i have it, that’s for sure, the theater podcast is on the air and i, its host anton getman, we continue the conversation with the prima ballerina of the bolshoi theater svetlana zakharova. light, you moved to st. petersburg, new teachers, new classmates, or probably already classmates, it’s correct to say, new requirements, something fundamentally changed when i arrived in...

by the way, anyway, the child is already psychologically ready, well, yes, even if technically i was ready to go dance in the theater at that moment, but psychologically i was not ready and someone explained to you why this happened, and they explained it to me, then at that moment the rector nadirov was there, he said that the council decided that you need to graduate quickly and go to work in the theater, that is, in the marinsky theater, of course, what am i even talking about .

the parallel class was very good from the parallel class the girls we were, well , they lived in the next rooms with me, many of them, and we were very friends, it was surprising for me it was a revelation that i had come as a stranger, one might say a stranger, and they accepted me like that class, they worked with me a lot, we worked out, the girls and i went for walks. there are shops, museums, a theater, there was such a quest, let’s say, to ride like a hare from zocha voroshi, come take the tram, get to the theater without paying money, and so everyone stood there, so, well, it was such an adrenaline rush, such a thing - to cook, to eat, we also somehow all did this in a group, well, somehow we still maintain warm relations, now many have already finished dancing from...

they stand there, fortunately they dance a lot, here i am in the carde ballet i haven't danced for a single day they immediately started giving me solo parts, at first they were very small, there were twos, fours, i danced first the big swans, everyone knows the dance of the little swans, in this one yes, yes, in marinka it’s a four, there’s a different version yes, that’s it - i danced the big ones swans, and the first solo part is yours,

the heroine, maria, who danced, this ballet was once staged for galina sergeevna milanova, and i and also zarema, everyone remembers maya mikhailovna plesetskaya in this part, well, in general, at the marinsky theater this performance, which i also performed there, is still on, and i danced maria, that is, i understood that ballet is divided into two characters, so when i danced giselle for the first time, then i really felt myself. ballerina

, the next stage is the bolshoi theater in 2003, yes, again a change of school, again a change of city, again a change of team and again a change of teacher, but still... at that moment it was such a close relative for me, that is, this the teacher who made me a ballerina, all the ballerina parts, she passed everything on to me, she was vaganova’s student, that is, she was so much...