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Biography of Galina Ulanova
Name: Galina Ulanova
Birth Date: January 8, 1910
Death Date: March 21, 1998
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: ballerina
Galina Ulanova
The Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova (1910-1998) was hailed as one of the greatest dancers of all time. She won international recognition for her lyricism and purity of technique and for her powerfully dramatic performances.Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova was born in St. Petersburg on January 8, 1910, the only daughter of two dancers at the Maryinsky Theater. As a child Galina was somewhat boisterous and protested when her mother, Maria Romanova, gave her her first ballet lessons, firmly announcing that she did not like dancing. At the age of nine she was unwillingly enrolled as a boarder at the celebrated Theatre School, the training-ground of so many famous Russian dancers. Her strong character obviously prevailed even there. At the end-of-year school production of "La Fille Mal Gardee," instead of being cast as a dainty peasant girl Galina Ulanova made her first appearance on stage as a boy in a clog dance!Gradually her love …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…and a short neck, but she had a commitment to tireless structured training within a rigorous system, which allowed her to reach the pinnacle of her art within the Soviet training program. She occupies a place with Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Markova as the supreme expression of the ballerina. Further Reading Ulanova has written, collaborated, and contributed to ballet literature in Ballerina's School (Moscow, 1954); Soviet Ballet (London, 1954); Prokofiev: Articles, Reminiscences (Moscow, 1956); The Bolshoi Ballet Story (1959); Ballet Today (London, 1957). She gave interviews of note to Dance Scene (1980) and Dancing Times (London, August 1983).Books about Ulanova include Albert Kahn, Days with Ulanova (1962); M. Sizova, Ulanova: Her Childhood and Schooldays (London, 1962); Natalia Roslavleva, Era of Russian Ballet (London, 1966); Vladimir Golubov, Galina Ulanova's Dance (Leningrad, 1948); Yuri Sloniminsky, The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet (Moscow, 1956); Boris Lvov-Anokhon, Ulanova (Moscow and London, 1956); and Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Ulanova and the Development of Soviet Ballet (London, 1952) and Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (Moscow, 1961).
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