ALTYNAI ASYLMURATOVA
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 557.
Magjan Jumabayev
(1893-1938)
Magjan Jumabayev is a poet, a translator, a writer, an educator, a journalist and a publicist. He was born in Bulaevsky district of North-Kazakhstan region. He studied in a medresse (a religious school) in Ufa (Central Russia). In 1913 Jumabayev entered the teachers' seminary (college). In 1923-1927 he studied at Moscow Literary Institute.
Jumabayev translated some works by Lenin, Gorky, Ivanov, Mamin-Sibiriak and by other authors into Kazakh. From 1927 he devoted himself to the pedagogical activities.
Jumabayev is a great Kazakh poet. People call him "Kazakh Pushkin”. His well-known poems are "Korkyt", "Batyr Bayan", and collected poems "Sholpan".
Altynai Asylmuratova (born 1961) is a former Soviet and Kazakhstani prima ballerina with the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre and a guest artist all over the world.
Asylmuratova was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakstan, and after graduation from the Vaganova Choreographic Institute she joined the Kirov Ballet in 1978. After four years in the corps de ballet, she was promoted to Principal Dancer in 1982.
Asylmuratova became if anything more popular in Western theaters than her "home" theater due to her frequent guest appearances abroad, including Roland Petit's company. She was much admired both for her looks and the beauty of her dancing. Her repertoire included all the classical ballet rôles in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Don Quixote and La Bayadère, Romeo and Juliet, works by choreographer George Balanchine and Roland Petit. She is married to fellow Mariinsky dancer Konstantin Zaklinsky, but her most frequent partner was Farouk Ruzimatov.
Videos of her dancing in Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Les Sylphides, and The Sleeping Beauty are available. In addition, Asylmuratova was the subject of a 1982 documentary Backstage at the Kirov which followed her as she prepared to dance the lead in Swan Lake.
In 2000 she was appointed Artistic Director of the Vaganova Choreographic Institute. Soon she retired from dancing and afterwards concentrated all her energy on the Vaganova Academy.
Vocabulary:
à guest artist – áàëåðèíà ïî ïðèãëàøåíèþ
the corps de ballet – êîðäåáàëåò
to be appointed – áûòü íàçíà÷åííûì íà äîëæíîñòü
to retire – âûéòè íà ïåíñèþ
Ø True or False:
1. Altynai graduated from the Kirov Ballet School in 1978.
2. Altynai is more popular in Kazakhstan than in Western theatres.
3. Her repertoire included all the classical ballet roles.
4. You can watch a lot of videos of her dancing.
5. She is still dancing in the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre.
Ø Find 10 international words.
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