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  • noun Russian ballet dancer (1910-1998)

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Examples

  • Now watch thisGalina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya in a 1953 film of The Fountain of Bakhchisarai.

    The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010

  • This is the version that triumphed in Russia and was brought to the West: We saw it during the first Bolshoi visit to New York, in 1959, with the 49-year-old Ulanova as a sublime Juliet.

    A Happy Ending, No Balcony���Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? 2008

  • This is the version that triumphed in Russia and was brought to the West: We saw it during the first Bolshoi visit to New York, in 1959, with the 49-year-old Ulanova as a sublime Juliet.

    A Happy Ending, No Balcony���Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? 2008

  • Toronto balletomanes who saw the Bolshoi Ballet's first performance of "Giselle" at Maple Leaf Gardens will remember the great ballerina Galina Ulanova.

    Canada's Artistic Boom II 1984

  • I remember talking to Maia Plissetskaya (who has now replaced Ulanova as prima ballerina).

    The Soviet Challenge in Asia 1960

  • Meanwhile, over at the Coliseum, the famed Soviet-era ballerina Galina Ulanova was celebrated in a one-off gala.

    Evening Standard - Home Sarah Frater 2011

  • The joint best score from the judges - and highest judges' scores of the series so far - went to Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter, with her partner Matt Evers, whose 21.5 was matched by Emmerdale actor Matthew Wolfenden and Nina Ulanova.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012

  • Wolfenden's partner Ulanova had fallen and hurt herself in training but they pleased the judges with their dancing and she said: "It's trust in your partner, I'm very proud of Matthew."

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012

  • In 2005, she received the first Ulanova Prize, for "selfless dedication to the art of dance," at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

    BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009

  • Romeo and Juliet: pas de deux (Ulanova-Gabovich, 1951)

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

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