BIOGRAPHY
Alla was born in Moscow. Her family had nothing to do with dance culture and music. As everybody, she has gone to school and as many in musical school. Parents understood that the girl is artistic and full of creative ideas. She always likes to dance, but in the childhood she did not know yet, that it becomes her vocation. Soon she went to ballroom dancing studio. She was keen on dance lessons at once. But it was only the beginning of a way, and her way she searched by herself since parents were not against it, but especially did not promote her hobby. Then there were different studios and dance schools.
After finishing general educational and musical school, Alla has joined to the Russian State Academy of Physical culture and Sport on specialization “sport ballroom dancing”. Then, in the middle of 90th, it was the first admission on such specialty. At the same time she was engaged at ballroom dancing school of Boris Tretjakov and began to teach ballroom dancing to children.
Also in Tretjakov studio she met her first teacher of jazz dance - Olga Ershova. So the world of other dance has opened to her and has helped to understand sense of movement of a body. Ballroom dancing with its strict limits, dependence on the certain elements became boring and monotonous for her, while a jazz dance was full of free energy and improvisation. It was that thing lacked her for development as a dancer at that time. It was that freedom of movement, freedom of plastic which allowed her to do everything with her body that would be desirable, and she aspired exactly to it. And now, being the belly dancer, she comes back to a jazz dance and uses it in her work.
In institute Alla filled up the “professional luggage” by studying different kind of dance – historical, classical, jazz, tap-dance, has started to stage dancing compositions. At the same time began to visit dancing school at GITIS where she learned flamenco dance.
Lessons of classical dance seem to her important for development as a dancer, and she began to take them in studio of the well-known ballerina of Bolshoy Theatre Natalia Mikroshevskaya. In the same place for the first time she has seen the dancer fulfilling vigorous and at the same time full of grace movements of belly dance. Certainly Alla used oriental plastic in her work before, but in these movements there was something cardinally new and grasping.
The first representation about belly dance Alla has received at school of Egyptian Sameh El Dessouki, working in Moscow. In real she has understood what is belly dance after a trip to Turkey. Performances there and work as choreographer of show, and also studying new things, meetings with people of this genre became an important point in Alla''s life. She has plunged into oriental culture, began to study nuances, differences between Turkish and Egyptian styles of belly dance. The life consisted of trips to this country, and returning for a short time home has begun. In Moscow she also continued to improve the dance and visited school “Jasmine” under direction of Mohsira, and then Natalia Pavlova''s school - "Djuneina", Natalia Strelchenko''s studio, took lessons from Aida Hassan.
In breaks between trips to Turkey in Moscow she continued to work as a choreographer in entertaining clubs, as the dance teacher and perform by herself in various dancing styles including belly dance. This genre attracted her more and more.
Living and working in Turkey long time, Alla plunged more deeply into Turkish culture, music and studied Turkish language.
As the person creative and aspiring to create something new she often made suits by herself for her performances or for her pupils. Also suits for belly dance made by her hands.
As a big layer in Alla''s life has appeared the work in dancing club Galladance in Moscow. In this time she managed to grow up a considerable quantity of pupils, to meet with new interesting people and to share her knowledge and creativity with people surrounding her.
Now Alla gives individual lessons and perform. She has something to tell about. She has a lot of plans and ideas. And she is ready to share with best of them on this site.
The author: M.S.
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