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Place of Birth
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Date of Birth
1925-11-20 (100 Years old)
Date of Death
2015-05-02
Maya Plisetskaya
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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