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Born 1935 Leningrad, Russia Occupation Photographer and writer for Dance Magazine and Ballet Review Similar Nonna Bannister, Anna Akhmatova, Svetlana Alliluyeva | ||
Nina Alovert (born 1935) is a ballet photographer and writer. She lives in the United States, following her emigration from Russia in 1977.
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Alovert was the photographer for the 1986 Emmy Award-winning program Wolf Trapp Presents the Kirov Swan Lake. She won an international ballet prize in 2003, the Prix Benois de la Danse "Diploma For Bringing Two Great Cultures Closer Together".
Biography
Alovert was born in Leningrad in 1935. She graduated from Leningrad State University with a Master of Arts degree in history. With interest in history and ballet dance, she started her career as a curator for the Comedy Theatre Museum. She then worked for the Komissarzhevskaya and Lensoviet Theatres as a photographer. In the early 1950s she worked as a photographer for the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky).
In 1977, Alovert moved to the United States. There she worked for Dance Magazine and Ballet Review as a freelance photographer. The Russian newspapers in the United States, such as Novoe Russkoe Slovo and Novy Amerikanets, featured photographs of ballet taken by Alovert. She has published her photographs in many journals and books in Russia and in other countries, and has held solo shows in New York City, London, St. Petersburg, and other centers.
Credits
Alovert has photographed personalities associated with Russian culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Sergey Dovlatov, Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vladimir Visotsky, Marina Vlady, Mikhail Kozakov, Solomon Volkov, Natalia Makarova, Vladimir Voinovich, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, and Diana Vishneva.
In 2015 Alovert, then an octogenarian, staged a photo exhibition titled "The Gorgeous Features of My Dear Friends" at the ARKA art gallery in Vladivostok, and again in March 2016 at the Museum of Modern Arts in Birobidzhan, capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. On 6 November 2015, she gave a talk, supplemented with her photographs of illustrious Russian ballet dancers and writers like Sergey Dovlatov, Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, and Diana Vishneva, to the students and professors of the theater department of the Far Eastern Arts Academy; she repeated this presentation before a general audience at the city public library.
As author
Alovert has authored: