With her experience with the ballet Anna Karenina , Maya Plisetskaya created the choreography and performed the title role.
After the premiere, ballet critic Natalia Krymova wrote: "Maya Plisetskaya's role in this performance is fully consistent with the spirit of the play and expresses the diversity of emotions so important to the author.
Personifying Nina Zarechnaya, she dances only what "flows freely from the soul."
Plisetskaya's dance in "The Seagull" can rightly be attributed to these words: "the life of the human spirit."
She dreams that a gas cylinder explodes in her country house and she screams throughout the hall.