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[Estelle]

I only saw that dancer in a video of "The Stone Flower" by the Kirov Ballet (with also Tatiana Terekhova and Aleksandr Gulayev).
She danced the main female role, and I found her really lovely, with a kind of softness which really made me feel like
seeing her in roles such as "Giselle" or "La Sylphide".

Later I've read that she left the Kirov Ballet and joined John Neumeier's Hamburg
Ballet. Has anybody here seen her on stage, or on other
videos? What were your impressions?

[Natalia]

I'm sure that our NY colleagues in this newsgroup can provide the latest impressions of Polikarpova, as she performed with Hamburg Ballet on its 1998 NY tour.  I saw her "live" only with the Kirov and competing at the first (1994 or 95) La Maya Prize contest in St. Petes, where she won a medal. [She was already a member of the Hamburg Ballet at the time of the competition.] Indeed, she is a very lovely and soft dancer, if a bit cold emotionally. I believe that she's on the "Mariinsky Ballet" video (Home Vision label) dancing one of the three female solo roles in CHOPINIANA....I'm working from memory now as I'm not at home where my database is located. I definitely have a video of her CHOPINIANA. If it's not the tape that I cited, I'll correct myself tomorrow. - Jeannie

[Kevin Ng]

I saw Anna Polikarpova in Hong Kong in February during the Hamburg Ballet's short season.  She was a moving Helena in Neumeier's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".  Her Kirov training showed in her expressive upper body. In "Bernstein Dances" she danced as one of the friends of Bernstein.

Before Polikarpova left the Kirov Ballet, I remember only seeing her once in Washington as one of the 3 muses in Balanchine's Apollo.  However I cannot find the Kirov programme to verify this.

[Estelle]

I found a page about her on the Hamburg Ballet web site:
http://www.hamburgba...olikarpova1.htm
She is a principal dancer there since 1994.

[dirac]

The Kirov video mentioned above is also available as "Mariinsky (that's how they spelled it) Theatre: Kirov Classics" by RM Arts ISBN 1-56127-086-5.  It also has the Corsaire pas de deux and a couple of Vinogradov ballets.