Kasatkina, Natalia Dmitrievna

Natalia Dmitrievna Kasatkina was born on June 7, 1934 in Moscow to the family of the engineer D. A. Kasatkin, a representative of the famous Moscow merchant family, and the children's writer Anna Kardashova . In 1953 she graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School (teacher Shulamith Messerer ). In 1954-1976 - soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet . Performed characteristic dances in the ballets Swan Lake , Raymonda , Cinderella , Don Quixote , Sacred Spring , Carmen Suite .

Since the 1960s, he has been working as a choreographer, staging performances with her husband, Vladimir Vasilyev . At the time of the thaw in 1965 , the first of the directors in the USSR turned to the music of Igor Stravinsky , putting his " Holy Spring " in the Bolshoi Theater.

In 1977 she was appointed chief choreographer of the concert ensemble “Classical Ballet”. Since then, Kasatkina and Vasilyev have been the permanent artistic directors of this troupe, which since 1992 has been called the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture "The State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet under the direction of Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov . "

Held on television a series of programs dedicated to ballet.

• Possessed , " Sacred Spring " by I. F. Stravinsky in his own production
• Rock , “ Carmen Suite ”, directed by A. Alonso to the music of G. Bizet - R. Shchedrin
• Indian doll , The Nutcracker by P. I. Tchaikovsky , directed by Yu. N. Grigorovich

(*) - the first performer of the party.

Bolshoi Theater

• “ Vanina Vanini ” by Nikolay Karetnikov (1962)
• “Heroic Poem” (“Geologists”) by Nikolai Karetnikov (1964)
• " The Holy Spring " by Igor Stravinsky (1965)

Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater named after S. M. Kirov

• The Creation of the World by Andrei Petrov (1971),
• “Pushkin. Reflections on the poet " Andrei Petrov (1979)
• Andrei Petrov 's opera "Peter I" (1975)

Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater

• Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev (1972)

Moscow Musical Theater named after KS Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko

• "Insight" by Yuri Butsko (1974)

Classical Ballet Theater N. Kasatkina and V. Vasilyov

• " Gayane " by Aram Khachaturian (1977)
• The Magic Camisole by Nikolai Karetnikov (1983)
• “Tricks of Terpsichore” to the music of Joseph Strauss (1984)
• " The Fairies Kiss " by Igor Stravinsky (1989)
• Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev (1993)
• “ Lady with Camellias ” to music by Giuseppe Verdi and P. K. Salnikova (1995)
• Bela Bartok 's Miraculous Mandarin (1996)
• Firebird by Igor Stravinsky (2000)

• 1968 - Honored Artist of the RSFSR
• 1984 - People's Artist of the RSFSR
• 1969 - I Prize of the All-Union Competition of Concert Numbers
• 1976 - USSR State Prize
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• 1994 - Order of Friendship of Peoples ( April 11, 1994 ) - for his great personal contribution to the development of choreographic art ^[1]
• 2005 - Order of Honor ( January 17, 2005 ) - for many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art ^[2]
• 1996 - winner of the Ballet magazine's award “ Soul of Dance ” (in the nomination “Knights of the Ballet”)
• 2003 - winner of the honorary award of the Russian Authors' Society

• Russian ballet: Encyclopedia / Ed. count E. P. Belova, G. N. Dobrovolskaya , V. M. Krasovskaya , E. Ya. Surits , N. Yu. Chernov. - M., BDT , Concord, 1997. - p. 215 - ISBN 5-85270-099-1

• Natalia Kasatkina (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database (I)
• Natalia Kasatkina (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database (II)
• Natalia Kasatkina on the site KinoPoisk (I)
• Natalia Kasatkina on the site KinoPoisk (II)
• Documentary film “Two” about Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov