Anna Plisetskaya: the last representative of the dynasty
The glory of the ministers of Terpsichore (the goddess of dance), inthe difference from great musicians, painters or poets, is experiencing the creative age for quite a while, unfortunately. The inhabitants of the most famous dancers can judge judgments mainly on the few images, the memoirs of their contemporaries, and a little later on the photographs. And only in recent years there was an amazing opportunity to capture the dance on film. Anna Plisetskaya is a young representative of the Plisetskiy-Messerer dynasty. Little fame came to her as a child when she played Jane Banks in the film about the extraordinary nanny Mary Poppins.
Childhood
Little Anna Plisetskaya was born inthe capital of the Soviet Union - in Moscow - August 18, 1971. Mama Anechka, Marianna Sedova, was a Bolshoi dancer, father, Alexander Plisetskiy (brother of Maya Plisetskaya), a choreographer. There is a family legend that the name of the girl was invented by herself Maya Plisetskaya, her great aunt. Just at that time her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, was completing work on Anna Karenina. Here is the ballerina and came to the family of the brother with the offer of this name. My parents did not mind.
The family moved to Latin America, so Ani's childhood passed there, in Lima. Her father founded a ballet there.
The debut in the cinematography of the little Anechka took place when she turned three years old. She played a tiny episodic role in the film "Anna Karenina" (director Margarita Pilikhina).
City on the Neva
Once more, she appeared on the screen in the movie "Mary Poppins, Goodbye." She was chosen to be the daughter of the four Banks - Jane Banks. It was 1984.
Today about moving to the northern city of LeningradAnna Plisetskaya speaks with ease and appreciation. She realizes that this was her lucky ticket to the future. But at the age of nine, it was a tragedy for her. Then she cried with burning tears, sincerely not understanding why at the mention of her surname the leadership of the choreographic school begins to worry too much.
Lady Mary ...
In Vaganovsky, a girl of great promise,met quite affably. And after a couple of years, when she turned into an excellent pupil and became a promising ballerina, she was quietly released to the capital for a vacation, to shoot a picture about the unusual nanny Mary.
Since the release of the film on the screens it's been thirty years already. But still this time Anna Plisetskaya recalls with a special feeling. On the set, she happened to see how the famous Soviet actors play, having imbued them with the magic power of art.
She was invited to try the second director of thismovie. Then Anna found out that before that a huge number of children were looked through. By the way, many of them took part in the final scene of the picture. Before the nanny leaves for good, the adult characters of this story have the opportunity to meet their childhood.
First achievements
Anna Plisetskaya, biography which interests many ballet connoisseurs,I somehow remembered that she liked herself in this film. As she said in an interview, there she was a good, correct girl. True, she did not manage to enjoy in full the glory that had fallen upon her after the picture came out on the screens: she had no childhood as such, the school had a fairly rich schedule; the students went up at eight in the morning and went to bed at eleven in the evening. And the success of her was already constant, but on the stage. By this time Anna Plisetskaya already danced solo in Mariinsky. The schedule was quite tight, so there was not a lot of memories left of filming.
It is possible that her luck was variable. And here the “fault” is not only the last name. The peak of her career on the stage came in the difficult 90s. The situation was such that she came to leave the Mariinsky Theater, although she did not really want to. There were very few performances now, but she was a young ballerina and really wanted to work. But here in a month she received an amount equal to the ballerina’s fee for one working day in the West. Almost all of her fellow students went abroad. But Anna wanted to dance in her homeland. And she began to make money by independently organizing performances. This did not like the artistic director. He told her that Plisetskaya has no right to speak anywhere. I had to part with native walls ...
Yes, it sounds rather strange "pensioner in 36years old". But she tried herself in different guises. Plisetskaya plays in performances, works on a vocal program (she likes to sing very much) and gives concerts. She has a dream - to act in films.
She has a pretty strong ballet repertoire. She danced in “Russkaya”, “Giselle”, “Polovtsian dances”, “Swan Lake”, “Sylphide” and many others. But not afraid to look at other forms of art. For three years, from 2000 to 2003, in a team with the collective of the Rossiya Plisetskaya State Central Concert Hall, whose ballets have always been a small miracle, worked to create a program that could embody the idea of developing gifted and professional children in various fields: , ballet, music and circus art.
In recent years, she organizes concerts and works on staging performances.
Relationship with aunt
As a rule, in an interview, journalists oftenthey ask Anna the question of what kind of relationship she has with the great ballerina of the twentieth century, who is also her father’s sister, Maya Plisetskaya. But Anna never loved such interference in her family. She answered very simply: relationships are as close as possible to two people living in different countries. In addition, she never worked at the Bolshoi Theater as an aunt, so there was never any competition or jealousy.
But there is one question that never givesAnswer Anna Plisetskaya. The ballerina’s personal life is left without a single comment from her. On the one hand, she does not consider herself to be a star person enough to be discussed without stopping, on the other she is sure that this side of her life is her only, and she does not intend to devote outsiders to this world.
