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SONIA PETROVNA IN ADOLESCENCE, 1966 ROMANCE AND BEAUTY CAPTURED BY INSPIRED LIGHTING AND INFORMALITY
The film Adolescence by Vladimir Forgency was nominated for an academy award in 1966. A beautiful movie, nouvelle vague in style, about the transmission of classic dance to a new generation by Russian star Lubov Egorova (1880-1972, later Princess Nikita Troubetska). Egorova began her dancing career at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg and went on to become one of Russia’s star ballerina’s, dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from (1921-2). Egorova founded her own ballet school in 1923, and in 1937 her small company Les Ballets de la Jeunesse was formed which inspired the filming of Adolescence. P2J0143
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