Julia Viktorovna Makhalina is a well-known Russian ballerina, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater, a teacher in ballet classes, as well as a laureate and winner of many awards such as Golden Spotlight and Benois de la Danse.
General biography
The name of Julia Makhalina today is well known to most people who at least somehow seek to comprehend Russian national art. Julia Makhalina is a ballerina who, like many of her colleagues, helped to elevate the Russian ballet school to extraordinary heights, showing the whole world the perfect mastery of Russian dancers and dancers.
The woman’s repertoire currently has an almost record number of parties: the ballerina not only brilliantly played the world-famous roles in Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty, but she was also a kind of innovator in many other ballets by unknown authors. Is it necessary to say that after Julia Makhalina danced a role in an unknown performance, he was rapidly gaining popularity?
Childhood
It is worth starting with the origins of a talented dancer who lead to the beautiful and ancient city on the Neva - Leningrad, and now St. Petersburg. It was there that in 1968 on June 23 the future artist was born. From birth, fate decided to check Makhalina for strength - at a young age the girl was given a terrible diagnosis - paralysis of the leg, which is why Julia was very limp. There could be no talk of any dances then, but they turned out to be the best medicine for the little girl. Without hesitation, Makhalina's parents give her daughter to the ballet class, which helps her fight the ailment. And the choice of therapy was absolutely right.
Already at the age of 15, the girl demonstrates outstanding success in dance. She is endowed with natural flexibility, and lameness disappears without a trace from the fate of a young ballerina. Her talent is noted by Konstantin Sergeyev, a well-known ballet dancer and choreographer at that time. And all in the same 15 years, a girl dances on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater to Raymond from the ballet of the same name and the role of Medora from "Corsair".
early years
Success begins to accompany the young ballerina, however, there was always a lot of envious people around, who at any moment were ready to prick the girl for the slightest flaw or oversight. Such a drawback has long been considered external data by Makhalina. Overly tall, with long arms and legs, a slightly disproportionate girl shone on the stage, overshadowing the classy outwardly classmates. Julia Makhalina, whose height, weight and overall proportions were far from ballet standards, brought to art along with a new look and new technique. That is why no one can simply point out the lack of a ballerina, which lies in her great growth - Makhalina has long introduced the ballerinas' stats into fashion.
The first appearance on the stages of the Mariinsky Theater opens many doors to the ballerina. At 16, she amazingly plays the leading role in The Nutcracker, and a year later, on graduation from her native ballet class, the girl dances Odile in the pas de deux in the ballet Swan Lake. A year later, the girl graduated from the A. Ya. Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. And at the same time, her further training continues at the Leningrad State Opera and Ballet Theater, which is now called the Mariinsky Theater.
First successes
It was at the Mariinsky Theater that Yulia Makhalina, following the creative career of adult ballerinas, gained the experience a novice dancer needed. She hones her skills, taking up any performances that are offered to her, and in every girl she carefully puts her whole soul.
If in adolescence the Swan Lake performed by the girl was deprived of the drama and touchingness that should have been present in this story, now Julia Makhalina performed the role of Odette impeccably sensually. It was a real success, and one of the very first and significant dancers in her career.
Mariinskii Opera House
Studying at the Mariinsky Theater was not easy, probably not a single ballerina in history, however, each of them individually and all together became a symbol of this place, the soul of it and of all Russian ballet.
Julia received great inspiration within the walls of this theater: I wanted not only to improve, but to show my level to everyone else. Therefore, thanks to work with excellent teachers, very soon Makhalina became one of the favorites of the theater. Olga Moiseeva and Gennady Selyutsky are teachers whom the girl will never forget, since it was they who directed the young ballerina, helped her build and play roles, discussed new parties with her and corrected mistakes in the old ones. As a result: after 4 years of study, Julia Makhalina received the status of prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater. She became the standard, a woman who introduced her famous aplomb and high step on the big stage.
Ballet "Anna Karenina"
Throughout her career, the ballerina has danced sixteen different major roles, some of which were well known to the public, while others were unknown at all. One of such "unknown" roles was the part of Anna Karenina in the ballet of the same name.
Book-based productions have always been much more complicated than original composer's ideas. If the image, which the composer vaguely showed in his work, could be represented as anything, then the book heroes obeyed a strict framework. And movements, and costumes, and even emotions - everything had to correspond to the description of the author and required precise execution in order to truly entice the viewer.
Makhalina became the first performer of this party and, as introduced, one of the best. According to the ballerina herself, this performance could never have been danced by a woman who did not know this novel and did not understand the whole story of Anna Karenina. In order to accurately convey the emotional state of the heroine, Julia each time "died" on the stage in the deepest sense of the word. The ballet Anna Karenina became one of the hardest ballerinas in her career, however it was he who gave the woman the status of a serious and dramatic performer of the Russian ballet.
Current activity
Currently, Makhalina has retired and is now working on the creative development of a new generation of young ballerinas. From now on, this woman transfers all her experience and skill to other girls so that they continue the established traditions.
During her career, the woman was not only a dancer, but also an actress, as her mother always wanted: several films were made with the participation of a ballerina.
As for the family, Julia Makhalina, whose personal life was completely absorbed in ballet, does not currently have a husband and still lives in Leningrad with her parents. A talented woman and a wonderful man in a ballet studio showed a not very light character at home. Perhaps this is precisely the reason why Julia Makhalina (her husband demanded a divorce) is still alone.
And yet, one should not forget that there are people in the world who are not intended for others, but are necessary for a specific case - this woman gave herself to ballet. And for many decades, the dancer will be remembered abroad under the special title that she deservedly acquired - “The Imperial Ballerina”.