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School Philosophy
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year Vaganova (Russian) Syllabus
Agrippina Vaganova was a ballerina of the Imperial Theatre
in St. Petersburg, Russia prior to the revolution of 1917.
When she retired from her performance career she dedicated
the rest of her life to the development of a system of teaching
that would far surpass anything that had gone before. This
system was to impact the world of ballet dancers and teachers
far beyond anyone's expectations.
Vaganova began teaching in 1919 and taught for over ten years
before she began to codify her method. From 1931 until her
death in 1951, she devoted her life to developing this extraordinary
and singular method of teaching classical ballet. Today Vaganova's
work lives on through her students and her students' students.
 Her
method has been taught at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg,
Russia for over seventy years and continues to be taught there
today. This is the method that has produced many of the world's
greatest dancers. This impressive list of names includes:
N. Makarova, R. Nureyev, M. Baryshnikov, G. Ulanova, M. Semyonova,
N. Dudinskaya, I. Kolpakova, and many others perhaps less
well-known in the west.
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