Svetlana Adyrkhaeva
Svetlana Adyrkhaeva | |
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Светлана Адырхаева | |
Born | Svetlana Dzantemirovna Adyrkhaeva 12 May 1938 |
Died | 27 August 2023 Moscow, Russia | (aged 85)
Education | Leningrad State Choreographic Institute (now Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) |
Occupation | Ballerina |
Employer | Bolshoi Theatre |
Awards | People's Artist of the USSR |
Svetlana Dzantemirovna Adyrkhaeva (Russian: Светлана Дзантемировна Адырхаева; 12 May 1938 – 27 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian Ossetian ballerina. She was made People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
Biography
Adyrkhaeva was born on 12 May 1938 in a village of Khumalag in North Ossetia. She received ballet training at the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute and graduated from there in 1955. Three years later she danced Odette-Odile (in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake) and won first prize for it. She was a soloist with the Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1955 to 1958 and the Odessa State Academic Theatre from 1958 to 1960.[1]
In 1960 she became a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, remaining with the company until 1988.[2] There, she became Galina Ulanova's disciple and also received further mentorship from Marina Semyonova. She participated in a ballet for two generations playing characters such as Aegina in Spartacus, and many others.[3] From 1978 to 1981 she was member of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts from which she graduated in 1980 and became a teacher there a year later. 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 from 2001.[2]
Adyrkhaeva died on 27 August 2023, at the age of 85.[1]
References
- ^ a b Умерла балерина Светлана Адырхаева (in Russian)
- ^ a b "Svetlana Adyrkhaeva". Bolshoi Ballet. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ "Svetlana Adyrkhaeva". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
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