Vera Volkova

Vera Volkova (Russian: Bepa Boлкoвa; (31 May 1905 – 5 May 1975) was a Russian ballet dancer and expatriate dance teacher.

Born in Tomsk, she trained at Petrograd's Akim Volynsky's School of Russian Ballet. She also studied with the renowned Russian ballet mistress Agrippina Vaganova. She danced professionally with various ensembles such as the GATOB and the Flying Russian Ballet before defecting in 1929.^[1]

She spent a number of years teaching at the Sadler's Wells Ballet and Sadler's Wells Ballet School, training some of the leading English dancers of the 20th Century. She also taught at the Ballet School of the La Scala Theatre in Milan. She became a permanent teacher at the Royal Danish Ballet school in the 1950s, again training some of the school's greatest dancers.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Students

Carla Fracci, former Principal of Italian La Scala theatre
Alicia Alonso, Cuban Prima Ballerina Assoluta and founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Erik Bruhn, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet
Henry Danton, former Soloist of the Sadler's Wells Ballet
Dame Margot Fonteyn, English Prima Ballerina Assoluta of The Royal Ballet
Henning Kronstam, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet
Dame Gillian Lynne, former Principal of The Royal Ballet, now a renowned musical theatre chroeographer
Peter Martins, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet and New York City Ballet
Sir Peter Wright, former Principal dancer and Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Eva Evdokimova, international guest dancer, recognised as a Prima Ballerina Assoluta
Sir Kenneth MacMillan, artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977^[3]

Bibliography

Alexander Meinertz, 'Vera Volkova, a biography', Alton, Hampshire : Dance Books, 2007, 186 p. ISBN 978-1-85273-111-3.
Camille Hardy, 'Vera Volkova Revealed, A Biography, By Alexander Meinertz', Dance Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 2, May 2008, pp. 279–284. doi:10.1080/01472520802118525.

References

↑ Meinertz, Alexander. Vera Volkova – a biography (Alton: Dance Books 2007); ISBN 978 1852731113.
↑ Eliza Gaynor Minden (2007). The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-416-59571-7.
1 2 Jann Parry (2010). Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan. Faber & Faber. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-571-27451-2.
↑ Sasha Anawalt (1998). The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company. University of Chicago Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-226-01755-6.
↑ Leo Lerman (2009). The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-307-49574-7.
↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (2010). Britannica Book of the Year 2010. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-615-35366-8.

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[1] Meinertz, Alexander. Vera Volkova – a biography (Alton: Dance Books 2007); ISBN 978 1852731113.

[2] Eliza Gaynor Minden (2007). The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-416-59571-7.

[parry-3] 1 2 Jann Parry (2010). Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan. Faber & Faber. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-571-27451-2.

[4] Sasha Anawalt (1998). The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company. University of Chicago Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-226-01755-6.

[5] Leo Lerman (2009). The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-307-49574-7.

[6] Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (2010). Britannica Book of the Year 2010. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-615-35366-8.