The great Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya victim died Saturday of a heart attack at age 89 , announced the Bolshoi theater director Vladimir Urin.
“ died of a severe heart attack. The doctors tried everything, but could do nothing “Urin was quoted by the Russian news agency TASS, adding that he had been informed by the husband of the dancer , the famous Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin.
The dancer, nicknamed “Queen of the Air” , achieved one of his first successes with the performance, in 1947, of “Swan Lake”.
Thanks to its versatility, able to interpret such diverse characters as the mad Zarina of “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai” the perverse Kitri in “Don Don Quixote “,” Carmen “and” Anna Karenina “.
Plisetskaya was awarded in 2005 with another Spanish ballerina Tamara Rojo, with The Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts , to be considered the “most brilliant dancers dance history” . The jury understood that Plisetskaya had “turned the dance into a form of poetry in motion, to combine technical quality with exquisite artistic and human sensibility.”
( AFP )
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