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these are *******. Attentions to me had not gone unnoticed by the theater administration, which saw fit to display me in larger and larger roles. In 18 90 I was a Cory Fe dancing the part of the fairy candied in Sleeping Beauty. But with the flowering of my talent, I was quickly promoted to second soloist and then two Prima ballerina By 18 93 1 year after the Czar ******* first visit to me, I would no longer dance the role of a fairy in Sleeping Beauty but make my debut as Aurora herself the first Russian ballerina ever to dance the role. Yes, the director of theaters, Evel Loski and the ballet master Pepe were eager to please the court for the pleasure of the Roman offs was all that mattered. Let us be frank. I did not jump. Well, I was not ethereal. My feet were flat. My legs were too short to disguise. This last defect I had special to choose, made with short wastes and long skirts. But my audience did not notice my deficits. They saw on Lee that I was bowled. That I was fast, that I was brilliant. I was what was called a territory. A dancer. I attacked the floor with my sharp, hard points. D Amon teen, I was described. I gave off light. In addition to my formidable technique, I had the ineffable something that makes a dancer a star. When I stepped onto the stage, one could look nowhere but at me until I left it. Scenery, stage business, the diverted small of soloists or corps de ballet. None of it could distract from the impact of my presence, and I could act. No one who has seen me is the tragic Bewitched Swan Queen Odette or the jilted Gypsy girl. Esmeralda could ever forget it. It was Russia under the Romanovs that perfected the art, and I was its first Russian ballerina, not one of those Italian girls brought in to do the honors in the ballerina roles, while the spent Lana's in the A. Katarina Zin, the oldest posed behind them. I was the first to learn the tricks of Xueqian, Grimaldi and Bronze and Mignoni, the wet day, the Do Blue tour, the Entre Shaw, said Royal. After my debut in January 18 93 as Aurora and Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky himself came to my dressing room to tell me he wanted to create a ballet for me. It was like God calling on one. And yes, I was mad to dance.