- For a long time, they were considered an enviable bachelor, but it turned out that you were married for a long time. Why only recently did you declassify your wife and daughter?
- First, somehow I did not want to advertise. There is one rule that I am guided by: "Happiness loves silence!". Secondly, I listened to the opinion of colleagues for a long time, leading examples of artists who, as soon as they declassified, immediately stopped collecting stadiums. Therefore, I always left the answer to personal questions, I tried to hump. Thirdly, I do not like when artists tell more about their personal life than about creativity.
"So you abandoned your slogan - happiness loves silence?"
- No way. After all, I do not plan to turn it into the cult - to praise the family, the achievements of your loved ones, wives and children. Just decided to no longer hide from the public the most intimate. At the same time, put a family life, as many artists do, I do not plan.
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- Then tell about your wife Elena. I know that she has an unusual last name Albul. Who is she, what does it do?
"She's now Balykova (laughs), but decided to leave the creative albul albul. I can tell about her for hours, days, weeks. She dances like a goddess! No dancer in the world does not express emotions to the body of the body, as my wife does. She recordsman of Russia in the number of performances in which she took part: to say, there are already several thousands of them. Musicles "Chicago", "Cinderella", "sowing in the rain", "Beauty and the Beast", "sounds of music", "Mermaid", etc. Moreover, in New York, there was the brightest artist in the famous Broadway Show Broadway Dreams. She became the only Russian dancer who was invited to Broadway. It was a real, deafening success. She still receives proposals to participate in the Show on Broadway. Today Elena is not just a ballerina, it is a synthetic artist of musicals. She is ingenious dancing, sings gorgeously, owning acting skills. I have not seen in Russia artists who possess all these data at such a professional level!
- How did you meet?
- We are both of the Altai Territory. I got acquainted, being students when I was looking for dancers for my concert program. From the very first day, she took the brazers of the board of choreography into their own hands, and began ... (smiles.) I looked at her work for a long time and could not break it away, for her it is a separate world. I fell in love with her first like a dancer, then like a woman.
- It happened right away?
- On my part very quickly, but no one knew about it. I walked around several months, I suffered, suffered, because she was in a relationship with another. But once I decided to show her my new song, which I myself wrote. And I asked the Professional Council: what to do if the song is dedicated to one girl, and I do not know how she should say about it. When the song is over, she said that I would have squeezed from happiness if someone wrote such a song for her. I, without thinking for a long time, answered: "Then you can rightly now squeeze from happiness!" You would have seen what shock she experienced at that moment, how much doubt, embarrassment, questions and other emotions was on her face. I will never forget this moment.
Alexander Balykov has long been married
Photo: Personal archive
- Two creative people in the house - what is it like?
- It is difficult if working together. When she led the show-ballet, which was under my wing, dust stood with a post, because all professional disputes were transferred home. We decided to divide the decision on time and do not work together. But the fate is still constantly confronted on the scene. We often participate in some concerts, in performances and television projects.
- How did you decide to move to Moscow?
- About it you can shoot a movie. We finished the institute in one year and decided to move. We needed development, we felt that we have the potential, efficiency and desire. We downloaded things into the car and drove 4000 km 3 days before the capital of our Motherland. These are these difficult times and forced us to check each other for stamina and believe each other 100%.
- What happened?
- Being famous artists in the Altai Territory, we thought that there was a city of opportunity, and we quickly realize ourselves, but it was not there. We turned out to be no one in Moscow, there were very difficult times. We visited the castings, contests and listening to theaters, on TV projects, everywhere heard failures, frustrated, shared with each other, cheated, but did not give up. In the evenings I had to sing in restaurants, after that at night to tackle. Then there were no navigators, therefore Lena sat with the card to the next seat and was the navigator. Just was the relevant the joke "Darog Pashem". So we learned all the streets of Moscow for 4 months, and she became a hometown for us.
- But did you continue to dream of a big scene?
