Ekaterina Maximova in Galatea ( My Fair Lady) Elizas First Ballet Lesson (, 2)

Ekaterina Maximova plays Eliza Doolittle in the balletmovie Galatea, which is based on George Bernard Shaw s play Pygmalion about a phonetics professor (Henry Higgins) who takes in a Cockneyaccented flower girl to teach her to speak proper English. Shaw s play inspired the musical My Fair Lady, as well as the beloved film of the same name that starred Audrey Hepburn. The ballet version has a similar yet modified premise: here, Eliza is taken in by a ballet instructor (played by Maris Liepa), who endea br, br,