Yulia Makhalina
Yulia Victorovna Makhalina (Russian: Юлия Викторовна Махалина), also Yulia, (born 23 June 1968) is a Russian ballet dancer. Since 1986, she has been with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet where she is a principal dancer. Along with Ulyana Lopatkina, Makhalina is a member of 'the basketball team', a group of Kirov dancers who are characterized for being especially tall and slender.[1][2]
Biography
Born in
Makhalina danced the leading role of Medora in
A member of the Mariinsky Ballet since 1986, she has performed the leading roles in Swan Lake,
Reviews
After a 1989 performance as
During the Kirov Ballet's 1992 performance of Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, a reviewer for The New Leader wrote: "Although Makhalina is impressive standing still, when she moves one can see what she is missing: liberty. She has 'plastique' but lacks pulse and impulse; each step is labored, exact to a fault."[12]
Makhalina received a positive review from New York Magazine in 1995 for her performance as Zobeide in Mikhail Fokine's Scheherazade. Dance critic Tobi Tobias wrote that "what was most endearing was her willing participation in a tale that, to a contemporary audience, is likely to seem ludicrously primitive and overblown".[13]
Nina Alovert, a well known ballet photographer and writer, wrote that she first took note of Makhalina in 1987 during a performance of Paquita writing that Makhalina "immediately stood out among several young dancers with her 180-degree extension", noting also her "soft landing" during jumps. Like other reviewers, she also noted Makhalina's "physical beauty".[3]
Awards
Yulia Makhalina has won many prestigious awards including:[7]
- 1990: Gold Medal, Paris International Ballet Competition
- 1998: Prix Benois de la Danse
- 2008: People's Artist of Russia
References
- ^ Ng, Kevin (25 July 2005). "Kirov Female dancers". ballet.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ a b Hodouchi, Ayano (20 May 2010). "Bliss for ballet buffs". The Moscow News. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ a b c Alovert, Nina (1995-06-01). "Yulia Makhalina: A Twentieth-Century Petersburg Ballerina". Dance Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ Yulia Makhalina & Igor Zelensky (1990). Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. St. Petersburg, Russia: NVC Arts.
- ^ "Makhalina, Julia Victorovna". Personalities of St. Petersburg. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ^ "Yulia Makhalina". Kirov. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ a b c "Yulia Makhalina". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ^ Swoboda, Victor (14 January 2014). "Tradition reigns at Gala des Étoiles du ballet russe". The Gazette. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Tschiene, Petra (10 May 2003). "An Interview with Yulia Makhalina of the Mariinsky/Kirov Ballet". Critical Dance. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Tobias, Tobi (1989-07-31). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC.
- ^ Kriegsman, Alan M. (1989-07-31). "Dance;In Short, The Kirov At Its Best;Legendary Troupe's Near-Perfect Night". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-29 – via High Beam.
- ^ Jacobs, Laura (1992-08-10). "Swan Lake. (Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York)". The New Leader. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-29 – via High Beam.
- ^ Tobias, Tobi (1995-07-17). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC.