Natalia Danilova

Natalia Danilova was born in Moscow the 5th of December, 1905. When she turned five, her family moved to St. Petersburg. It was there, in 1917, that Natalia enrolled at the School of Choreography, becoming a pupil of Agrippina Vaganova, the "queen of variations" and an outstanding teacher of the Russian ballet school. While Natasha was studying, the elitist art of ballet had been falling out of fa...