Irina Kolpakova
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (December 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Irina Kolpakova | |
---|---|
Born | Irina Aleksandrovna Kolpakova 22 May 1933 |
Occupation(s) | Ballerina, choreographer, pedagogue |
Irina Aleksandrovna Kolpakova (Russian: Ирина Александровна Колпакова; born 22 May 1933)[1][2] is a Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1965) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1983).
Biography
She was the prima ballerina of the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (now the Mariinsky Theatre) in Saint Petersburg. From 1974 to 1979, she served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1]
In the 1990s, she worked for several seasons as choreographer and coach at the American Ballet Theatre in New York City. She is currently a professor of classical dance at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg and a ballet coach at American Ballet Theatre.
She is married to the noted ballet dancer Vladilen Semyonov, also a People's Artist of the USSR. They live in the Tolstoy House building in Saint Petersburg.[3]
Awards and honors
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1960)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1965)
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1971)
- USSR State Prize (1980)
- Order of Lenin (1983)
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1983)[1][4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Brief biography at Heroes of the Country (in Russian)
- ^ "75-летний юбилей отмечает народная артистка СССР Ирина Колпакова" [People's Artist of USSR Irina Kolpakova celebrates her 75th birthday]. Oreanda News (in Russian). 22 May 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Знаменитые жители Толстовского дома [Tolstoy House and its Famous Residents] (in Russian). Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2009 (in Russian)
External links
- Brief biography at Soviet Screen website (in Russian)
- CS1 Russian-language sources (ru)
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Biography articles needing translation from Russian Wikipedia
- Articles with hCards
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Articles with Russian-language sources (ru)
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1933 births
- 20th-century Russian ballet dancers
- Living people
- Dancers from Saint Petersburg
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1963–1967
- Ninth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the USSR State Prize
- Russian ballet choreographers
- Russian ballet teachers
- Mariinsky Ballet dancers
- Russian prima ballerinas
- Prix Benois de la Danse jurors
- Russian women choreographers
- Soviet ballerinas
- Soviet choreographers