Ninel Kurgapkina as Aurora in the ballet Sleeping Beauty, 1955.Kurgapkina’s appetite for life
Ninel Kurgapkina as Aurora in the ballet Sleeping Beauty, 1955.Kurgapkina’s appetite for life made her an irresistible Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty and an electrifying performer of both the French revolutionary Jeanne in Flames of Paris and the quick-tempered Spanish girl Kitri in Don Quixote, in which her leaps and fouettés were considered unsurpassed. -- source link
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