Презентация на тему по английскому языку по теме Искусство (11 класс)

– 2 May 2015) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet

director, and actress, who held Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the same time as Galina Ulanova, another famed Russian ballerina. In 1960 she ascended to Ulanova's former title as prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi.

performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when she was eleven.

quickly rising to become their leading soloist. Her early

years were also marked by political repression, however, partly because her family was Jewish.

country for sixteen years after joining the Bolshoi. During

those years, her fame as a national ballerina was used to project the Soviet Union's achievements during the Cold War. Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who lifted her travel ban in 1959, considered her "not only the best ballerina in the Soviet Union, but the best in the world.

her skill as a dancer changed the world of

ballet, setting a higher standard for ballerinas both in terms of technical brilliance and dramatic presence. As a soloist, Plisetskaya created a number of leading roles, including Moiseyev’s Spartacus (1958);Grigorovich’s The Stone Flower (1959); Aurora in Grigorovich’s The Sleeping Beauty (1963); Alberto Alonso’s Carmen Suite (1967), written especially for her; and Maurice Bejart’s Isadora (1976).

Lake (1947). A fellow dancer stated that her dramatic portrayal

of Carmen, reportedly her favorite role, "helped confirm her as a legend, and the ballet soon took its place as a landmark in the Bolshoi repertoire." Her husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin, wrote the scores to a number of her ballets.

“box office hit throughout the world,” Plisetskaya was treated

by the Soviet Union as a favored cultural emissary. 

Beginning in 1994, she presided over the annual international ballet competitions, called Maya, and in 1996 she was named President of the Imperial Russian Ballet.