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 The Sheremetev Palace — Branch of St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. 34, Naberezhnaya Fontanki. Ticket office: 272 44 41
Alla Osipenko is one of famous classical ballerinas who is spectacularly graceful and much admired for the poetry and dramatic projection of her dancing. In 1950-1970 the excellent artistic style of Osipenko was demanded by contemporary choreographers such as Grigorovich, Igor Belinsky, Igor I Chernishov, Georgy Aleksidze, Boris Eyfman. For many years an eminent choreographer Leonid Jacobson created ballets especially for Alla Osipenko. She is choreographically gifted and she has created her own artistic world and imparted a depth of expression to her interpretation of classical roles. Alla Osipenko has become the face of soviet ballet achievements of the twentieth century. Being behind the Iron Curtain in Russia unlike her celebrity friends in the West she has managed contributed to significant ballet reforms.
Alla Osipenko in her creative work strove for a balance between innovation and familiar classical dance forms. Agrippina Vaganova took over her training. Alla Osipenko started her career on the stage of The Kirov State Theatre of Opera and Ballet where she has given us unforgettable characters of The Lilac Fairy, Odette-Odile, Raimonda in the ballets by P. Tchaikovsky and A. Glazunov.
The exhibition tells us about the main stages of life and creative work of ballerina Osipenko as well as of the family history descended from the great Russian artist Borovikovsky.
Visitors to the exhibition will see photos from the family and theatre albums, letters and diaries, archives documents, costumes and costume designs, painted sculpture and photo portraits where artists depicted the outstanding balerina?s personality.
The exhibition is supplemented with the video records of Osipenko's dance and balerina's interviews.
The materials for the exhibition were given by The Mariinsky Theatre, The Jacobson Academic Theatre of Ballet, The Vaganova Ballet Academy, The Central Literature and Art Archive and personally by Alla Osipenko and her friends.
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