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  Soviet ballerina Tatyana Legat died in Moscow at the age of 88 Moscow.  January 27th.  INTERFAX.RU  - The famous Soviet ballerina, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Tatyana Legat died at the age of 88 in a Moscow hospital on Thursday, her daughter Alena Solovyeva told Interfax. According to her, death came suddenly.  Legat spent several days in the hospital, before that she led an active lifestyle.  In recent years, Legat worked as a teacher-repetiteur at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, but with the onset of the pandemic, her relatives moved her to Moscow. Legat was born in 1934 in Leningrad and is a representative of a ballet dynasty.  Her great-grandfather was a student of Marius Petipa - Gustav Legat, whose sons also became dancers and choreographers. Legat entered the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1943, during the blockade.  She completed her studies in 1953, immediately after graduation she was admitted to the Mariinsky Theater (then the Kirov Theatre), on the stage of

  JOHN RAVEN Born 22-4-1935    Died 14-11-2021. John did his National Service in the RAF, during that time, for a dare, John & some mates went to a dance class, he enjoyed it so much he decided to be a dancer. He joined The Legat School of Russian Ballet & was trained by Nadine Nicolaeva Legat & Lydia Kyasht,  but John’s most important teacher was Valentine Prowitsch, who taught him Double Work & Character. I remember two amazing pieces choreographed by Mr. Prowitsch, Black number was a very clever pas de trois, one girl, John & Mr Prowitsch all in black & unseen, making all the lifts even more amazing.   The other ballet was Prince Igor with John & Anna Truscott dancing the most beautiful pas de deux. John’s career gave him parts in many TV shows including DR WHO, The Welsh National Opera etc. For more than 20 years John was the Double Work Teacher in all the big Dance schools, each day of the week he was at a different school lifting every girl