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unusual facts about Kirov Ballet



Eva Evdokimova

Throughout her career, she danced with numerous other companies, including the Kirov Ballet, where she was coached by Natalia Dudinskaya, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet.

Inna Zubkovskaya

Zubkovskaya did not dance frequently in the West, although in 1961 when the Kirov made its first appearances outside Russia, she was the first-cast Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and was partnered by Vladilen Semyonov.

Julia Moon

In December 1989, Julia Moon made her debut with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad in a performance of Giselle.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde

In 1984, she became the first Filipina prima ballerina, and first foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet.

Ninel Kurgapkina

She graduated her ballet school and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1947, where she danced such roles as Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha (Giselle), Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri (Don Quixote) and Parasha (The Bronze Horseman).

Shelagh McKenna

The American Dance Guild invited her to speak on choreography for the camera at the Hong Kong International Dance Conference and Selma Jeanne Cohen invited her to confer with members of the Kirov Ballet on dance archiving.


see also

Vladimir Ponomaryov

Vladimir Ponomaryov (choreographer) (1892-1951), Soviet choreographer known for staging La Bayadère in 1941 for Kirov Ballet