Dear Friends.
Sorry there has not been a news letter for
sometime, not a lot has been happening, but now Patricia Deane-Gray is
sponsoring and extending the Legat exhibition to include the dancers and
teachers trained by Nicolai Legat and Nadine Nicolaeva Legat.
If
you are part of this teaching tree could you please send a photograph and a
short resume of your working life to be included in the exhibition?
The
exhibition has been to 17 venues in various countries the most recent Wales and
is soon to go to Europe.
Andrew
Stevens former Legat school pupil now dancing and teaching in Slovenia, will
host the exhibition in Ljubljana.
We
need more venues, would you like to host it, or do you have contacts who would?
Please
contact us.
Barbara
Gregory has finished her manual on Nicolai Legat’s teaching, it will be an
invaluable aid to teaching The Legat Foundation Syllabus which has now been up
dated and will include a CD of music, composed by Nic Treharne B.A.B.MUS , especially interesting are her
unusual rhythms.
Also
included is the music and choreographic notes for Tamara Karsavina’s beautiful
Columbine and Harlequin solos, which she arranged after Petipa, for Harlequin
Ballet in 1960.
To
keep this little piece of history alive we are making it the “set dance” for
the advanced exam.
Barbara Vernon & John Gregory in
Harlequin’s Serenade by
Tamara Karsavina
The
Legat Foundation and the Ana Roje scholarship fund, helped Alys Owen, a pupil
of Moya Vahey, to travel to Perm in Russia to finish her training.
She
is now dancing with Ballet Russe based in Swansea S.Wales, they are a small
company of Russian trained dancers who tour Britain, do look out for their new
production of Cinderella, Alys is a very successful ugly sister.
The
Legat Foundation Trustees are, Barbara Gregory, Moya Vahey (chair), Patricia
Deane-Gray MBE. International coordinator,
Fiona Melvin, Tamara Dragadze, Harriet Hammel, Myra Loshak Sands and Colin and
Val Newsome. Treasurer Peter Beynon and Secretary Ella Shepherd.
We
are working hard as a team to keep the AIMS of the Legat Foundation which are:-
(1)
To
advance the education of the public in the life and teachings of Nicolai Legat
(1869-1937) and the Johansson– Legat system of classical ballet.
(2)
To
advance the education of the public in all aspects of Russian ballet, in
particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, by
(a)
establishing
and maintaining a museum in the United Kingdom; and
(b)
Fostering
research into the history, traditions and development of Russian ballet in
Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, Europe and the West, and disseminating the
useful results of such research.
24th
January 2007 is the 70th Anniversary of Nicolai Legat's Death, his remains
along with Nicolaeva Legat are in the cemetery in Tunbridge Wells, grave No c8
We
have recently discovered an old film of Nicolai Legat with about a dozen
dancers out side 46 Colet Gardens. It is now on a DVD and on our web site.
Wonderful
to see him moving and miming, as of course there is no sound.
Please
look at it and if you can recognise any of the people on it could you let us
know.
Please
do visit our web site at
www.legat-russian-ballet.co.uk