She could not be called a fashionable ballerina, she did not participate in ballet parties, she was not always taken on tour. But connoisseurs-balletomans award this ballerina with the most flattering epithets - "her Sylphide is like Maria Taglioni, and Maria in "Bakhchisarai Fountain" - Ulanova with photos of the 30s; modern Carlotta Grisi - the first performer of Giselle in 1841." She is said to be the most stylistically sensitive of the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre and a truly romantic ballerina
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She could not be called a fashionable ballerina, she did not participate in ballet parties, she was not always taken on tour. But connoisseurs-balletomans award this ballerina with the most flattering epithets - "her Sylphide is like Maria Taglioni, and Maria in "Bakhchisarai Fountain" - Ulanova with photos of the 30s; modern Carlotta Grisi - the first performer of Giselle in 1841." She is said to be the most stylistically sensitive of the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre and a truly romantic ballerina in the traditions of the old Russian ballet. After graduating from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet Zhanna Ayupov in 1984, she was enrolled in the troupe of the Mariinsky Theatre and soon became its soloist. Her teacher at the Academy was a former prima ballerina of the same theater, Nelly Kurgapkina, she was especially attentive to the tender and vulnerable Jeanne, and when she began to work in the theater, she remained her “teacher, friend, and ballet mother.” Ayupova does not have bravura and assertiveness of dance, but she is characterized by musical sensitivity, refined lyricism, grace of manners and innate sensitivity to beauty. Ayupova had to work with a whole constellation of choreographers: Petip, Fokin, Vinogradov, Lavrovsky, Balanchine; and each time she managed to accurately convey the stylistic features of the director. She danced Aurora, Princess Florina, Odette, Cinderella (she danced her in three different productions), Juliet... Her Sylphide was a true maid of air - playful, careless, not knowing the depth of human feelings. It differs from the usual stamps and Gisele Ayupova. In the first act, it is a pure child. In the second - she is happy in her madness, and dies in the arms - in a moment of happiness - Alberta. The most successful duets can be called duets with