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Thursday and Svetlana Adyrkhaeva
Born on May 12, 1938, Svetlana Adyrkhaeva received her dance training at the Leningrad Ballet
School(Vaganova Choreography School), graduating in 1955. Three years later she
performed the principal role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake to great acclaim.In
1960 she was invited to dance the same role at the Bolshoi Theater where she
remained until the late 1970s.
She performed for many years dancing such roles as Aegina in Spartacus, and many others. Later in her career
(1978-1981) she was member of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
from which she graduated in 1980 and became a teacher there.
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 the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Factoid #173:
“Svetlana Adyrkhaeva was a Russian
ballerina who was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.”
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