Maya Plisetskaya
Birthday: 1925-11-20
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Biography: Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
Movies
Новогодний календарь
New Year's TV show with the participation of popular Soviet entertainers....
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Swan Lake
Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of...
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Mariinsky Theatre
A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Carmen Suite
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in l...
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy...
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Tchaikovsky
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the l...
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M.K.C. Zodiakas
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's liv...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881....
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Stars of the Russian Ballet
An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaik...
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New Year's Abduction
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to...
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Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School, becomi...
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Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
Product Description ••••• A complete 1978 performance of this classic ballet stars the magnificent...
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Lady with a Lapdog
Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the ...
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
A film adaptation of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet staged by the USSR State Ballet Theater....
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World's Young Ballet
In 1969, the Moscow International Competition of Ballet Artists played host to some of the dance wor...
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Yevgeny Svetlanov. A Memory...
The telefilm is dedicated to one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Yevgeny Fyodorovich...
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