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Maya Plisetskaya
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2012
Das Ewige Antlitz
Movie Cinematography
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2008
Mariinsky Theatre
Movie Self
- 2008
- 2006
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1987
Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
Movie Self
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1986
Lady with a Lapdog
Movie
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1985
M.K.C. Zodiakas
Movie Муза
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1978
Carmen Suite
Movie Carmen
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1976
Fantasia
Movie
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1975
Anna Karenina
Movie Anna Karenina
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1972
Le Grand Échiquier
TV show Self
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1970
Tchaikovsky
Movie Desire
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1970
New Year's Abduction
Movie Plisetskaya
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1970
Ballerina
Movie Herself
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1969
World's Young Ballet
Movie
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1967
Anna Karenina
Movie princess Betsy
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1966
New Year's Calendar
Movie
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1964
Maya Plisetskaya
Movie Self
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1962
The Little Humpbacked Horse
Movie Queen Maiden
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1959
Khovanshchina
Movie
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1957
Swan Lake
Movie Odette / Odile
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1954
Stars of the Russian Ballet
Movie Zarema (segment "Fountains of Bakhchisarai")
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