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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30The only weapon I had was my dancing, Maya Plisitskaya.
00:38One of the legendary ballerinas of her generation, Maya Plisitskaya was born in Moscow in 1925.
00:45Both sides of her family were Jewish.
00:47Her father, Mikhail, was an engineer and communist idealist.
00:51Her mother, Rakil, belonged to a famous Russian-Jewish theatrical clan, the Messiers,
00:56which included actors as well as members of the celebrated Bolshoi Ballet.
01:02Balleic influence came from her mother's sister and brother, Suleimuth and Mikhail Messier,
01:07both talented soloists and later distinguished teachers with the Bolshoi Ballet.
01:12In 1932, the family moved to Svalbard, where Mikhail Plisitskaya was the first director of Arctic Google,
01:20and then consul of the USSR.
01:23In Svalbard, 11-year-old Maya first appeared on the scene.
01:27But in 1937, her parents were arrested as enemies of the people,
01:32and her aunt took her in and saved her for being sent to the orphanages.
01:35Before her parents were arrested in 1934, Plisitskaya entered the Bolshoi Ballet School.
01:42Her gifts were obvious.
01:43She was long, lean, and musical, with an appetite for movement and a natural jump.
01:49She was placed in the class of Elisivita Gert,
01:52a former Mariinsky ballerina whose dancing radiated the harmony and academic virtuosity
01:57of the old St. Petersburg School.
02:00Maya's first significant performance was held on the eve of the fatal day for the Soviet Union,
02:06in less than one day before the start of World War II.
02:09In 1943, she joined the Bolshoi.
02:13Her rise was rapid.
02:14In the first season, she performed more than 20 important roles,
02:18rehearsing some of them, including the mazurka in Chopinjana,
02:22and the lilac fairy in The Sleeping Beauty.
02:24In the years that followed, plum roles came her way.
02:28Myrtha in Giselle, the title role in Raimonda,
02:31the dual role of Odette O'Dyle in Swan Lake,
02:34Kytri in Don Quixote,
02:37the Bashante in the Walpurgis Night scene from Faust,
02:40and the title role in Larencia.
02:43Maya Plzitzkaia was married twice.
02:45Her first husband became the choreographer Maurice Liipa,
02:49but their family life lasted only three months.
02:52Maya met her second husband, Rodion Shedron,
02:55while visiting Lilja Brick.
02:57In the fall of 1958, they got married.
03:00Quote,
03:01He extended my creative life for at least 25 years, end quote,
03:05Plzitzkaia wrote about her husband.
03:07Rodion supported her and defended her interests against the Soviet government.
03:11It is thanks to his efforts that Prima had the opportunity to travel abroad.
03:15However, despite the happy marriage, the couple never had children.
03:19The path to the top of her career can be compared to climbing the stairs.
03:24Step by step, Maya got her major parts.
03:26For example, in the ballet Sleeping Beauty, she firstly was the Lilac Fairy,
03:31then Violet Fairy, and then Aurora.
03:34From the first steps on the stage, people could see her bright individuality
03:38and an extraordinary expressiveness, passion, dynamics of dance.
03:43In November 1962, the Bolshoi Theater came to Washington,
03:47and it was the first time Maya Plzitzkaia went abroad.
03:51Previously barred from foreign travel because of her family history,
03:54she now became an international star.
03:58Unlike any other Soviet dancer of the period,
04:00she worked abroad, appearing in ballets choreographed for her by Roman Petit and Maurice Béjart.
04:06Maya also served as artistic director of the Rome Opera Ballet
04:10and the Ballet del Teatro Lariso Nacional in Madrid.
04:15Since the 1990s, she lived in Munich.
04:17Prima ballerina of Bolshoi Theater and famous all-over-the-world dancer,
04:22she became a symbol of its era, a standard for copying and emulating.
04:27Maya Plzitzkaia's career stretches over 60 years.
04:31As her age makes it harder for her to perform at the same athletic level she did in her youth,
04:36she has turned to teaching,
04:38influencing an entirely new generation of ballet dancers.
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