Maya Plisetskaya

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Personal Info

gender

Female

birthday

November 20, 1925

died

May 2, 2015

place of birth

Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

also known as

Maïa Plissetskaïa · М. Плисецкая · M. Plisetskaya

total credits

20 movies

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.

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