![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever came later when she was in a company, she was ready for it. ![]() Now looking back I realise the basics I learned there about strengthening and presentation and interpretation and everything somehow had a really, really round package.” Those early teachers had given her something quite special and unique. She went on: “But now with the lockdown I’ve been looking into some really old videos of myself and I saw a recording of myself doing Aurora at 16 and I was really, really surprised because everything was there. ![]() “I left Kiev with a great knowledge of the classical training in ballet and along the way I acquired more knowledge and developed myself further,” she said. Alina confirmed that her training system was Vaganova and Mike asked if there were differences between how Vaganova was taught in, say, St Petersburg and Kiev?Īlina said she couldn’t give a precise answer to that but noted that the training system made wonderful use of the upper body. Mike began by recalling that he and Alina had spoken previously in both London and Bucharest and that, in fact, she had trained initially in Bucharest in her native Romania before going at nine years of age to Kiev in Ukraine on an exchange scheme with eight other students. ALINA COJOCARU "IN CONVERSATION" with Mike Dixon ![]()
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