- Certainly. We continued to go to castings, made work on mistakes and went to new castings. So Lena fell into his first serious theater project "Beauty and the Beast", and I - in the show that was filmed in America, "Russian tenors".
Artist's wife Elena - Dancer
Photo: Personal archive
- How did you experience the separation?
- We were in touch every day. I will not chat, there were scenes of jealousy, and the moments, when I had to find out the relationship, but by returning to Moscow I realized that I want to live all my life with this woman, and made her a proposal of my hand and heart.
- Now, when you have a full-fledged family, how did you distribute the duties on the house? Or does the housekeeper help?
- We have no housekeeper, and, despite the fact that we are constantly on tour, Lena somehow manages the house to contain in perfect purity. I, on the contrary, I can not even notice that my pants stayed on the couch, socks in the corner, shirt on the chair, the belt under the chair and so on. I wake up in the morning, and magic happens - the perfect order. As it combines creative growth, does not lose himself professionally, but at the same time is an ideal mistress - it still remains a mystery to me.
- Lena loves to cook? What is surprising?
- She cooks and makes it very talented. In everyday life she created some kind of system that I can not understand. It can from the evening to prepare one part of the products, in the morning, while he is engaged in a child and he prepares another part. And all this in order to create a single dish in the evening. Moreover, it often saves intrigue to the last.
- While you are on tour, who sits with a child?
- With katya, we have worn a nanny for a long time, now the grandmother and grandfather moved to Moscow and live closely from us, so everything in business, especially, Kati has such a time when you do not have to sit. We downloaded it in full and only we manage to move from one school to another.
Alexander for a long time hid not only wife, but also daughter
Photo: Personal archive
- Have you been playing sports in childhood, my daughter set love for him?
- Yes, she is engaged in figure skating. We gave it quite late, just a year and a half ago, at six years old. Everyone was discouraged, advised not to waste time in vain, but my girlfriend Nastya Grebenkina advised to try and give her a chance. A year later, we caught up with all its peers who are trained for 3 years. I see how she does, sometimes falls, through pain, with tears in his eyes rises and continues to perform certain jumps. Now we are preparing for the first competitions - we will look at the results.
- When did Katya go to the first class, worried?
- We worried more than she - that's for sure. She is a very active child who is easily distracted and does not sit in one place for a long time. But while the cool leader does not complain.
- Have you prepared her for school?
- Yes, read literature. Grandmother takes an active part in learning. We learned and read, and write to school. By the way, there was a fear that interests in school would disappear, if she already knows everything, but for me it was a revelation that in the first grade all the children know the alphabet and read well. Nowadays there was no such time.
- According to old kindergartens and girlfriends do not bored?
- We have half of the kindergarten group moved to school. Therefore, for her school is a continuation of parties. She is already familiar with everyone. On the 1st of September there was no constraint, Polklass was their own. They have their own interests, some games, at home prepare their chips, something hide something from their parents. Therefore, for her, a school is not only a system of education, but also a friendship: Friendship continues.
Now the girl has already gone to the first class
- In school know who Parents Kati?
- Sure. All the children's kindergarte staff, in which Katya went, was at my concerts. I often helped them in music, even sang on Catin graduation. I think the school will not bypass our creative family.
- Bulk Katya or not?
- Katya is more inclined to indulge me than Lena. Lena is strict, and it is easier for me to spin on some "prohibitory". Well, and I'm more often on tour, I want to pamper your beloved daughter. Now, Kati had a tooth, she faded the tooth front. I tried to explain that this is a very expensive gift from the dental fairies, to which she briefly replied me: "What do you say that? Fairy does not buy a phone in the store, she does not spend money, she clogs! Therefore, the cost does not care absolutely. " Then I tried to explain that it was too early to have a phone again, but she again very logically parried: "What if you be late, picking me up from school, then you can call me and warn." The "dental fairies" did not have a chance left, and she "found" the phone. What is the most interesting, I have already got into a traffic jam and late when I took Katya from the training session, I called to warn her, and she reminded me that there was a right.