The glory of the ministers of Terpsichore (the goddess of dance), unlike the great musicians, painters or poets, has been living through the creative age for quite a while, unfortunately. Inhabitants can judge the best famous dancers, mainly from the few images, memoirs of their contemporaries, and later from photographs. And only in recent years there was an amazing opportunity to capture the dance on film. Anna Plisetskaya is a young representative of the Plisetskys-Messerers dynasty. Little fame came to her in childhood, when she played Jane Banks in the film about the extraordinary nanny Mary Poppins.
Childhood
Little Anna Plisetskaya was born in the capital of the Soviet Union - in Moscow - on August 18, 1971. Mom Anechka, Marianna Sedova, was a ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater, dad, Alexander Plisetskiy (brother of Maya Plisetskaya), - choreographer. There is a family legend that the name of the girl was invented by Maya Plisetskaya herself, her great aunt. Just at that time, her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, was completing work on Anna Karenina. Here the ballerina came to her brother's family with the proposal of this name. Parents did not mind.
The family moved to Latin America, so Ani's childhood passed there, in Lima. Her father founded a ballet there.
The debut in the cinema of little Anechka took place when she was three years old. She played a tiny episodic role in the film "Anna Karenina" (directed by Margarita Pilikhina).
City on the Neva
Once again she appeared on the screens in the movie Mary Poppins, Goodbye. She was chosen to be the daughter of the Banks couple - Jane Banks. It was 1984.
Today Anna Plisetskaya talks about moving to the northern city of Leningrad with ease and appreciation. She understands that this was her lucky ticket to the future. But at the age of nine, this was a tragedy for her. Then she cried with burning tears, sincerely not understanding why, at the mention of her name, the leadership of the choreographic school begins to worry too much.
Lady Mary ...
In Vaganovsky, a girl who showed great promise was met quite cordially. And a couple of years later, when she turned into an excellent student and became a promising ballerina, they quite calmly let her go to the capital for vacations, to shoot a picture about the unusual nanny Mary.
Thirty years have passed since the movie was released. But still this time, Anna Plisetskaya recalls with a special feeling. On the set, she happened to see how famous Soviet actors play, fed off of them by the magical power of art.
She was invited to audition by the second director of this film. Then Anna found out that before that they watched a huge number of children. By the way, many of them took part in the final scene of the picture. Before the nanny flies away forever, adult characters in this story get the opportunity to meet with their childhood.
First achievements
Anna Plisetskaya, biography which interests many ballet lovers, once recalled that she liked herself in this film. As she said in an interview, there she was a good, right girl. True, she was not able to fully enjoy the glory that fell upon her after the picture was released: she had no childhood as such, the school had a rather busy schedule; the students got up at eight in the morning and went to bed at eleven in the evening. And her success was already constant, but on stage. By this time, Anna Plisetskaya already danced solo in the Mariinsky. The schedule was quite tight, so there were not many memories left about the shootings in the film.
It was possible that her luck was variable. And here, not only the surname is “to blame”. The peak of her career on stage fell on the difficult 90s. The situation was such that she came to leave the Mariinsky, although she really did not want to. The performances were now staged very little, and she was a young ballerina and really wanted to work. But here in a month she received an amount equal to the ballerina’s fee for one working day in the West. Almost all of her fellow students went abroad. But Anna wanted to dance in her homeland. And she began to earn extra money, independently organizing performances. This really did not like the hudruk. He told her that Plisetskaya had no right to speak anywhere. I had to part with my native walls ...
Yes, “a pensioner at 36” sounds rather strange. But she tried herself in various forms. Plisetskaya plays in performances, works on a vocal program (she really likes to sing) and gives concerts. She has a dream - to act in films.
She has a fairly strong ballet repertoire. She danced in Russkaya, Giselle, Polovtsian Dances, Swan Lake, La Sylphide and many others. But he’s not afraid to turn his eyes to other forms of art. For three years, from 2000 to 2003, in a team with the collective of the Rossia State Central Concert Hall Plisetskaya, whose ballets were always a small miracle, she worked on creating a program that could embody the idea of developing gifted and professional children in various fields: in the field of opera , ballet, music and circus art.
In recent years, she has been organizing concerts and working on staging performances.
Relationship with aunt
As a rule, in an interview, journalists often ask Anna the question of what kind of relationship connects her with the great ballerina of the twentieth century, who is also her father’s sister, Maya Plisetskaya. But Anna never loved such interference in her family. She answered very simply: the relationship is close exactly as much as possible for two people living in different countries. In addition, she never worked at the Bolshoi Theater as an aunt, so there was never any competition or jealousy.
But there is one question that Anna Plisetskaya never answers. The personal life of the ballerina remains without a single comment from her. On the one hand, she does not consider herself to be a sufficiently stellar person who could be discussed non-stop, on the other, she is sure that this side of her life is only hers and she does not intend to initiate outsiders into this world.