Natalia Makarova
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Nataliya Romanovna Makarova is the legendary Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that “Her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation.” She has also won awards as an actress.
with the Kirov Ballet in London in 1961, which became one of her signature roles.
On September 4, l970, while on tour in London with the Kirov, Makarova requested asylum in Britain - a defection which stunned the ballet world. She began her new career by joining the American Ballet Theatre
, making her debut with the Company in Giselle
on Dec 22, 1970. She danced American Ballet Theatre’s vast repertory including all the classical ballets & their contemporary repertoire - working extensively with Choreographers Antony Tudor (Dark Elegies, The Lilac Garden, Pillar of Fire
, Romeo and Juliet
), George Balanchine (Theme and Variations, Apollo
), Jerome Robbins (Other Dances
) and Glen Tetley (Voluntaries, Contredances).
Her association with The Royal Ballet began in 1972 dancing ballets by Macmillan including Manon
, Romeo & Juliet, and Song of the Earth; Ashton’s Month in the Country & Cinderella and many other ballets from the Royal’s repertoire. Makarova has appeared as Guest Artist with ballet companies around the world including Paris Opera Ballet
, Stuttgart Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Berlin Ballet, London Festival Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Munich Ballet, Bejart’s Ballet of the 20th Century; Roland Petit’s Ballet de Marseille; Royal Swedish Ballet & Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro, Ballet de Santiago, Pact Ballet Johannesburg; Scottish National Ballet & Australia’s Victoria Ballet.
Among the ballets and pas de deux created for Makarova are Robbin’s Other Dances
(with Baryshnikov); Ashton’s Le Rossignol (with Dowell), Tetley’s Contredances (with Dowell); a MacMillan Pas de deux (with MacLeary), John Neumeier's Epilogues (with Erik Bruhn), Petit’s Blue Angel; Bejart’s Mephisto (With Jorge Donn); Sacre du Printemps (Taras); Four Seasons (Choreography Serge Lifar) from I Vespri Siciliani (Maria Callas staged her first operatic production – Torino); Neumeier’s Elegie a Pas de Deux (with Patrick Bissell); Meditation by Haigen; Giulietta Masina in Fellini by Van Hoecke (with Jean Babilee).
Makarova staged the Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère
for American Ballet Theatre in l974. In 1980 she staged the full-length production of La Bayadère. American Ballet Theatre was the first Western company to acquire this work. Her production included for the first time since 1919 a reconstruction of the last act, with Makarova’s choreography after Marius Petipa
, restoring the original dramatic structure and impact of this early masterpiece.
Makarova’s A Dance Autobiography was published by Knopf in 1979. In 1991 she recorded a narration of The Snow Queen
, Prince Ivan and The Frog Princess and The Firebird
for Delos Records. She added a new dimension to her multi-faceted career when she made her musical comedy debut in 1983 on Broadway in On Your Toes
, winning numerous awards including the Tony Award
for Best Actress in a Musical and in 1984, she starred in the West End, London production of On Your Toes
, for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award.
On February 1, 1989, after 19 years’ absence, Makarova was the first artistic exile to be invited back to perform in the Soviet Union
. She returned to her native Leningrad
where she was reunited with her family, friends, former colleagues & teachers and danced with the Kirov Ballet on the stage where she began her illustrious career. Makarova donated her costume from Onegin & pointe shoes to the Ballet Museum in Leningrad commemorating her last performance in classical ballet. A documentary of her historic visit, Makarova Returns, was shown on BBC television.
In 1991, she made her debut as a dramatic actress in the Chichester Festival’s production of Tovarich, which transferred to the West End in London. She returned to Russia in 1992 in the play Two for the Seesaw
, giving performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1997 she starred in the Chichester Festival production of George Bernard Shaw’s play Misalliance
. She appeared in the l999 Charleston Festival in a special presentation of the letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes in a play called Wooing in Absence. In January 2000, she was invited to perform the play at the Tate Gallery in London and in 2001 at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2000, she also appeared as Elvira in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit
at the Palace Theatre in England.
Natalia Makarova continues to stage classical ballets throughout the world passing on her knowledge to a new generation of dancers. In 2010 American Ballet Theatre celebrated the 30th Anniversary of her production of La Bayadère
at the Metropolitan Opera House and in November, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Mariinsky Theatre
paid tribute to her in a Gala performance in her honor.
