mayichka

I would love to get copies of anyhting recent(ish)of the Kirov or Bolshoi. Particularly of Uliana Lopatkina, Maya Dumchenko, Nadecha Gracheva, Anastasia Volochkova.

I would be fantastic to have a copy of Gelsey Kirkland dancing in any role.

I have be through my video collection and I have ballets that have been commercially releasd in Britain. I also have a lot of documentries on dancers young and old- Bussell to Markova. I have a few documentries on Natalia Makarova that was recorded over here in the 1980's, it has her dancing some of the usuallsto the not so.

This is a small over view of what I have but if there is anything thet I might have that would interest you then please get in contact with me, and if you have anything then I would be extremly happy to swap with you.

I forgot to add that I found it kind of touching that Natalia Makarova described Osipenko as a "friend." I've known several ballet students, including one who studied at the Vaganova Academy, and she said that ballerinas are NOT friendly to each other, EVER. They might admire each other, but friends? No. Ballerinas and male danseurs is a different story. So the fact that Makarova and Osipenko remained friends is to me delightful.

oh yes yes:)) they aaalways talk so nice about eachother,Natalia even payed for Alla's surgery:))ahh Natashinka,i love her so so much

Letterman interviewed Natalia Makarova years ago and I found it painful. This occurred well before 1989 and he kept pushing her to talk about whether she would ever be able to go back to Russia. As I remember, the subject caused her visible distress and he would not drop it. She finally said something along the lines of 'I thought this was supposed to be a funny show' -- At the time I really blamed him and essentially became "anti" Letterman. Years later I did get over that, and I don't know what I would think if I were to see a repeat of that same interview now.

I also recall a Nureyev interview, some years before that, that took place (I think) on one of the afternoon talk shows--probably Mike Douglas--in which the interviewer said something to Nureyev along the lines of "You left [the Soviet Union] for freedom" and he replied immediately and, I thought, quite brilliantly, "for independence."

where can i find that letterman's show with Natalia Makarova on line? does somebody of you have it?