People’s Artist of the RSFSR, director of the Moscow Classical Ballet Theatre, artist Natalia Kasatkina, who died on Thursday, always advocated for the survival of classical ballet. Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova told socialbites.ca about this. Kasatkina’s death is a great loss for Russian ballet because people of the same level cannot replace her, she said.
“With Natalia Kasatkina we had many creative connections not only in creativity, but also in life. This is a great man who always defended classical ballet and encountered a lot of opposition when many letters were written at the Mariinsky Theater asking for the removal of some classical productions from various structures, both because they were not needed and because they were not needed. It’s in great competition with what’s going on. He always maintained that classical ballet should live and exist. This is a huge loss for Russian ballet, because now, if you look at a situation where there are no stars in the ballet world, no known names, and most importantly, no teachers, it turns out that masters have appeared. Important names in the great ballet art pass away and people of this level do not replace them. There will be no more such people. “I offer my condolences to all his loved ones and will pray for him,” he said.
According to Volochkova, Kasatkina helped the ballerina in difficult times when she was illegally expelled from the Bolshoi Theater and provided performers from her troupe for the performance.
“In my case, I can say that Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilev saw the injustice that was happening at the Bolshoi Theater when I was illegally fired. I have already created my own concert show, a performance has been created, it was held in the Kremlin Palace. It was a big show, like the Bolshoi Theater’s response to all the attacks against me. And I have always and will respond to all attacks with nothing but creativity. And Natalia Kasatkina gave me artists from her group to participate in my shows in the most difficult times when everyone returned. I am very grateful to him for this. “I know he respects me as much as I respect him,” she added.
On March 14, it became known that the People’s Artist of the RSFSR, artist Natalia Kasatkina, head of the Moscow Classical Ballet Theatre. dead 89 years old in Moscow. The date and place of the farewell are not yet known.
Natalia Kasatkina was born in Moscow on June 7, 1934. She graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School (Moscow State Choreographic Academy) in 1953. She danced at the Bolshoi Theater from 1954 to 1976, making her debut in the roles of Besnovataya in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring”, Rock in Georges Bizet-Rodion Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite” and many others. The stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
She has been a choreographer and screenwriter since the 1960s, working in creative collaboration with her husband, dancer and choreographer Vladimir Vasilev. Kasatkina and Vasilev became artistic directors of the Classical Ballet Concert Company in 1977, and in 1992 they headed the State Classical Ballet Theater under the direction of N. Kasatkina and V. Vasilev.
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