American Ballet Theatre: Lilac Garden; Dark Elegies; Romeo & Juliet & Pillar of Fire; Theme & Variations & Apollo; La Bayadère
; Kingdom of the Shades; Coppelia
; Voluntaries; Fille Mal Gardee; La Sylphide
; Don Quixote; Nutcracker; Raymonda
Act 3; Contredances; Sacre du Printemps (Tetley); Firebird
; Concerto; Giselle
; Swan Lake
; Romeo & Juliet (MacMillan); Sleeping Beauty
, Les Sylphides
, Other Dances
; Epilogue; Miraculous Mandarin; Pas de Quatre
; The River; Études; Moor's Pavane; Romeo & Juliet Pas de Deux (Tchernishov); Desir & Wild Boy.
Royal Ballet: - Manon
; Song of the Earth; A Month in the Country
; Concerto; Cinderella; Voluntaries; Dances at a Gathering
; Serenade; Elite Syncopations; Month in the Country; Concerto; Checkmate; Les Biches
; Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet; Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, Van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier; MacMillan Pas de Deux & Ashton’s Dream Pas de Deux.
As Guest Artist with ballet companies throughout the world her repertoire included: the classical repertoire (Giselle, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, La Sylphide) and Onegin
(Cranko); Notre Dame de Paris, Carmen, Proust, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
(Petit); Romeo and Juliet (Cranko), Swan Lake (Cranko), Neumeier’s Illusions - Like Swan Lake 2nd Act, Bach Sonata (Bejart); Nutcracker (Neumeier); Romeo & Juliet (full-length version Tchernishov); Le Rossignol (Ashton); Rosalinda (Hynd); Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine); Apparitions (Ashton); Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins); Meditation (Haigen) The Real McCoy (Feld) The Lesson (Flindt), The Toreador (Bourneville); Dying Swan; Corsaire Pas de Deux & Don Quixote Pas de Deux.
Biography
Natalia Makarova began her career in her native Leningrad, entering the renowned Vaganova School (Formerly the Imperial Ballet School) at the age of 13 where she was placed in a special experimental class condensing the nine-year program into six. After graduating in 1959, she joined the Kirov Ballet, rapidly rising to the rank of Ballerina. She came to international prominence when she danced GiselleGiselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
with the Kirov Ballet in London in 1961, which became one of her signature roles.
On September 4, l970, while on tour in London with the Kirov, Makarova requested asylum in Britain - a defection which stunned the ballet world. She began her new career by joining the American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
, making her debut with the Company in Giselle
Giselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
on Dec 22, 1970. She danced American Ballet Theatre’s vast repertory including all the classical ballets & their contemporary repertoire - working extensively with Choreographers Antony Tudor (Dark Elegies, The Lilac Garden, Pillar of Fire
Pillar of Fire
Pillar of Fire can refer to* Pillar of Fire , a manifestation of God in the Tanakh* Pillar of Fire Church, a religious community in Zarephath, New Jersey* Pillar of Fire by Judith Tarr* Pillar of Fire by Antony Tudor...
, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
), George Balanchine (Theme and Variations, Apollo
Apollo
Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
), Jerome Robbins (Other Dances
Other Dances
Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
) and Glen Tetley (Voluntaries, Contredances).
Her association with The Royal Ballet began in 1972 dancing ballets by Macmillan including Manon
Manon
Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost...
, Romeo & Juliet, and Song of the Earth; Ashton’s Month in the Country & Cinderella and many other ballets from the Royal’s repertoire. Makarova has appeared as Guest Artist with ballet companies around the world including Paris Opera Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
, Stuttgart Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Berlin Ballet, London Festival Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Munich Ballet, Bejart’s Ballet of the 20th Century; Roland Petit’s Ballet de Marseille; Royal Swedish Ballet & Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro, Ballet de Santiago, Pact Ballet Johannesburg; Scottish National Ballet & Australia’s Victoria Ballet.
Among the ballets and pas de deux created for Makarova are Robbin’s Other Dances
Other Dances
Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
(with Baryshnikov); Ashton’s Le Rossignol (with Dowell), Tetley’s Contredances (with Dowell); a MacMillan Pas de deux (with MacLeary), John Neumeier's Epilogues (with Erik Bruhn), Petit’s Blue Angel; Bejart’s Mephisto (With Jorge Donn); Sacre du Printemps (Taras); Four Seasons (Choreography Serge Lifar) from I Vespri Siciliani (Maria Callas staged her first operatic production – Torino); Neumeier’s Elegie a Pas de Deux (with Patrick Bissell); Meditation by Haigen; Giulietta Masina in Fellini by Van Hoecke (with Jean Babilee).
