Natalia Makarova
Natalia Makarova is a ballet dancer born in Russia. His representative works include "Swan Lake" and "Giselle".
Chinese name: Natalia Makarova
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Ballet dancer
Representative works: Swan Lake, Giselle
Performing experience
On September 4, 1970, he joined the American Ballet Theater (hereinafter referred to as "ABT"), starting with the premiere of "Giselle" A new artistic career. He has performed a large number of repertoires at ABT and has collaborated with many masters, such as Anthony. Tudor, George. Balanchine, Jerome. Robbins and Glenn. Tetley et al.
Started cooperating with the Royal Ballet in 1972, performing repertoire including "Sleeping Beauty", "La Sylphide", "Manon", "Song of the Earth", "January in the Country", and "Concerto"
As a guest artist with the Paris Opera Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Royal Danish Ballet, London Festival Ballet, La Scala, Béjart’s 20th Century Ballet and Roland. Petit's Marseille Ballet. The repertoire includes "Onegin" (winner of London's "Evening Standard Award" in 1985), "La Bayadere", "The Firebird", "Don Quixote", "Coppelia", "The Unstoppable Daughter", "Notre Dame de Paris", "Carmen", "Proust", "The Young Man and Death", John. Cranko's "Romeo and Juliet," "Raymunda" and "The Sylphide."
The person who specially created and choreographed ballet works for N. Makarova was Jerome. Robbins, Ashton, Tetley, Macmillan, John. Neumeier, Roland. Petit's, Béjart, von. Hoek, Wolf. Gad.
In 1974, he choreographed "The Kingdom of Ghosts" in the third act of "La Bayadere" for ABT.
In 1980, ABT choreographed the complete dance drama "La Bayadere", making ABT the first Western ballet company to rehearse the play. For the first time, N. Makarova adapted the last scene of the play based on M. Petipa's original work, restoring the original dramatic structure and conflicts of this famous work.
Rehearsed "The Kingdom of Darkness" for many national ballet companies. Such as the National Ballet of Canada, English National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, etc., and also for the Royal Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Australian Ballet, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires
Created a new version of "Swan Lake" for the London Festival Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera of Rio de Janeiro.
Created "Paquita" for ABT, National Ballet of Canada, Universal Ballet of Korea and San Francisco Ballet.
Television works include Ballet Stars, Ballet Stars and Leningrad Legends (BBC), In My Own Class (Channel 4) and Natasha (Thames Television). Filmed the film versions of "Swan Lake", "Giselle", "Romeo and Juliet" and "La Bayadere". Makarova also wrote and presented the BBC documentary "Rail Journey Series" From St. Petersburg to Tashkent.
In 1979, Knopf Publishing House published N. Makarova's "Autobiography of Dance". In 1991, he dubbed "Snow White", "Prince Ivan and the Frog Princess" and "Firebird" produced by Delos Records. All works won the "American Library Association Award".
The first Broadway musical she starred in was "On Pointe", which won the "Tony Award" for "Best Actress in a Musical", the American "Drama Board Award" and "Stanislavsky" Award" and many other awards. In 1984, he starred in "On Pointe" in London's West End and won the "Laurence Olivier Award".
In 1991, as a theater actor, he premiered the musical "Comrade" at the Chichester Festival in England, and then moved to London's West End.
In 1992, the stage play "The Hatred Girl and the Fool" was performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 1997, he performed George. Bernard Shaw's play The Wrong Marriage.
Miss Makarova's most recent performances in England have been:
Elvira in Noel Coward's play "The Merry Spirit".
The works he has staged and directed include: "Giselle" (2000) for the Royal Swedish Ballet, "Sleeping Beauty" (2003) for the Royal Ballet,
Swan Lake (2005) by the Tchaikovsky Palm Ballet in Russia
La Bayadere (2007) by the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Personal Honors
In 1991, he dubbed "Snow White", "Prince Ivan and the Frog Princess" and "Firebird" produced by Delos Records, and all his works won won the American Library Association Award.
The first Broadway musical she starred in was "On Pointe", which won the "Tony Award" for "Best Actress in a Musical", the American "Drama Board Award" and "Stanislavsky" Award" and many other awards.
In 1984, he starred in "On Pointe" in London's West End and won the "Laurence Olivier Award".
In 1991, as a theater actor, he premiered the musical "Comrade" at the Chichester Festival in England, and then moved to London's West End.
In 1992, the stage play "The Hatred Girl and the Fool" was performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 1997, he performed George at the Chichester Arts Festival. Bernard Shaw's play The Wrong Marriage.
Miss Makarova's most recent performances in the UK are:
Noel. Coward's play "The Merry Spirit", playing the role of Elvira.
The works he has staged and directed include: "Giselle" (2000) for the Royal Swedish Ballet, "Sleeping Beauty" (2003) for the Royal Ballet,
Swan Lake (2005) by the Tchaikovsky Palm Ballet in Russia
La Bayadere (2007) by the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Performances in China
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Ballet of China, a series of performances commemorate the 50th anniversary of China National Ballet’s premiere of the world classic ballet "Swan Lake" and the world ballet superstar Natalia· Makarova's version of "Swan Lake" Peking University premieres ballet "Swan Lake"