Name Vera Volkova | ||
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Died May 5, 1975, Copenhagen, Denmark Similar People Giuseppina Strepponi, Roland Petit, George Balanchine | ||
Vera Volkova (Russian: Bepa Boлкoвa; (31 May 1905 – 5 May 1975) was a Russian ballet dancer and expatriate dance teacher.
Born in Tomsk, she trained at Petrograd's Akim Volynsky's School of Russian Ballet. She also studied with the renowned Russian ballet mistress Agrippina Vaganova. She danced professionally with various ensembles such as the GATOB and the Flying Russian Ballet before defecting in 1929.
She spent a number of years teaching at the Sadler's Wells Ballet and Sadler's Wells Ballet School, training some of the leading English dancers of the 20th Century. She also taught at the Ballet School of the La Scala Theatre in Milan. She became a permanent teacher at the Royal Danish Ballet school in the 1950s, again training some of the school's greatest dancers.