Makarova staged the Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
for American Ballet Theatre in l974. In 1980 she staged the full-length production of La Bayadère. American Ballet Theatre was the first Western company to acquire this work. Her production included for the first time since 1919 a reconstruction of the last act, with Makarova’s choreography after Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa
Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived....
, restoring the original dramatic structure and impact of this early masterpiece.
Makarova’s A Dance Autobiography was published by Knopf in 1979. In 1991 she recorded a narration of The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen is a fairy tale by author Hans Christian Andersen . The tale was first published in 1845, and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda....
, Prince Ivan and The Frog Princess and The Firebird
The Firebird
The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
for Delos Records. She added a new dimension to her multi-faceted career when she made her musical comedy debut in 1983 on Broadway in On Your Toes
On Your Toes
On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939....
, winning numerous awards including the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for Best Actress in a Musical and in 1984, she starred in the West End, London production of On Your Toes
On Your Toes
On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939....
, for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award.
On February 1, 1989, after 19 years’ absence, Makarova was the first artistic exile to be invited back to perform in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. She returned to her native Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
where she was reunited with her family, friends, former colleagues & teachers and danced with the Kirov Ballet on the stage where she began her illustrious career. Makarova donated her costume from Onegin & pointe shoes to the Ballet Museum in Leningrad commemorating her last performance in classical ballet. A documentary of her historic visit, Makarova Returns, was shown on BBC television.
In 1991, she made her debut as a dramatic actress in the Chichester Festival’s production of Tovarich, which transferred to the West End in London. She returned to Russia in 1992 in the play Two for the Seesaw
Two for the Seesaw
Two for the Seesaw is a 1962 romance-drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine. It was adapted from the Broadway play written by William Gibson.-Plot:...
, giving performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1997 she starred in the Chichester Festival production of George Bernard Shaw’s play Misalliance
Misalliance
Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw.Misalliance takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England. It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in...
. She appeared in the l999 Charleston Festival in a special presentation of the letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes in a play called Wooing in Absence. In January 2000, she was invited to perform the play at the Tate Gallery in London and in 2001 at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2000, she also appeared as Elvira in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
at the Palace Theatre in England.
Natalia Makarova continues to stage classical ballets throughout the world passing on her knowledge to a new generation of dancers. In 2010 American Ballet Theatre celebrated the 30th Anniversary of her production of La Bayadère
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
at the Metropolitan Opera House and in November, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. The...
paid tribute to her in a Gala performance in her honor.
Personal life
In 1976 Makarova married industrialist Edward Karkar. Together they have a son, Andrei Mikhail, born February 1978.Awards
- 1960’s – Russian Soviet Federation Socialist Republic Merited Artist
- 1965 – Varna International Ballet Competition – Gold Medal
- 1970 – Anna Pavlova Prize & Critic’s Award, Paris
- 1977 – Dance Magazine Award
- 1979 – Mother of the Year Award
- 1980 – A Dance Autobiography, Knopf Publishers, 1979. – Certificate of Excellence – American Institute of Graphic Arts – Selected for Exhibition
- 1983 – Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical – On Your ToesOn Your ToesOn Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939....
(Broadway) - 1983 – Drama Desk Award – On Your Toes (Broadway)
- 1983 – Theatre World Award – On Your Toes (Broadway)
- 1983 – Astaire Award – On Your Toes (Broadway)
- 1983 – Outer Critics Circle Award – On Your Toes (Broadway)
- 1983 – Stanislavsky Award – On Your Toes (Broadway)
- 1984 – Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical – On Your Toes, London
- 1985 – London Evening Standard Award – for the Best Performance of 1985 in the ballet Onegin. Presented on stage by Princess Diana after Makarova’s performance of Onegin in 1986, London
- 1986 – Emmy Award Nomination for Ballerina a 4 Part Documentary TV series, which was conceived, written & narrated by Makarova, BBC London/WNET
- 1991/92 – American Library Association Award – for Makarova’s recordings of the stories Snow Maiden, The Frog Princess & Firebird – Delos Records
- 1993 – Distinguished Artist Award – Los Angeles
- 2000 – Artistic Achievement Award – Mexico
- 2004 – Artistic Achievement Award from the School of American Ballet
Repertoire
As Permanent Guest Artist with American Ballet Theatre & the Royal Ballet her repertoire included:American Ballet Theatre: Lilac Garden; Dark Elegies; Romeo & Juliet & Pillar of Fire; Theme & Variations & Apollo; La Bayadère
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
; Kingdom of the Shades; Coppelia
Coppélia
Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...
