Shelest, Alla

Alla Shelest Photos

Alla Shelest Biography

Notable: 1919 – 1998; Mariinsky Ballet

Alla Shelest was born in Smolensk in 1919. She graduated from Leningrad Choreographic School 1937, where she was a pupil of Elizaveta Gerdt and Agrippina Vaganova. Dancer with the Kirov Ballet 1937-63.

She coached Tatiana Terekhova, Olga Chenchikova and Uliana Lopatkina.

Repertoire includes:

• Spartacus (Aegina)
• Stone Flower (Katerina and Mistress of the Copper Mountain)
• The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Zarema)
• La Bayadere (Nikia)
• Laurencia, Shurave (Suimbike)
• Giselle (Giselle and Myrtha)

Awards:

• People’s Artist of the USSR