Lutfi Zohidova
Lutfi Zohidova | |
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Лутфи Зоҳидова | |
Born | |
Died | 10 October 1995 | (aged 69)
Occupation | Ballet dancer |
Organization | Tajik Ballet |
Lutfi Zohidova (Tajik: Лутфи Зоҳидова; 6 November 1925 – 10 October 1995) was a Soviet and Tajik ballet dancer.
Biography
[edit]Zohidova was born in Konibodom, Tajik ASSR, and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1957. She studied at the Dushanbe Women's Pedagogical Institute, and from 1939 until 1941 was a member of the Union of Workers Ensemble in Moscow; in the latter year she was accepted as a member of the Tajik Ballet. Her debut with the company came in La fille mal gardée by Peter Ludwig Hertel, and she performed as a soloist at the theater throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Among the most notable roles which she essayed during her career were Maria in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Boris Asafyev; Odette in Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Layla in Layla and Majnun by Sergey Balasanian; and the title roles in Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev; La Esmeralda by Cesare Pugni, and Dilbar by Alexander Lensky. She also directed the Dushanbe School of Choreography for a time. She toured with the company in June 1961, and shortly thereafter, retired from the ballet and became an instructor.[1]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1949) – for her portrayal of Layla in the ballet play Layla and Majnun by Sergey Balasanian
- People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (1949)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1954)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1957)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References
[edit]- ^ "Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century". fayllar.org. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- 1925 births
- 1995 deaths
- 20th-century ballet dancers
- People from Konibodom
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- People's Artists of Tajikistan
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Soviet ballerinas
- Soviet female dancers
- Tajikistani ballet dancers