Natalia Dudinskaya
- Birth Date:
- 21.08.1912
- Death date:
- 29.01.2003
- Length of life:
- 90
- Days since birth:
- 40798
- Years since birth:
- 111
- Days since death:
- 7766
- Years since death:
- 21
- Person's maiden name:
- Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya
- Extra names:
- Наталия Дудинская, Natālija Dudinska, Наталия Михайловна Дудинская
- Categories:
- Actor, Ballerina, ballet dancer
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (21 August [O.S. 8 August] 1912, Kharkiv — 29 January 2003, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dudinskaya's mother was Natalia Tagliori, a ballerina coached by Enrico Cecchetti. Trained by Agrippina Vaganova, Dudinskaya matriculated from her school in 1931. She danced all the classical leads at the Kirov Theatre before her frail health forced her to retire in 1951. During her career, she received the total of four Stalin Prizes. In 1957, she was named a People's Artist of the USSR.
Upon her retirement, Dudinskaya became the ballet mistress of the Vaganova School and Kirov Ballet. After Rudolf Nureyev, their disciple, defected to the West, she and her husband, Konstantin Sergeyev, were subjected to reprimands from Soviet officials. Anastasia Volochkova and Ulyana Lopatkina were among the last ballerinas coached by her.
Source: wikipedia.org
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