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Relatively little has been written about how ballet teachers become
teachers themselves and how each generation passes on its
experience to the next. The teacher-dancer relationship within the
context of the Russian classical tradition is a theme of "A Life
Well Danced". It is presented through the lens of a young girl who
lived through emigration and displacement at the time of the
Russian Revolution, who experienced this again as an adult after
the Second World War and who went on to establish a successful
career as a teacher, examiner and choreographer. The book also
touches on the teaching and performing of European character dance
which is also an under-appreciated field. "A Life Well Danced" was
inspired by the author's direct connection through Zybina and her
teachers, Nicolai Legat in London, Evgenia Eduardova in Berlin and
Elena Poliakova in Belgrade, to the flowering of Russian classical
ballet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when
Marius Petipa was choreographing works such as Swan Lake and
Sleeping Beauty. An interview with Zybina provides the framework
for material in memoirs and first-hand accounts that are drawn upon
for their lively descriptions of the Imperial Theatre School and
the Mariinsky ballet company in St. Petersburg. Born in Moscow,
Zybina and her family fled to Europe at the time of the Russian
Revolution. Her first marriage to an English diplomat took her to
Belgrade and a career as a dancer and ballet mistress in
Yugoslavia. The Second World War saw her still in Yugoslavia with
her second husband when they and a number of close friends worked
in intelligence on behalf of the Allies. A strange twist of events,
brought them to England where Zybina established her ballet school
and became an examiner for the Federation of Russian Classical
Ballet and the Society of Russian Style Ballet Schools.
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