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Plisetskaya, Maya Mikhailovna (11/20/1925), Soviet ballet dancer, national artist of USSR (1959).
In 1943 he graduated from the Moscow Ballet School (teachers Gerdt, Mikhail Leontiev), and was admitted to the Bolshoi Theater.
The first major party – Masha ("The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, 1944). In plastic Plisetskaya dance art reaches a high harmony ("The Dying Swan" to music by Camille Saint-Saens, and others), she found new ways of interpreting the music of Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Bizet.
Artistic individuality Plisetskaya close and lyrical, and the heroic roles: Odette-Odile ("Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky), Mistress of Copper Mountain ("The Stone Flower" by Prokofiev), Raymonda (Raymonda Glazunov), Kitri (Don Quixote "by Minkus) Aurora ("Sleeping Beauty" by Tchaikovsky), Carmen ("Carmen Suite" to music by Bizet – Shchedrin), Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina "Shchedrin), etc.
In the dance of Maya Plisetskaya combines the best traditions of Russian culture and innovative choreographic aspirations of the Soviet choreographers. In 1972, together with NI Ryzhenko and VV Smirnov-Golovanov put ballet "Anna Karenina" (by Leo Tolstoy) at the Bolshoi.
She has toured the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Canada and other countries. Lenin Prize (1964). She was awarded the Order of Lenin and medals.
Lit.: Roslavlev N., Maya Plisetskaya, M., 1968.