by Laura Cappelle | Nov 15, 2011 | Company Life
Zakharova in Yuri Possokhov’s Cinderella. Photo by Marc Haegeman. You’re coming back from maternity leave. How does it feel? It’s not easy! But as soon as I stepped back in the studio, I told myself: Svetlana, you have time to get back in shape....
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
We have to hand it to the Russians. Olympic opening ceremonies are always brilliant spectacles, but rarely do they involve appearances by world-class ballet dancers. Last Friday night, the Sochi opening ceremony offered a smorgasbord of rich, theatrical images, many...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
These days, we know Svetlana Zakharova as an international ballet superstar. As a young student at St. Petersburg’s prestigious Vaganova Academy, however, she was…well, still a superstar, just on a slightly smaller scale. Here are some excerpts from her...