Mira Yevgenyevna Redina (russian: Мира Евгеньевна Редина; February 8, 1926 — August 2011) was a ballet dancer, in 1944 to 1965 soloist of the

Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (russian: Московский академический Музыкальный театр имени народных артистов К. С. Станиславског ...

. Starred in the movie

Russian Ballerina This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigra ...

(1947).

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Honored Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Zasluzhenny artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achievements in the ...

(1957).

Biography

Mira Redina was born in Kaluga in Yevgeny Redin's family of February 8, 1926. She studied at the

Moscow State Academy of Choreography The Moscow State Academy of Choreography (russian: Московская государственная академия хореографии), commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of ball ...

, the class teachers

Elizaveta Gerdt Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt (russian: Елизавета Павловна Гердт; – 6 November 1975) was a Russian dancer and teacher whose career links the Russian imperial and Soviet schools of classical dance. A daughter of celebrated ...

and Maria Kozhukhova. Among her classmates were

Raisa Struchkova Raisa Stepanovna Struchkova (russian: Раиса Степановна Стручкова) (5 October 19252 May 2005) was a Russian dancer and People's Artist of the USSR. Biography Struchkova was born on 5 October 1925 in Moscow to a factory wo ...

and Violetta Bovt.Стручкова: К 100-летию Н. И. Тарасова
/ref> During the war, together with the school was evacuated to

Vasilsursk Vasilsursk (russian: Васильсу́рск) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Vorotynsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Sura River, not far from its fall into the Volga. History A Kuruk Mari (a tribe ...

. After graduating in 1944, Redina joined the Moscow Musical Theatre Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, where she danced until 1965. He performed principal roles in ballets by Nikolay Holfin, Alexey Chichinadze and Vladimir Burmeister.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Redina, Mira 1926 births 2011 deaths Russian ballerinas Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses People from Kaluga Honored Artists of the RSFSR 20th-century Russian ballet dancers 20th-century Russian women