Svetlana Dzantemirovna Adyrkhaeva (born May 12, 1938) (russian: Светлана Дзантемировна Адырхаева) is an
Ossetian and Soviet
ballerina.
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
(1984).
Biography
Adyrkhaeva was born on May 12, 1938 in a village of
Khumalag in
North Ossetia
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. 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
The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...
.
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 Institute 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.
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References
1938 births
Living people
20th-century Russian ballet dancers
People's Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the USSR
Recipients of the Order of Friendship (South Ossetia)
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian people of Ossetian descent
Soviet ballerinas
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