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St. Petersburg... Rudolf Nureyev is rehearsing… And three young ballet students of Vaganova School are watching him from the doorway… At an early age, I had the opportunity to be near by the prima ballerina Aysulu Tokobayeva (one of those three students), from whom I have learned how a dancer should be. The Kirov Academy Of Ballet, Washington DC… After the Albrecht’s variation from Giselle, Alla Sizova came to me and said “Kuzey, your variation was full of emotion, it reminded me the old days.” I probably couldn’t feel more proud at that moment.. The effort I put and how I stick with the rules was worth when the former director of The Kirov Ballet Academy, Mme. Yelena Vinogradova, took me under her wings. I discovered the limitless nature of human performance with Asia’s well-known dancer Lee Won Kuk. |