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This proverb most aptly characterizes Natalya Baranova, Artistic Director of the children´s dance ensemble Neposedy (Fidgets). She is a little fragile woman with tremendous will-power. Neposedy has existed for as long as Natalya has lived in Estonia, that is, for nineteen years. In 1990, the family came to Tallinn, her husband´s home city, where their son went to school. The school was famous for the high level teaching of the exact sciences, but there had been never any dancing facilities. Baranova joined the staff first as a teacher of rhythmics, being a qualified teacher and choreographer to become later the leader of a dance group. The children willingly started to gain insight into the secrets of character dance. The name appeared as if by itself—that year in the first grades there were very many boys, and their forever restless, fidgeting behaviour is well known. The children´s active nature was blended with a creative streak and with Natalya Baranova´s profession, a very successful blend. |
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Friends and acquaintances, students and teachers, colleagues, fans and even critics do not spare kind words talking about him. An ideal teacher, a teacher with God´s blessing, a most talented artist… This all goes about him, Valery Laur, while he, Valery Laur, chuckles into his beard, forever rushing past, and you have to grab him literally by the arm to stop him in order to ask a few questions. He is immune to compliments as well as to starsickness even though the latter disease has struck the more talented yet the less self-critical. |
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This young woman in no way resembles a venerable choreographer. Yet her record of teaching exceeds twenty years.
Her love for dancing started, on the one hand, traditionally, but, on the other, uncommonly. Is such a thing possible? Let us start from the beginning. As is the case with gifted children, she began to dance rather early, yet not at a very young age. Nowadays parents send their kids to sports clubs to keep fit; Zhanna, by contrast, was sent to a dance studio where she met a remarkable teacher Nelly Bagat. It was then that the girl first realized how great it is to be the master of your own body and how pleasant and nice it is to perform on the stage. Presently, a seemingly prosaic life intervened: a technical secondary school of the light industry with the would-be qualification of goods manager. During lectures, Zhanna would fill her notes with dancing figures and sketches of stage costumes. Thus dancing settled not only in her body but also in her heart. At that time, she became aware of her calling and at the age of sixteen began, as she says, to „create dances”, that is, to work as a teacher and ballet-master. |
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Since her birth, the girl named Sveta and her parents roamed from one military garrison to another. And wherever she stayed, she always studied music. This was quite difficult: you hardly get used to one teacher, to the teacher´s manner of playing and particular requirements and then—whoosh—you are taught in an altogether different manner. After endless journeys through towns and countries, the family settled in Narva for quite a long time. There she finished a music school as a pianist. Her talent being obvious, the girl went to Tartu to study at the Music School named after Heino Eller. There it all started. Svetlana´s vocal talent came to the fore and was noticed, but the piano and vocal teachers could not find a common language, so Svetlana Zaugarova finished the second department as an elective course. At that time, nobody expected singing to become her love and her profession since as a pianist she was very successful. Being still a student, Svetlana began to accompany for a children´s choir, and she came to like this activity.
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Tatyana Buinova has been directing the drama studio Art-Grotesk for fifteen years. This is a whole epoch in the life of any artistic group and at the same time an adolescent age, complex yet interesting. How did it all start?
A drama club was breathing its last at one of Tallinn schools. Tatyana started to work with the children; as a result, after the painful and complicated resolving of a number of problems, a youth theatre Grotesk was born in 1995. In 2006, at the Centre of Russian Culture there emerged as its successor the drama studio Art-Grotesk. The creative credo of Tatyana Buinova can be worded thus: the theatre is the synthesis of music, sense of rhythm, vocal and drama art. In order to cope with this far from simple task, it became necessary to strengthen the studio, to develop the young actors´ professional skills and expertise. Tatyana works with children who have reached the age of seven, but the process of instruction involves all the members of the group irrespective of their age. |
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