Throwback Thursday and Violetta Bovt
Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1927
Violetta Trofinovna Bovt became a ballet dancer in the Soviet Union.
Her father was a communist sympathizer
and he moved the family to what was then the Soviet Union. He died fighting
near the front in Leningrad during WWII. He was in his 40s.
Violetta Bovt trained at the Bolshoi
Ballet Academy, graduated in 1944 and began performing at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow
Academic Music Theatre in Moscow. Some of her roles included
Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Anne Page
in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and
Esmeralda in La Esmeralda, among others.
Since she never gave up her American
citizenship, Violetta Bovt was never accepted as a permanent performer with
either the Bolshoi or the Maryinsky. She was also not permitted to dance in the
United States. Instead she performed as a guest artist in Russia and worked at
the Stanislavski theatre as a dancer and as a teacher. A film about her life entitled
Interview that Never Happened was produced in 1968.
When the political climate changed she
moved to Columbus, Ohio where she was hired by BalletMet.
Violetta Bovt died on April 22, 1995,
aged 67 years.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet Secret #318:
“Violetta Bovt was an
American citizen who danced in the Soviet Union.”
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traveled from the point where they started.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
― Henry Ward Beecher
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