Mourners pay respects to late Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov throughout a memorial service on the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on November 21, 2024.
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Vladimir Shklyarov soared. He was the Prince in ‘Swan Lake,” Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet,” and the Duke in “Giselle,” as principal dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He was lyrically lean and expressive in each muscle, and leapt into the reminiscences of audiences when he carried out on nice phases everywhere in the world.
Shklyarov was 39 years previous when he died final Saturday. He was married to a fellow dancer in his firm, Maria Shirinkina, and had two kids. They carried out collectively when their firm toured america in 2016, and Roslyn Sulcas of the New York Instances wrote that once they danced in an extract of “Giselle,” “they urged one other world.”
A Russian state-run information company says Shklyarov fell to his demise from a balcony on the fifth flooring of a constructing in St. Petersburg. They report that he was taking painkillers for a again harm.
“(A) silly, insufferable accident,” a pal and fellow dancer, Irina Baranovskaya, referred to as his demise on Telegram, saying he “went out to the balcony to get some air and smoke” and “misplaced his steadiness.”
One other Mariinsky dancer, Diana Vishneva, wrote, “You have been the favorite accomplice … My stunning Romeo, my courageous Prince in Cinderella.”
There may be reportedly an official investigation into Shklyarov’s demise. However it’s also onerous to not see his demise alongside the handfuls of events in recent times when individuals who have questioned the Putin regime have reportedly fallen out of home windows. Pavel Antov, the politician; Ravil Maganov, the oil magnate; Valentina Bondarenko, the economist; Grigory Kochenov, the IT chief; and extra — fairly a couple of extra.
Journalists have coined a phrase: Sudden Russian Loss of life Syndrome.
Russia is a nation so completed it launches missions towards the celebs, however appears to have a number of home windows that give manner. They are saying that Shklyarov, who was famously agile when he carried out Prokofiev’s ballets, could not hold his steadiness whereas smoking on a balcony.
Shklyarov obtained the Honored Artist of Russia title in 2020. However he wrote a Fb submit in 2022 through which he declared, “Associates! I’m in opposition to the conflict in Ukraine! I’m for the individuals, for a peaceable sky above our heads … I need to dance … I need to love everybody — that’s the function of my life … I don’t want wars or borders.”
In life, as on the stage, Shklyarov soared.
