James Bridges Theater
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures (SEEELC), in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television (TFT), the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS), invites you to a screening of the documentary film “Donna Tanya” directed by Tatiana Sorokina. After the film, SEEELC and TFT Professor Lilya Kaganovsky will lead a Q&A session with its creator—UCLA alumna, writer and scholar Maya Kucherskaya.
About the Film
What eras and cultural layers can fit into a single human life? What shapes a person’s cultural identity—whose heirs are we, and whose descendants? “Donna Tanya. One Hundred Years of Happiness” is a documentary about Tatiana Leskova, a 102-year-old ballerina in Brazil. Born in 1922 in Paris and now living in Rio de Janeiro, she is also the great-granddaughter of Nikolai Leskov, one of Russia’s best 19th-century novelists. As a ballet dancer, she is an heir to Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the founder of Brazilian ballet, which she built upon the teachings of Marius Petipa’s and Diaghilev’s disciples. The film is in Russian with English subtitles.
Venue
James Bridges Theater
235 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking
Parking Structure 3
215 Charles E Young Dr N
Los Angeles, CA 90024
