Occupation Ballerina Name Svetlana Adyrkhaeva | Employer Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow | |
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Full Name Svetlana Dzantemirovna adirhaeva Born May 12, 1938 (age 86) ( 1938-05-12 ) Khumalag, Northern Ossetia Education Vaganova Choreography School Awards People's Artist of the USSR Similar Ludmila Semenyaka, Maya Plisetskaya, Nadezhda Pavlova | ||
Svetlana adyrkhaeva and alan dance ensemble
Svetlana Adyrkhaeva (born May 12, 1938) (Russian: Светлана Дзантемировна Адырхаева) is an Ossetian and Soviet ballerina who was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
Contents
- Svetlana adyrkhaeva and alan dance ensemble
- Svetlana Adyrkhayeva and Maris Liepa in Spartacus
- Biography
- References
Svetlana Adyrkhayeva and Maris Liepa in Spartacus
Biography
Adyrkhaeva was born on May 12, 1938 in a village of Khumalag in Northern Ossetia. She received ballet training at the Vaganova Choreography School and graduated from there in 1955. Three years later she danced Odette-Odile and won first prize for it. In 1960 she was invited to do the same dance at the Bolshoi Theatre. There, she was disciplined by Galina Ulanova but received further mentorship from Marina Semyonova. She participated in a ballet for two generations playing characters such as Aegina in Spartacus, and many others. From 1978 to 1981 she was member of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts from she graduated in 1980 and became a teacher there a year after. From 1995 to 2001 she was a teacher at the Dance Academy of the New Humanitarian University of Natalia Nesterova and then held the same position at the Bolshoi Theater.