Biography
Russian ballet is rightfully considered one of the wonders of the world. At the production of the Bolshoi Theater, seeks to visit everyone who, at least a little interested in art and wishes to touch the beautiful. Prices-ballerina cause enthusiastic love in the world. Among the legends of the ballet, the name of Natalia Igorevna is immortal.Childhood and youth
The future prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater was born at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War - July 19, 1941 - in Moscow. Family girls are far from creativity. Father - the doctor went to the front, and Mom is a housewife, raised his daughter and led a household. Woman with Natalia spent wartime in evacuation.
Fortunately, the family managed to survive difficult years and after the end of the war to reunite. Two years later, Natasha appeared the younger sister Tatiana. Mom girls paid attention to the development of creative talents of children.
Since both daughters of immortal loved to dance, the woman decided to give girls to the Moscow choreographic school. By the way, the younger sister of Natalia achieved success in creativity, solired in the batches of the Bolshoi Theater, but remained in the shadow of the stellar prince.
The beginning of studying the ballet was held in the student in the class of the legendary mentor M. A. Kozhukhova. The girl was her favorite. In 1959, a couple of years before the issue of the group, the teacher went away. The end of the school passed for Natalia under the leadership of S. N. Golovkin. Brilliantly passing the exam, after following 48 Fuete, Immortalova received the highest assessment of teachers. The biography of Young Beauty with bottomless eyes was forever connected with Russian ballet.
Ballet
Immediately after the release from the School in 1961, Natalia Igorevna received an invitation to the Bolshoi Theater's troupe. Leonid Lavrovsky, being the main balletmaster, adored the young ballerina and saw the perfect partner in the girl on the scene for the son of Mikhail Lavrovsky. It was with him Natalia danced most of the parties in the theater.
Initially, Galina Ulanova was appointed mentor and assistant for a new star. Unfortunately, women did not find a common language, and Lavrovsky worked independently with the favorite.
Yesterday's graduates of Immortalov and Lavrovsky debuted in professional ballet, perforing the leading parties on the stage in Sopenian. Elegance, refinement, flexibility and plasticity of ballerina, ease of hand determined the role of romantic heroine as an amplua immortal.
In 1963, Natalia Igorevna first goes to the theater scene in the role of Giselle in the same name. This party has become the brightest for immortal. For life, Ballerina performed her about 200 times. She became the last in the dancer's career.
Conquer the hearts of the audience, Natalia is immortalov, becomes a barrier of the main theater of the country. Over the decades of work on the scene, Ballerina danced fully classic theater repertoire, toured the world and shone in the role of lyrical heroines. Critics of the world admire how independently, naturally the girl holds on stage. Natalia Igorevna did not just play the party, the girl lived in dance.
In 1988, the ballerina was fired from the theater troupe. Chief Balletmaster, Yuri Grigorovich, Spouse of the Great Ballet Artist, is forced to update the team. Troupe needed young talents, and the previous composition was sent to a creative retirement.
By the way, Prima did not upset the departure from the leading composition. At that time, creative ballerina ambitions have already been realized, Natalia Immortalov managed to dance all possible main parties.
The relationship between the ballerina and the theater did not stop at this. In Big Immortal, it remains as a teacher, and in performances and touring participates under the contract. After in 1995, the spouse was dismissed from the team as a result of the etching and scandals with the leadership, Natalia Igorevna helps her husband in performing performances. Couple cooperates with Russian and foreign teams.
The photos, preserved after the legendary brilliant productions, in which star prima, concert film performances with her participation - now it is a heritage and the Golden Fund of the Russian Ballet. The entry records of the scene became visual lessons for today's students of choreographic schools. Memories of art historians, critics, kollerina colleagues are collected in the illustrated edition of the book "Unforgettable. Natalia Immortalova, "published in 2008.
Personal life
With a big theater, not only ballerina's career was connected, but also a personal life. In 1968, the girl marries Yuri Grigorovich, the main balletmaster of the theater (since 1964). Despite the skepticism of envious and environment, the couple lived in love and harmony for more than 40 years. Only departure from the life of Natalia Igorevna separated spouses.
Grigorovich Bentwood Natalia for talent, vital wisdom, grace. For her husband, the spouse remained a friend, beloved, a muse and a companion. The balletmaster confessed that he had performances not for his wife, but for the Great Ballerina, immortal.
After the scandalous etching of Grigorovich in the theater Natalia Igorevna personally brought a statement of her husband about dismissal by leadership. The care of the balletmaster from the team caused a strike of supporters among colleagues who refused to go on stage. The organizer was considered to be immortal. The theater star was fired, but Natalia Igorevna successfully challenged the decision in court.
The decision to restore the rights of the artist brought to the theater along with his own statement about the care. Immortalov left the big one who pretended for more than 30 years of creative biography, with proudly raised head.
Until the end of the life, the woman supported the creative career ideas of his beloved husband, helped in the formulation and implementation of performances on the scene.
Unfortunately, children from spouses did not appear. Natalia Igorevna shared that he did not oppose a full-fledged family, but at first there was no time for the birth of a child, and then did not happen by itself. Replaced his native son for the nephew Mikhail.
Contemporaries recalled that the immortal was not distinguished by sociable, and the nature of the prick was not called easy. However, colleagues respected and appreciated the talent and diligence of the stars of the scene. In the usual life of Natalia Igorevna loved reading books, walks, adored music and travel.
Death
The last years of life were for the dancer filled with pain. For a long time, doctors could not make a diagnosis, and Immortalov at that time was tormented by unbearable suffering.
Vitaly Wulf, being a close friend of the family, recalled: the pain became so strong that life seemed unbearable even for the resistant spirit of the ballerina. In the hospital ward was allowed to enter only the nephew Michael, sister Tatyana and his beloved husband.
Despite the disease, the star of the ballet scene continued to take care of the affairs and happiness of the spouse. When Grigorovich offered a working business trip to Seoul, insmentially insisted on the need for a trip.
As soon as the spouse left the country, the ballerina rapidly became worse, on February 19, 2008 Natalia Igorevna died. The official cause of the death of the physician was called cancer, severe kidney disease. The spouse flew to his homeland the first flight, having learned about the worsening of his wife's health, but I did not have time to see Natalia.
Already after the funeral of the ballerina, at the commemoration ceremony, the Director General of the theater read an order for the restoration of Yuri Nikolayevich with a regular choreographer.
Party
- 1961 - "Shopenian"
- 1963 - autumn in the ballet "Cinderella"
- 1963 - Giselle in Ballet "Giselle"
- 1963 - Princess Florin, fairy tenderness in ballet "Sleeping Beauty"
- 1964 - Muza in the ballet "Paganini"
- 1964 - Leyly in the ballet "Leyly and Medezhnun"
- 1965 - Odetta Odile in the ballet "Swan Lake"
- 1965 - Shirin in the ballet "Legend of Love"
- 1967 - Girl in the ballet "Vision of Roses"
- 1968 - Frigia in the ballet "Spartak"
- 1968 - Masha in the ballet "Nutcracker"
- 1970 - Kitrie in the ballet "Don Quixote"
- 1973 - Aurora in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty"
- 1975 - Anastasia in the ballet "Ivan Grozny"
- 1976 - Valentine in the ballet "Angara"
- 1979 - Juliet in the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"
- 1982 - Rita in the ballet "Golden Age"
- 1984 - Raymond in the ballet "Raymond"