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This week in time was Ekaterina Maximova Birthday Anniversary, and today we also celebrate World Tutu Day, with a performance from “the Golden Couple of the 20th Century.”
Miss Maximova’s magnetic energy and stage presence has her stand out with her bravura performance in Don Quixote.

Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova.

Born: February 01st 1939. Moscow, USSR. – Died: 28th April 2009. Moscow, Russia. Age 70.

Ballet: Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev in Don Quixote 1973 (Act 3) at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Miss Maximova talks about her Artistry and performing.

“Sometimes, when there are many performances, when you are really tired and your whole body hurts, you stand behind the curtains thinking 'Oh God, how am I going to dance? I can't do anything!'. And then the music starts, and you fly up the stage, and forget about your pain, forget about your troubles. You forget about everything."

Original Choreography: Marius Petipa.

Music: Ludwig Minkus.

Don Quixote, Four Acts, Eight Scenes, was first performed by the Imperial Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, on the 26th December 1869. Cast: Anna Sobeshchanskaya. Wilhelm Vanner. Vassily Geltser. Sergei Sokolov. Pelagaya “Polina” Karpakova. Dmitri Kuznetsov.

(Revised for Imperial Russian Ballet (now Mariinsky Ballet), Five Acts, Eleven Scenes. 21st November 1871. At the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of St. Petersburg). Cast: Timofei Stukolkin. Alexandra Vergina. Lev Ivanov. Nikolai Goltz.

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