About svetlana zakharova biography book

  • It is not an auto-biography, but a collection of pictures made by an extraordinary photographer Pierluigi Abbondanza, to whom like to express my personal thanks.
  • Dear friends, The book which you are holding in your hands now is my very first book.
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    Born into a family of photographers, Pierluigi Abbondanza was interested in his

    parents’ job since childhood. While following the traditional studies, he kept pursuing

    his interest until, at the age of 27, he started his first personal activity, dedicated to

    landscapes and portraits.

    When he was 38 years old, he met the fascinating world of Ballet for the first time.

    With the purpose of better understanding its secrets, he started taking ballet classes

    and, in the meantime, he started photographing lessons and shows. Invited by La

    Scala Ballet School in Milan, he continued photographing lessons for 4 years, with his

    results so appreciated that his pictures were chosen for the Porselli Calendar in

    During the same period, for two years, he continued and even took pictures in the

    Rome National Academy, and finally he was asked by Marika Besobrasova, director

    of the Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace, to take pictures of the last show

    of the year.

    From , he starte

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    Dear friends, The book which you are holding in your hands now is my very first book. It is not an auto-biography, but a collection of pictures made by an extraordinary photographer Pierluigi Abbondanza, to whom like to express my personal thanks! If you're wondering whyI chose to put mytrust in him, I'm sure you will understand it leafing through the pages of this book. He and his camera have followed me for around two years in many different theaters in various cities and countries, including myf avorite Bolshoi and La Scala. Only few people know how hard it is to take pictures of ballet dancers, to get hold of that ideal moment, to capture a beautiful position or movement and above all those live emotions which can often become easily inaccessible due to the distance from stage to people in the audience. With the help of this book like to man that distance shorter and tell you a little story, showing my artistic life as it is, without any emb

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    Dancing Queen: the Bolshoi’s Svetlana Zakharova on her love affair with London

    “Queen of the Bolshoi and all she surveys,” wrote Debra Craine in The Times, reviewing Svetlana Zakharova on the opening night of the Bolshoi’s recent Covent Garden residency. “And doesn’t she know it.” Observing her high cheekbones and regal posture, I wonder whether the legends about the prima ballerina’s frosty demeanour towards journalists are true. Sitting opposite her – on a slightly lower sofa – I quietly quake as my audience with Zakharova begins.

    But my fears are completely unfounded. Perhaps recognising my translator, Anna Ovsyanikova, helps. Anna’s father, Valery, is Music Director of the Vaganova Academy who was on the panel when Zakharova was invited to join the famous St Petersburg Academy. Zakharova relaxes, her heart-shaped face wreathed in gracious smiles, as we discuss the current Bolshoi Ballet tour and her new programme