Tatiana Stepanova
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Tatiana Victorovna Stepanova, also Tetyana Stepanova, (born 1962, Odessa
, Ukraine
then Soviet Union
) is a Ballet master
, choreographer, ballet dancer, critic
, essayist and historian
of the dance.
, complete its formation as the dancer in the State School of Ballet and Choreography of Minsk
² (Belarus
) where was pupil of Vera Shvetsova
(distinguished disciple of Agrippina Vaganova), that danced in the Maly Theatre
of Saint Petersburg
(Russia
) and in the Great Theater of it Opera and Ballet of Riga (Latvia
).
Graduated in Choreographic Art in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
³, Russia (The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory), where was a student of Gabriella Komleva, Nikita Dolgushin and Nicolai Boyarchikov, Big Dancers of the Mariinsky Theatre
(before Kirov Ballet) and of the Mikhaylovsky Theatre
(before Maly Theatre
) both in Saint Petersburg.
She danced as the soloist in the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater¹ (Ukraine) and in the Great Theater of Ballet of Minsk² (Belarus).
Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odessa (Ukraine), Saratov
and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid
, Valencia, Puertollano
and Lugo
(Spain
) and Ashiya
and Nishinomiya (Japan
)
Founder and Artistic Director of the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance (Instituto de Investigación y Estudios de Danza) in Madrid (Spain).
It has published numerous articles of criticism in newspapers and weeklies of Ukraine (Vecherniaya Odessal), Russia (Glásnost
, Perestroika
and Dance
), Spain (El Cultural of La Razón
) and United States
.
Teacher of the purity and of the maintenance of the original versions of the choreographic inheritance of the classical ballet, its short version of The Sleeping Beauty (1h 20'), is the current work that better maintains the bequest of Marius Petipa
, so much in the steps conserved, as in them added that he would have done its. This version premiered itself December seven, 2008, in the Hyogo Performing Arts Center4 (Nishinomiya, Japan
), under the title of Sleeping Beauty Suite.
At present directs the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance in Madrid, (Spain) and is the Artistic Director of the AIS Ballet Japan in Ashiya (Japan).
of works of Marius Petipa
, that she reordena of magisterial form, reinterpreting the pieces and managing to join its steps with the of the master one galoruso, in an inverse osmosis, where is dificil to distinguish the parts of the two choreographers.
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
then 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....
) is a Ballet master
Ballet Master
Ballet Master is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company...
, choreographer, ballet dancer, critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
, essayist and historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
of the dance.
Biography
Tatiana Stepanova began her ballet training in the Special School of Ballet of Odessa (Ukraine) student of Klaudia Vasina, that was a disciple of the Great Dancer and Russian teacher Agrippina VaganovaAgrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method - the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though...
, complete its formation as the dancer in the State School of Ballet and Choreography of Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
² (Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
) where was pupil of Vera Shvetsova
Vera Shvetsova
Vera Shvetsova is a Ballet teacher and balletmaster Russian, Vera Shvetsova was trained by the famous teatcher Vaganova and was one of Vaganova’s best students....
(distinguished disciple of Agrippina Vaganova), that danced in the Maly Theatre
Maly theatre
The Maly Theatre, or Mali Theatre, may refer to one of several different theatres:* The Maly Theatre , also known as The State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia, in Moscow...
of Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
(Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
) and in the Great Theater of it Opera and Ballet of Riga (Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
).
Graduated in Choreographic Art in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...
³, Russia (The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory), where was a student of Gabriella Komleva, Nikita Dolgushin and Nicolai Boyarchikov, Big Dancers of 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...
(before Kirov Ballet) and of the Mikhaylovsky Theatre
Mikhaylovsky Theatre
The Mikhaylovsky Theatre is one of the oldest opera and ballet houses in Russia. It was founded in 1833 and is situated in a historical building on the Arts Square in St. Petersburg...
(before Maly Theatre
Maly theatre
The Maly Theatre, or Mali Theatre, may refer to one of several different theatres:* The Maly Theatre , also known as The State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia, in Moscow...
) both in Saint Petersburg.
