Cover of "Russian Life"

[LazerCanary]

I chanced by a magazine shop carrying the common and the rare. Of course

anything with dancers on the cover always catches my eye. If you have not

seen the Nov/Dec 2004 issue of "Russian Life", it features Svetlana Zakharova

and Sergei Filin beautifully in mid-jump, lovely legs extended straight down

through the toe points. What a fabulously lovely pairing. She is dress in the

costume for the Pharoah's Daughter. I made a photocopy for my office wall

to show people what beauty and lines really means!

The article is about "Behind the Bolshoi: Backstage at the great ballet company".

Not a bad piece. You should be able to acquire copies of the magazine on www.russianlife.net. If anything, just for this oh so wonderful photo.

~Lazer Canary

[Natalia]

Thanks for mentioning this, Lazer. That fabulous photo (by Igor Zakharkin) of Zakharova/Filin on the cover of the magazine, by the way, is the same one that graces the cover of the commercially-available DVD of 'Pharaoh's Daughter' (so far only in Europe...soon to North Am?). I found the photos inside the magazine even more fascinating, as they are unique to the magazine, e.g., Marina Semyonova teaching class or Svetlana Zakharova being coached by Ludmilla Semenyaka. Much of the 10-page article -- by Yaroslav Sedov -- focuses on those three ladies who I've named.

- Natalia Nabatova