Glory to the ministers of Terpsichore (goddess of dance),unlike the great musicians, painters or poets, experiencing a creative age quite a bit, unfortunately. On the best famous dancers, the inhabitants can be judged mainly by the few images, the memoirs of their contemporaries, and a little later - by the photos. And only in recent years there was an amazing opportunity to capture the dance on film. Anna Plisetskaya is a young representative of the Plisetsky-Messerer dynasty. A 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. Anya's mother, Marianna Sedova, was a Bolshoi ballet dancer, a father, Alexander Plisetsky (Maya Plisetskaya's brother), a choreographer. There is a family legend that the name of the girl came up with herself Maya Plisetskaya, her great aunt. Just at that time, her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, was finalizing work on Anna Karenina. That ballerina and came to the family of the brother with the proposal of the name. Parents were not against.
The family moved to Latin America, so Ani's childhood passed there, in Lima. Her father founded a ballet there.
She made her film debut with little Anechka when she was three years old. She played a tiny episodic role in the film “Anna Karenina” (directed by Margarita Pilykhina).
City on the Neva
Once again she appeared on the screens 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 gratitude. She understands 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 last name, the leadership of the choreographic school begins to worry too much.
Lady Mary ...
In Vaganovsky girl, promising,met quite friendly. And already after a couple of years, when she turned into an excellent student and became a promising ballet dancer, they quietly let her go to the capital for a vacation, to shoot a picture of an unusual babysitter Mary.
Thirty years have passed since the movie was released. But still this time Anna Plisetskaya remembers with a special feeling. On the set, she happened to see the famous Soviet actors playing, being fed up with the magic power of art from them.
She was invited to sample the second director of thisthe movie. Then Anna learned that before that they had looked through a huge number of children. By the way, many of them took part in the final scene of the painting. Before the nanny flies away forever, the adult characters of this story get the opportunity to meet with 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. Yes, and her success was already constant, but on stage. By this time Anna Plisetskaya already danced solo in Mariinsky. The schedule was quite tight, so there was not a lot of memory left of the filming.
It is possible that her luck was variable.And here the “fault” is not only the surname. The peak of her career on the scene 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 staged 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 organizing performances on her own. This did not like 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 loves to sing) 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 on creating a program that could embody the idea of developing gifted and professional children in various fields: in the field of opera , 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 liked such interference in her family. She answered very simply: the relationship is as close as possible to two people living in different countries. In addition, she never worked in 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 starry enough person who could be continuously discussed, 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.
