Майя Плисейкая и Вахтанг Чабукиани - Лауренсия, Большой театр, 1956

"Лауренсия" - балет композитора Крейна, поставленный в Большом театре СССР. В роли Лауренсии - Майя Плисецкая, в роли Фрондоса - постановщик балета Вахтанг Чабукиани. Maya Plisetskaya and Vakhtang Chabukiani Laurencia, Bolshoi 1956. Laurencia :Two Act ballet with four Scenes on the play by Lope de Vega - Fuente Ovejuna and music of Alexander Krein, choreographed by Vakhtang Chabukiani. Laurencia was premiered on March 22 of 1939, at the Kirov/Mariinsky Theatre with Natalia Dudinskaya (Laurencia) and Vakhtang Chabukiani (Frondoso). A ballet which attempted to combine the principles horeodramy and virtuosic classical dance. Two of outstanding ballet dancer with unmatched temperament, Maya Plisetskaya(in her absolute prime) -Laurencia and Vakhtang Chabukiani -Frondoso. Many was written and is writing till now about Primadonna Assoluta Plisetskaya and everyone adores her even they are not a balletomans. Vakhtang was a dancer and choreographer, whose performances, especially with partnership of wonderful Natalia Dudinskaya in 1930s in Kirov/Mariinsky Theatre and in Tbilisi from 1941-1960s with beautiful Vera Tsignadze was the real firework of dance. When one the greatest Russian tenor Leonid Sobinov first saw him, he exclaimed : "This is a miracle of nature". In her book "Soviet Ballet" Iris Morley wrote : "Trying to describe this unusual and magnificent dancer, experienced the same difficulty, as when trying to describe a tornado. He takes possession of the whole scene...