Ilze Liepa biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. But many of her colleagues could envy the inner rod of the ballerinas. Since childhood, she faced a biased attitude because of the name of the legendary father, ballet dancer Marisa Liepa. But Ilze was used to not paying attention to comments and just go to his goal. Liepa was amazing at her ability to work: she managed to dance the main parties in performances, go on stage in dramatic productions, act in films, perform on the radio, write books and lead a studio school.

And at the age of 46, Liepa experienced the happiness of motherhood, giving birth to a daughter. True, the artist never developed family life - two unsuccessful marriages remained behind her.

Ballerina Ilze Liepa in the year Ilze broke off relations with his father’s homeland-the ballerina banned trips to Latvia due to her support for Russia's actions in Ukraine. But Liepa still had no time to travel: after all, despite her age, she continued to regularly shine on stage. Childhood and family future ballerina Ilze Liepa was born on November 22 in Moscow in a creative family.

Her father, Maris Liepa, was an artist of ballet and served in the Bolshoi Theater. And mother, Margarita Zhigunova, worked as an actress at the Pushkin Drama Drama. The stars met on the set of Ilze. By that time, Marisa had a failed fleeting marriage with Maya Plisetskaya. Maris and Margarita agreed to name the born children in honor of the heroes of the picture, which brought them together.

The son received the name Andris, and the daughter, who appeared a year later, became Ilze. Ilze Liepa and her brother in childhood, the children grew up, admiring the famous father. Ilze disappeared behind the scenes, watching the performances of the artist. From childhood, Maris had no doubt that both his son and daughter would follow in his footsteps. Ilze entered the theater stage already in the year.

The five -year -old girl got the role of the son of the main character in the production of Madame Butterfly. The actress was much easier to raise a fragile Ilze in her arms than her peer-boy. Liepa admitted that she always remembered how curls curled up in a dressing room and prepared a suit. Ilse Liepa with her father inspired by this episode, Ilze firmly decided to connect life with the ballet.

In the year, she entered the academic choreographic school. The day before, her father had a serious conversation with her, warning that her childhood was actually over: now only daily hard work was expected. The girl did not scare the parting words. In the year, she graduated from the school. But the start of her career was difficult to call successful.

The career in the ballet Summer Ilze dreamed, like her father, to perform at the Bolshoi Theater. Moreover, her older brother Andris has been served there for a year. She was taken, putting it in a group with artists who worked in the mass. By that time, Maris Liepa was drawn into a conflict with the leadership of the theater: he was actually survived from the big, fearing to openly dismiss.

The artist was set by the condition: either he frees a place for his daughter, or Ilsa will forever remain in the ranks of the corps de ballet. The girl was not successful also due to great growth-the centimeter Ilze was significantly higher than the rest of the ballerinas. Ilze Liepa in his youth then also had difficult times: Maris and Margarita broke up, and Liepa went to another woman.

Zhigunova was so angry at her husband that she forbade children to maintain communication with him. Ilze, contrary to her mother’s arguments, secretly met with her father, who continued to be an ideal for her. After dismissal from the theater, Maris plunged into depression, and in the year he was gone because of a heart attack. He did not have time to see the triumph of his daughter.

And Ilze in the X became a constant artist of the troupe. The first important party was entrusted to her in the production of the year: at the premiere of the opera “Iphigenia in Avlid”, she reincarnated in a dance scene into Ger. After the brilliant performance of the Mercedes party, the prima in the play “Don Quixote” in the year on the tour of the theater in Chisinau, the leadership of the big examined the makings of a solo artist in Ilze.

She began to trust large roles in the premieres. So, since years, she was involved in all the main productions - “Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty”, “Swan Lake” and “Romeo and Juliet”, “Khovanshchina” and “Prince Igor”. Moreover, Ilze got characteristic bright heroines - for example, Signora Capuletti in Romeo and Juliet of the year. My hero - Ilze Liepa in the year, took place the first creative evening of the dancer.

She performed several numbers and introduced a small performance “Vision of a Rose” with her brother Andris. In the year, Liepe was entrusted with the main party in Carmen-Syuit. Thus, Ilze became the first Russian artist after the legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who embodied the image of a passionate Carmen on the stage. Ilze noted that she fell in love with this performance as a child.

Before starting work, she consulted at Plisetskaya herself and received her blessing. Ilze Liepa. The choreographic miniature to the music of Mikhail Glinka was important for the ballerina for a year. By that time, her brother, along with Isabelle, the granddaughter of the choreographer Mikhail Fokin, was restored by his Ballet Scheherazada. And Ilze received a goiter party in the production.In the years, she went on the stage of the Great Tetra in the new productions of “Fantasy on the theme of Casanova”, “Snow White” and “Romeo and Juliet”.

