Alexei Nikolaevich Ermolaev was a famous Soviet ballet figure. Thousands of people came to watch his performances. During his life, he earned many titles and awards, received the status of People's Artist.
Biography
The life of the eminent choreographer began in early February 1910 in the city of St. Petersburg, his parents were ordinary peasants. In 1920 he entered the ballet school, studied under the guidance of N. G. Legate. For 6 years he studied at the next ballet academy, where he entered at the end of 1921. During this time, he managed to master the full course of school education.
After completing his studies, he accepted the vacancy of a ballet troupe soloist at the Mariana Theater. The year 1930 for Ermolaev was marked by an invitation to the famous Moscow Bolshoi Theater; for the ballet dancer, he became a permanent place of work for the rest of his life.
In 1960 he became a coach, leader of young ballet performers in his native theater institution. On his account, dozens of students, who later became some of the most famous figures in this direction. He died in the mid-70s of the last century, he was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery.
Workouts
Almost no one trained the way Ermolaev trained. He remained in pitch darkness, lit a candle and focused his gaze directly on it. Then he began to perform some of the most difficult ballet movements in order to bring his vestibular apparatus to perfection.
I also added additional weights in the form of weighted bags for strength and jumping height. When it came to real performances, the ballet performer simply flew around the stage, as he was light.
Creation
Alexey Nikolaevich spent the initial stage of his career as if every dance was the last in his life. On stage, he showed unprecedented technical moments, created his own kind of movements. Unfortunately, this approach led to significant trauma, due to which he subsequently had to shift his focus from impeccable and complex execution to more creative and emotional.
Alexey was very interested in creating new styles of dance, new movements. The favorite time of day for such creativity was night, the artist preferred to be alone with himself for more inspiration.
The most beautiful and difficult performances of the artist remained only in photographs. On the video, he appeared only after partially recovering from his injury, when he played one of the main roles in the ballet film based on the tragedy of the famous author Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”.
At the end of the 30s, Ermolaev first showed himself as a director of ballet dances and choreographic numbers. In his new specialty, he was invited several times to the most famous theater in Belarus.
