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Name: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya
Birth Date: November 20, 1925
Place of Birth: Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Female
Occupations: ballet dancer

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Biography of Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya
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The Russian dancer Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (born 1925) epitomized the best of Soviet ballet. The career of Maya Plisetskaya, the celebrated Soviet ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and director, spans almost 50 years. Her impulsive, dynamic, and...


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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; born November 20, 1925) is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times. Maya Plisetskaya is a naturalized Spanish...


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Publishers Weekly
I, MAYA PLISETSKAYA.(Review)
10/01/2001: 488 words, approx. 2 pages
MAYA PLISETSKAYA, TRANS. FROM THE RUSSIAN BY ANTONINA W. BOUIS, FOREWORD BY TIM SCHOLL. Yale Univ., $35 (448p) ISBN 0-300-08857-4 This is much more than an artistic memoir -- it is a courageous account of an era. Plisetskaya was born in Moscow...
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Dance Magazine
Plisetskaya: still riveting at 71. (ballerina Maya Plisetskaya)(Interview)
12/01/1996: 1,292 words, approx. 4 pages
Plisetskaya has lost none of the charisma so evident during her years as a Bolshoi ballerina. She is enthusiastic about her work hosting the Maya Plisetskaya Competitions, but is disillusioned by the Russian ballet authorities, whose policies did not improve even after the fall...
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The New York Observer
A Bastion of Bravura, The Bolshoi Wows Its Fans
8/7/2005: 1,865 words, approx. 6 pages
In 1874, the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville traveled to St. Petersburg, where, as he tells us in his memoirs, “I saw in turn Le Papillon, La Fille du Pharaon, Don Quixote, Esmeralda, and Le Roi Candaule …. I did justice to the richly imaginative...
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The New York Observer
A Bastion of Bravura, The Bolshoi Wows Its Fans
8/7/2005: 1,865 words, approx. 6 pages
In 1874, the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville traveled to St. Petersburg, where, as he tells us in his memoirs, “I saw in turn Le Papillon, La Fille du Pharaon, Don Quixote, Esmeralda, and Le Roi Candaule …. I did justice to the richly imaginative...
 


 

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