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Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm
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This is a live 1972 performance from Tokyo , Japan with the Kirov Mariinsky Ballet performing Don Quixote . 24 year old Mikhail Baryshnikov starred as Basil, two years before his defection . Gabriela Komleva is Kitri .The other two leading ballerinas are very interesting. Despite their success as Kirov ballerinas, both have actually received more acclaim as teachers and coaches. 44 year old Olga Moiseyeva plays the Street Dancer . She would retire the next year , 1973. After her retirement , she soon worked with an existing young star in the company , Galina Mezentseva , who became her first great protege in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1980s, she worked with Altynai Asylmuratova and continued with Yulia Makhalina and then in the 1990s with Svetlana Zakharova . Therefore, Moiseyeva has coached four very important Kirov ballerinas since her retirement.The other ballerina is Ludmila Kovaleva , who plays the Queen of the Dryads . After her retirement, she decided to become a teacher at the Vaganova Ballet Academy . After Natalia Dudinskaya stopped teaching about 10 years ago and Inna Zubkhovskaya died a few years ago, Kovaleva became the top teacher at the school and is recognized as the top teacher at the Vaganova Academy today.