; Voluntaries; Fille Mal Gardee; La Sylphide
La Sylphide
La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving romantic ballets. There were two versions of the ballet; the version choreographed by the Danish balletmaster August Bournonville is the only version known to have survived....
; Don Quixote; Nutcracker; Raymonda
Raymonda
Raymonda is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on in St. Petersburg, Russia...
Act 3; Contredances; Sacre du Printemps (Tetley); Firebird
Firebird
-Music:* The Firebird, ballet for which Igor Stravinsky composed the music* Firebird , late 1990s/2000s blues-based power trio* The Firebirds, a rock and roll band from Bristol...
; Concerto; Giselle
Giselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
; Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
; Romeo & Juliet (MacMillan); Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment, and a handsome prince...
, Les Sylphides
Les Sylphides
Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc. Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with music by Frédéric Chopin orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had already set some of the music in 1892 as a purely orchestral suite, under the title Chopiniana, Op. 46...
, Other Dances
Other Dances
Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
; Epilogue; Miraculous Mandarin; Pas de Quatre
Pas de Quatre
Pas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at His Majestys Theatre to music composed by Cesare Pugni....
; The River; Études; Moor's Pavane; Romeo & Juliet Pas de Deux (Tchernishov); Desir & Wild Boy.
Royal Ballet: - Manon
Manon
Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost...
; Song of the Earth; A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country is the fifth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for the Booker Prize. The book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1980.-The story:...
; Concerto; Cinderella; Voluntaries; Dances at a Gathering
Dances at a Gathering
Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...
; Serenade; Elite Syncopations; Month in the Country; Concerto; Checkmate; Les Biches
Les Biches
Les biches is a ballet by Francis Poulenc, premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1924. The composer, who was at the time relatively unknown, was asked by Serge Diaghilev to write a piece based on Glazunov's Les Sylphides, written seventeen years earlier...
; Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet; Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, Van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier; MacMillan Pas de Deux & Ashton’s Dream Pas de Deux.
As Guest Artist with ballet companies throughout the world her repertoire included: the classical repertoire (Giselle, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, La Sylphide) and Onegin
(Cranko); Notre Dame de Paris, Carmen, Proust, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
Le jeune homme et la mort
Le Jeune Homme et La Mort is a ballet by Roland Petit, choreographed in 1946 to Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 , with a one-act libretto by Jean Cocteau. It tells the story of a Young Man driven to suicide by his faithless lover. Sets were by Georges Wakhévitch and costumes variously...
(Petit); Romeo and Juliet (Cranko), Swan Lake (Cranko), Neumeier’s Illusions - Like Swan Lake 2nd Act, Bach Sonata (Bejart); Nutcracker (Neumeier); Romeo & Juliet (full-length version Tchernishov); Le Rossignol (Ashton); Rosalinda (Hynd); Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine); Apparitions (Ashton); Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins); Meditation (Haigen) The Real McCoy (Feld) The Lesson (Flindt), The Toreador (Bourneville); Dying Swan; Corsaire Pas de Deux & Don Quixote Pas de Deux.
Productions - Staged & Directed by Natalia Makarova (first stagings)
- 1974 – Kingdom of the Shades – American Ballet Theatre
- 1980 – La BayadèreLa BayadèreLa Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
– American Ballet Theatre - 1983 – PaquitaPaquitaPaquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes, with libretto by Joseph Mazilier and Paul Foucher. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Edouard Deldevez. First presented by at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera Ballet on 1 April 1846...
