“Les Sylphides” Ekaterina Maximova, Bolshoi Theatre, 1958. Photo Soloviev
It all began with a fouetté is the name of a new exhibition in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of the birth of Ekaterina Maximova.
Way before Sylvie Guillem came to be known as ‘Madame Non’, Maximova was nicknamed ‘Madame No’ at the Bolshoi for refusing interviews, photo shoots, and various proposals. Mikhail Baryshnikov admired her “elegant build, beauty, virtuosity and even more so her spontaneity and sincerity”. As The Times said,
Ekaterina Maximova was one of the greatest ballerinas in Russia or indeed anywhere else over the past half century.
The Daily Telegraph’s obituary, 5 years ago, read,
A tiny, ravishingly pretty woman, Ekaterina Maximova formed “the Golden Couple of the 20th Century”, as the Russians called them, with her husband, Vladimir Vasiliev.… [continue reading]
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