Students are distilled to slogans like "the Greenwich ballerina who mentored students in the South Bronx".
She was an assistant residence-hall director for student ballerinas at the School of American Ballet.
"You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina," she told students adamantly in a technique class.
Russian-born ballet dancer and teacher who, devoted her life to the Bolshoi Ballet as a student, prima ballerina, teacher, choreographer, and artistic ambassador until she defected to the West (1980); she then settled in London, where she remained a guest teacher with the Royal Ballet School.
The Mariinsky dancers take flight in it, and pushing herself to witty, ecstatic limits is Renata Shakirova, still a student, already claiming ballerina status.
THE story of how George Balanchine made cultural history in Westchester involves a pair of artistic visionaries, a rainy night in June and a dance work so uplifting that generations of student and professional ballerinas have been thrilled to perform it.
Student Ballet Performance TOMORROW -- Natalia Makarova, the ballerina, will be among those honored, and students of the School of American Ballet will give a short performance at a black-tie dinner at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center that will support scholarships to the school and other programs.
Some are former company ballerinas and some are students in their teens.
The performers are students of Valentina Kozlova — a former Bolshoi ballerina with a highly-regarded New York studio — and the chamber company New York Theatre Ballet, for whom Caines is in the process of creating a new ballet.
The student in question is Nicole Zadra, a New York-based ballerina who was recently offered a traineeship at Russia's famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