– American Ballet Theatre - 1984 – Kingdom of the Shades – National Ballet of Canada
- 1985 – Kingdom of the Shades – London Festival Ballet
- 1986 – Kingdom of the Shades – Teatro Municipal – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 1988 – Swan LakeSwan LakeSwan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
– London Festival Ballet - 1989 – La Bayadère – Royal Swedish Ballet
- 1989 – La Bayadère – Royal Ballet – Covent Garden – London
- 1991 – Paquita – National Ballet of Canada
- 1991 – Paquita - Universal Ballet Company of Seoul, Korea
- 1992 – La Bayadère – La Scala Ballet
- 1992 – La Bayadère – Teatro Colon, Argentina
- 1997 – La Bayadère – Finnish National Ballet
- 1997 – La Bayadère – Ballet de Santiago, Chile
- 1998 – La Bayadère – Australian Ballet
- 2000 – Kingdom of the Shades – San Francisco Ballet
- 2000 – GiselleGiselleGiselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
– Royal Swedish Ballet - 2000 – La Bayadère – Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
- 2001 – Swan Lake – Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
- 2002 – La Bayadère – Hamburg Ballet
- 2003 – Sleeping BeautySleeping BeautySleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment, and a handsome prince...
– Royal Ballet – Covent Garden – London - 2002 – Paquita – San Francisco Ballet
- 2004 – La Bayadère – Theatr Wieki Opera Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland
- 2005 – Swan Lake – Perm Ballet Russia
- 2007 – La Bayadère – Dutch National Ballet
- 2007 – Swan Lake – National Ballet of China
- 2008 – La Bayadère – Corella Ballet, Teatro Real, Madrid
- 2009 – La Bayadère – Tokyo Ballet
Filmography
- 1970 – BBC-TV – Black SwanBlack SwanThe Black Swan is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic...
Pas de Deux with Rudolf Nureyev & Dying Swan - 1976 – Swan LakeSwan LakeSwan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
with Ivan Nagy at the Metropolitan Opera House – Live from Lincoln Center – American Ballet Theatre. - 1976 – Don Quixote Pas de deux & GiselleGiselleGiselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
Act 2 (Partner Baryshnikov) BBC TV London. - 1977 – Giselle with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the Metropolitan Opera House – Live From Lincoln Center - American Ballet Theatre
- 1978 – Don Quixote Pas de Deux with Fernando Bujones at the Metropolitan Opera House – Live From Lincoln Center – American Ballet Theatre.
- 1978 – Jerome Robbin’s Other DancesOther DancesOther Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
with Mikhail Baryshnikov - WNET - 1979 – Assoluta – Natalia Makarova – BBC TV, London
- 1979 – The Magic of Dance
- 1980 – Makarova’s production of La BayadèreLa BayadèreLa Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
with Anthony Dowell at the Metropolitan Opera House - Live from Lincoln Center – American Ballet Theatre - 1980 – Swan Lake with Anthony Dowell – Royal Ballet, Thames TV, London
- 1981 – The President's Command Performance– The Inaugural Gala Performance for President Elect Ronald Reagan, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
- 1983 – Stars Salute the President – Ford Theatre, Washington, DC (For President Reagan)
- 1984 – Gala of the Stars– Proust (Petit) with Cragun & Begin the Beguine (Gennaro) with Cryst, WNET, Radio City, New York
- 1985 – Natasha - Natalia Makarova – National Video Corporation/Kultur USA
- 1985 – American Ballet Theater in San Francisco– National Video Corp.
- 1985 – In a Class of Her Own– Natalia Makarova – THAMES TV – London
- 1985 – American Ballet Theatre at the Met– Makarova’s PAQUITA filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- 1986 – Ballerina– 4 Part series for BBC TV
- 1988 – The First International Erik Bruhn Competition – Guest Appearance by Natalia Makarova
- 1988 – Reunion With the Kirov Ballet - White Swan with Zaklinsky – BBC London live Broadcast
- 1988 – Romeo & Juliet (MacMillan) with Kevin Mckenzie at the Metropolitan Opera House – Live from Lincoln Center – American Ballet Theatre.
- 1989 – Makarova Returns – BBC-TV, London/Kultur, USA
- 1989 – Lenningrad Legend – BBC-TV Omnibus,London/ Kultur USA
- 1989 – Swan Lake – Natalia Makarova’s Production for London Festival Ballet
- 1991 – La Bayadère – Natalia Makarova’s Production for the Royal Ballet – From Covent Garden – Cameras Continentales, Amaya & Thames
- 1991 – A Portrait of Giselle
- 1994 – BBC Great Railway Journeys– St. Petersburg to Tashkent - Written & Presented by Natalia Makarova
- 2007 – La Bayadère – Natalia Makarova’s production for La Scala Ballet, Milan.
- 2009 – La Bayadère – Natalia Makarova’s production for the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London.
- 2011 – Natalia Makarova Two Lives - Russian Documentary