Word: fedicheva
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...feather-light leaps and soaring turns keep the heroine airborne for the better part of the performance. Raymonda is among the most difficult roles in Russian ballet, and it was rendered with elegance, grace and precision in two successive New York performances by Irina Kolpakova and Kaleria Fedicheva. Jean de Brienne, portrayed in both performances by Vladilen Semenov, Kolpakova's real-life husband, spends most of the time as Raymonda's elevator...
...nimble jester, the ethereal cygnets of Act II, the despairing swans of the finale. In the difficult dual role of Odette-Odile, Ballerina Inna Zubkovskaya was an airy Swan Queen and a menacing Black Swan; when the cast changed for the second night's performance, Ballerina Kaleria Fedicheva proved the better actress, and possibly the better dancer. She dared the famous 32 jouettes en tournant (whipping spins) that Zubkovskaya omitted for a less spectacular series of swift traveling turns...
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