilyev

In the play "Crystal Palace" - a jester

Brilliant artist, one of the five best ballet dancers of the planet, shares its reflections on the upcoming performance.

"My creative biography applies to all the ballet space of Russia, Europe and America, and originates in the Belarusian choreographic college. Since 2006, I worked in the Bolshoi Russia Theater, where I reached the position of the prime minister. In 2011, I decided to become a "dancer of the world", in order to be made as creative as much as possible. I accepted many different invitations from the largest choreographic sites of the world, actively trying to yourself in different stylists, various dance directions, classical and modern. I always follow my creative intuition and opened with interesting dance projects, especially if there are real historical events behind it.

When I was suggested to think about participation in the Russian-Maltese project, I was immediately interested in the concept of the performance and libretto. The play "Crystal Palace", where the plot unfolds in the era of the rule of the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna, of course, demanded my participation! I danced the heroes and princes many times. I also had to dance the jesters, but I imagined this tragic image immediately in a technical and performing manner, and, of course, I liked it, so I agreed to participate in the project, despite the most complex working schedule. Also, it was also extremely important for me and it is interesting that in this project we will play lovers together with my beloved wife - the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, Maria Vinogradova. We are infrequently falling luck to work together on the stage, especially in a full-fledged performance. This feature can not be overlooked. We got married quite recently, quite often it is necessary to part because of work. When I saw my wife in a snow-white vest during a rehearsal of one of the scenes of the play, I realized how the right decision we took when they agreed to share participation in the formulation. It was also very pleasant to learn that the director and choreographer of the ballet was invented and created these roles under us with Maria. This is a great honor for any creative personality. Each artistic couple of spouses is very important and reverently over and over again to "live" the history of "Romeo and Juliet" in various genre interpretations.

Ivan Vasilyev:
"In this project we will play lovers with my beloved wife"

I have repeatedly noted in various interviews that the dance, and not only effective, is my life. Now the creation of dance, choreographic performance, thinking of complex images is important for me. This is one of the reasons why I accept invitations to participate in completely new ballet productions. I create the image myself and watching the choreographer with other artists - my partners, absorb the process. And the embodiment of historical events is doubly interesting today. It trains the mind, intelligence and gives wisdom.

My talented and beautiful wife Maria supports me in everything, for which I am madly grateful to her, because only with the total support of such a crazy creative person, as I, everything will be embodied in the most excellent versions. "

Born in Moscow. In 2006, he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Pedagogue Natalia Revich) and was adopted in the Bolshoi Theater Balt Troupe. Rehearseled under the leadership of Tatiana Golikova.
Maria Vinogradova is the famous leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Currently rehearsed under the leadership of Nina Semizorova.
In her repertoire - the roles such as Frigia (Spartak A. Khachaturian, Choreography Y. Grigorovich), Anastasia (Ivan Grozny and the music of S. Prokofiev, Choreography Y. Grigorovich), Mirta ("Giselle" in the editorial office Asiliev), Giselle ("Giselle" in the editorial office of Yu. Grigorovich), Olga (Onegin "to the music of P. Tchaikovsky, choreography of J. Kranco), Shirin (" Legend of Love "A. Melikova, Choreography Y. Grigorovich), Sylphide (Sylphide H. S. Levenskold in the editorial office of J. Kobborg), Bal ("Hero of Our Time" I. Dhemutsky, Choreography Y. Posokhov, Director K. Serebrennikov), Masha ("Nutcracker" in the editorial office of Yu. Grigorovich).
Photo: Nikolai Majorov

Maria Vinogradova

In the play "Crystal Palace" - the bride of the jester

Beauty-ballerina - the spouse of the famous Ivan Vasilyeva, with whom the love duet will dance.

The participation of the famous soloist of ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater in the Creative Project "Crystal Palace" is a landmark event for a new choreographic performance.

Maria very well understand the exclusivity of the creative process, since the authors of libretto and choreographers in the XIX century are taken for the implementation of historical topics that real events cost.

Equipment of the court joke of the court joke, which lived at the court of the Great Empress Anna John, is a great creative luck, according to Maria Vinogradova. In addition to the complex technical and executive filling of the party, this tragic component is assumed in the image, truly, all the nuances of human experiences and fears that lead to the tragedy. To dance love, joy, fun and "junning", which coexist with suffering, confusion and anxiety is a very complex creative process that Maria lives with Ivan Vasilyev, an outstanding dancer of modernity and her husband.

Maria Allas, Prima Ballerina Bolshoi Theater, the first performer of the leading roles of the most famous performances of the Bolshoi Theater - "Swan Lake", "Esmeralda" and many others. It has the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Participation in the upcoming premiere of the choreographic project "Crystal Palace" Maria Allas considers huge creative luck for all artists involved in the production.
It should be noted that Maria Allas has always been very selective in his repertoire, which she performed outside the walls of the native theater is big. Her love for historical and fabulous Libretto is known to all its creative colleagues and friends. Allas, truly, the princess in his appearance and excellent physical data. The most beautiful images of the ballet theater - Odetta, Aurora, Kitri, Fairy of Lilac, Lady Dryad -
For many years, not only a personal ballerina repertoire, but also performances going on the famous scenes of the Bolshoi Theater are decorated.
Photo: Nikolai Majorov

Maria Allas

In the play "Crystal Palace" - Queen of Diamonds

The party of the Queen of Diamonds, from which the fate of the main characters, its "ice" essence and strict becoming clear to the ballerina as a different one. The choreographer did not have doubts and any other options, except to invite the Queen of Diamonds to the project. Only she is able to geometrically build their courtiers, which the stone behind the stone is asking an ice house, where they will be lovers. The tragic beauty that Maria Allas embodies in the performance is, is, truly, the work of art that brings the ballerina's real creative pleasure.