In the year, Ilze received the title of Honored Artist of the country. The ballerina actively toured, danced not only in performances, but also in solo rooms - she was lucky to work with such choreographers as George Alexidze, Michael Shannon and many others. Ilse Liepa on the stage the beginning of the new millennium Liepa met in the status of an absolute star. In the year, she received the role of Countess in the play “Peak Lady”.

Her stage partner was Nikolai Tsiscaridze. The performance was such a success that Ilze danced in it for 10 years. It was the “peak lady” who became the first setting of Liepa after the decree. She returned to the stage 2.5 months after birth. In the year, the creative evenings of the ballerina from the sites of the capital's concert halls were transferred to the Bolshoi Theater.

Not only Ilze took part in them, but also her colleagues - artists of Russian and world ballet. A fragment from the Ballet “Peak Lady” despite the fact that Liepa was considered an age dancer, she received new proposals for work. So, in the year she was invited to the UK to fulfill the party of Princess Diana in the production of the People's Princess. The great creative benefit Ilze took place in the year.

Especially for the evening of the sister, Andris produced the play "Cleopatra". The ballerina performed two roles in the production at once - the actually Cleopatra and Ida Rubinstein. The premiere tore off the applause: both the audience and critics noted that Liepa is talented not only in classical ballet, but also in modern choreography. She did not stop dancing, but now she did this only in rare performances or special solo rooms.

Cinema and theater at the dawn of work at the Bolshoi Theater was actually without constant roles, and mother-actress pushed her to accept a proposal for filming in the cinema. She appeared with her majestic posture in the episodes of the films “Hero of Her Roman”, “The Blinding World”, “Childhood of Bambi” and “Youth Bembi” in the year she received a more noticeable role: she played the wife of the main character in the series “Mikhailo Lomonosov”.

By that time, Liepa realized that she would like to engage in dramatic art and in the theater and entered GITIS, choosing a pedagogical department. Ilze Liepa in the film “Blinding World” in the year Liepa starred in the film “These ... Three True Cards ...”, and two years later-in the musical “Ali Baba and forty robbers” along with Mikhail Lavrovsky and Viktor Yaremenko.

For the performance of the heroine, the artist was awarded the Crystal Turandot Award. Ilze Liepa as Maria Stuart “It was an amazingly interesting beginning,” said Ilze, adding that she was lucky enough to play with outstanding colleagues, among whom were Igor Sklyar, Nikolai Eremenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and others. The second important dramatic production for the ballerina was the play “The Empress's Dream” Andrei Maksimov in the year.

It is curious that the playwright was one of the authors of the necrologists on the late father of Ilze. For a role in this production, Liepe was awarded the Seagull Award. In the same year, Ilse Liepa in the play “The Dream of Empress” starred as a ballerina in the action -packed television series “Empire under the blow”. By this time, no one doubted her dramatic talent: she managed to perform solo ballet parties, spend creative evenings, participate in performances and act in films.

In the year, Liepa received the title of People's Artist of the country, and a year later - the most important theater prize "Golden Mask". Ilze Liepa in the series “Empire under the blow” with playwright Andrei Maksimov Ilze collaborated several more times: in the year she got a role in his staging “Frame of decency”, and a year later - in the play “Birthday of the Blue Beard”.

In addition, in the year, Liepa entered the stage of the "Old Theater" theater partnership in the production "Tea Ceremony". A year later, she took part in the play "An-Der-Sen" Ksenia Dragunskaya. In the early X, social activities were seriously carried away by Pilates: she was one of the first in Russia to study this type of physical exercises. Later, she met with coach Maria Subbotovskaya and invited her to join forces.

Liepa always dreamed of establishing her own ballet school for children, as she believed that this art is useful for every child. Ilze Liepa in her ballet school in the year Ilze and Maria founded a studio, which became called the Russian National Ballet School. The children were taught there the basics of ballet art, and Pilates coaches were engaged in adults.

Over 20 years of work in Moscow, four schools opened and one in St. Petersburg. Talented children were engaged in freely. In addition, the Russian classical education at the Ilze Liepa ballet school, in the year, Ilze came up with the initiative to conduct the annual festival-competition of choreographic schools and dance groups under the name “Magic Ship”. Its creation became possible thanks to the work of the Marisa Liepa Foundation, which was previously established by Ilze and Andris.