She danced as the soloist in the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater¹ (Ukraine) and in the Great Theater of Ballet of Minsk² (Belarus).
Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odessa (Ukraine), Saratov
Saratov
-Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...
and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Valencia, Puertollano
Puertollano
Puertollano is an industrial city in province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is situated on the AVE High Speed Train line linking Madrid and Seville . The city has a population of 51,842 .- Legend of the lie :...
and Lugo
Lugo
Lugo is a city in northwestern Spain, in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 97,635 in 2010, which makes is the fourth most populated city in Galicia.-Population:...
(Spain
Spain
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) and Ashiya
Ashiya
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and Nishinomiya (Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
)
Founder and Artistic Director of the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance (Instituto de Investigación y Estudios de Danza) in Madrid (Spain).
It has published numerous articles of criticism in newspapers and weeklies of Ukraine (Vecherniaya Odessal), Russia (Glásnost
Glasnost
Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s...
, Perestroika
Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
and Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
), Spain (El Cultural of La Razón
La Razón (Madrid)
La Razón is Spain's fifth highest-circulation general-interest daily newspaper based in Madrid. It is the newest of the five most read, having been founded in 1998 by Luis Maria Ansón....
) and United States
United States
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.
Teacher of the purity and of the maintenance of the original versions of the choreographic inheritance of the classical ballet, its short version of The Sleeping Beauty (1h 20'), is the current work that better maintains the bequest of 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....
, so much in the steps conserved, as in them added that he would have done its. This version premiered itself December seven, 2008, in the Hyogo Performing Arts Center4 (Nishinomiya, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
), under the title of Sleeping Beauty Suite.
At present directs the Institute of Investigation and Studies of Dance in Madrid, (Spain) and is the Artistic Director of the AIS Ballet Japan in Ashiya (Japan).
Miniature
- Incrustación carmesí (2002) Crimson Inlay
- Dama rota (2002) Broken Lady
- El Chocolate del loro (2003) The Chocolate of the parrot
- Torre eclipsada (2005) Tower eclipsed
- Jaula de vientos (2005) Cage of winds
- Jaula de loros (2006) Cage of parrots
- Suite azul (2006) Blue Suite
- Remolinos de Naruto (2007) Swirls of Naruto
- Arcadia (2007) Arcady
- Nectar amargo (2007) Nectar bitter
- The death of the nine swans (2009)
Madrid’s Choreographic
- Arena (Sports Suite) (2004) music of D. Shostakovich.
- Nieblas en Baden-Baden (Fogs in Baden-Baden) (2005) Recognized as one of the few Criminal Ballet that exist, where a detective investigation is danced, starred in by José Antonio Checa.
- Mozarito (2006), with music of Mozart and for the purpose of honoring to the same one in the 250 anniversary of its birth, was starred in by the dancer José Antonio Checa and sponsored by the Department of the Arts of the Community of Madrid. Dance and rolled in the Palace of the Duke of Ugena, historic headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid (Cámara de Comercio e Industria de Madrid).
Ashiya’s Diptych
Inside the choreographic work of Tatiana Stepanova emphasizes its Diptych of Ashiya, formed by SuiteSuite
In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
of works of 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....
, that she reordena of magisterial form, reinterpreting the pieces and managing to join its steps with the of the master one galoruso, in an inverse osmosis, where is dificil to distinguish the parts of the two choreographers.
- Sleeping Beauty Suite (2008), (1h 20'), Music of Tchaikovsky.
- La Bayadède (2010), (1h 33'), Music of Minkus, This version premiered itself January 24, 2010 in the Grand Hall of Hyogo Performing Arts Center, (Nishinomiya, Japan)
External links
- http://www.conservatory.ru Web site of Saint Petersburg Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian and English.
- http://www.ais-ballet.com Japanese.
- http://www.gcenter-hyogo.jp Japanese and English.
- http://www.nacbibl.org.by/ Web site of National Academy of the Great Theater of Ballet of the Republic of Belarus, Russian and English.
- http://www.elcultural.es/version_papel/TEATRO/13991/Bailes_para_la_primavera/