Anna Aglatova, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. Opera singer, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. During the first exit to the scene, there was a participant in many prestigious international competitions, had solo
Performances throughout Europe. In 2005, executing the party to Nasenta in Opere Falstaf, made his debut in the Bolshoi Theater, becoming his most young soloist. Since then, it is occupied by almost all opera stage of the theater.

In the play "Crystal Palace" - Opera Diva

"This project is unique primarily because at the stage there is a plexus of the two most bohemian arts, operas and ballet. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe director is so organic that, I am sure, the viewer will be fascinated by the appearance of the opera singer on the stage next to the sophisticated ballet artists.

It is always interesting to do something first. My main task on the stage is always - perfectly singing and be actress. In this formulation, I will add more graceful to its tasks. "

Maria Golubanka is a famous Russian actress of cinema and theater. Grew in the family of famous artists, Larisa Goluboyna, who is known to the viewer for the brilliant film "Hussarskaya Ballad", and Andrei Mironova, all the loved ones in the legendary films "Diamond Hand", "Man With Capuchin Boulevard" and many others.
Maria Golubanka worked at the Moscow Theater of Satira and in the Moscow Drama Theater. Pushkin, played in films like "French", "Ed Adam", in the series "Leningrad" and "Yesenin". In addition, Maria - Master of Sports on horseback sports and regularly participates in the races, which is important, after all, Anna John, whose role is performed by Maria, will appear on the scene on the horse.

Maria Golubanka

In the play "Crystal Palace" - Empress Anna Ioannovna

"It is a great honor for me to be in this project. This is a new theatrical experience for me. I have never participated in the theater ballet formulation of this scale.

I am proud of the story of my country, because who does not remember his past, there is no future. I want the history of Russia to find out as many people as possible.

The baroque period is one of my most beloved, so touching this era causes me a hearty trep.

My heroine, Anna John, in one of the scenes appears riding a horse. In general, animals very often appear on world theatrical scenes. But it is always not easy, with them you need to work a lot, as well as follow safety.

I owe my love for horses, I owe a grandfather and his stories about the beauty and mind of horses, which his parents were bred. From nine years I am engaged in a dressing and having a big prize horse. "

Pavel Klinineev,
Conductor Bolshoi Theater

Behind the conductor console This evening will stand Maestro - the famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theater. In his repertoire, almost all ballets that went on stage in the last 20 years, including the "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Nutcracker" P. Tchaikovsky, "Raymond" A. Glazunov, "Golden Age", " Bolt "and" Light Creek "D. Shostakovich," Romeo and Juliet "S. Prokofiev and" Ivan Grozny "on the music of S. Prokofiev and many others

Under his leadership, the premieres of twelve ballet performances took place in the Bolshoi Theater, from the recent - "Spring sacred" I. Stravinsky (2013), "Variations on the topic of Frank Bridge" on the music of B. Britten, "Symphony of Psalms" to the music of I. Stravinsky , "Undina" H. V. Henz and the "Golden Age" D. Shostakovich (all - in 2016).

In 2014, Pavel Clinuxy became the winner of the Golden Mask Prize in the nomination "Best Conductor in Ballet" for the performance of "Cantus Arcticus / Arctic songs" to the music of E. Rautavaara.

In 2015, the Golden Mask was awarded for the performance of "Flarelika".

In the 2015/2016 season, it was immediately nominated for the "Golden Mask" award, Romeo and Juliet (Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater), Undina and "Variations on Frank Bridge" (Big Theater).

In 2017, Pavel Klinineev became the winner of the Golden Mask Prize in the nomination "Best Conductor in Ballet" for the performance of "Undina" H.V. Henza.

The director of the performance is, the honored worker of the culture of Russia, the director, the invited balletmaster of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. We are already with her about the production of the "Crystal Palace" in №2 "Maltese messenger", where she revealed to us many secrets of the upcoming event.

The player of the performance is the famous balletmaster, a former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater.

The basis for the play "Crystal Palace" was the music of the modern composer, our compatriot, with whose creativity we were able to get acquainted during the V Maltese International Music Festival and fully enjoy them.

Choir Stagecoach Malta.

In the formulation will also take part big Theater Corregal Dancers and artists of the Ballet of Moscow Theaters, Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra , Khor. Stagecoach Malta.and students. We will meet with them in the following issues of "Bulletin", but for now ... We invite everyone to enjoy high art on July 21, 2017 in the Mediterranean Conference Center in Valletta!