Alla Osipenko
Alla Osipenko in the Netherlands in 1968
Alla Osipenko (Russian:Осипенко, Алла Евгеньевна, born 16 June 1932 in Leningrad) is a retired Soviet ballerina. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School (now Vaganova Academy) in the class of Agrippina Vaganova.
Upon graduation she joined the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet) in 1950, and was promoted to prima ballerina in 1954. Her repertoire included: Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Waltz and Mazurka in Chopiniana, Masha in The Nutcracker, Frigia in Spartak, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower (1957), and Mekhmene-Banu in Legend of Love (1961). Osipenko left the Kirov in 1971.
See also
References
- Зозулина Н. Алла Осипенко. Л.: Искусство, 1987. — 220 с., илл. (Серия «Солисты балета»).
External links
- Alla Osipenko at the Internet Movie Database
- Alla Osipenko on www.ballerinagallery.com
- Short biography on the website of A. Sokurov
- Alla Osipenko. Dance as a way of life Exhibition in the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music
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