With gratitude to my teachers from Leningrad

Abstract

This paper focused on the teaching, artistic and coaching experience of Danuta Piasecka, who was a student of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and the Vaganova Leningrad Academic Choreographic School at 1963-1968. Outstanding educationalists with whom she was collaborating were F. Balabina, I. Zubkovska, N. Bielikova, N. Kamkova. In organizing the International Ballet Compatition in Warna, Danuta Piasecka was working with B. Bregvadze. She also received advice from A. Puszkin. The knowledge acquired in these projects enabled her and her husband Jaroslaw Piasecki to be co-authors of the first polish classical ballet and ballet literature curriculum at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music), where in 1972 studies for dance educationalists were enrolled. D. Piasecka’s curriculum is based on petersburgian school of classical ballet.