Violetta Bovt

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Trofimovna and the family name is Bovt.

Violetta Bovt
Виолетта Бовт
Bovt in the Netherlands, 1965
Born(1927-05-09)May 9, 1927
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedApril 22, 1995(1995-04-22) (aged 67)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationBallet dancer

Violetta Trofimovna Bovt[a] (9 May 1927 – 22 April 1995) was an American–Soviet ballet dancer.

Biography

Bovt was born in Los Angeles, United States. In the 1930s, her father, a communist sympathizer, moved the family to the Soviet Union; he died in the early 1940s fighting at the World War II front near Leningrad.[1]

In 1944, Bovt graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and started dancing at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. Her roles included:[2][3]

Bovt never gave up her American citizenship. For this reason, she was not accepted as a permanent performer with the Bolshoi Ballet and Mariinsky Ballet, despite being a frequent guest star there. She was also not allowed to perform in the United States. She worked at the Stanislavski theatre for 42 years, 35 years as a dancer and 7 as a teacher. A biographical TV film Интервью, которого не было (Interview that never happened) about Bovt was produced in 1968.[4] In 1986, when the Soviet borders became softer, Bovt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she was hired by BalletMet.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Russian: Виолетта Трофимовна Бовт, romanized: Violetta Trofimovna Bovt, sometimes given as Boft

References

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  1. ^ a b Barbara Zuck (30 April 1995) "For Violetta Boft, to live was to dance", The Columbus Dispatch
  2. ^ Бовт Виолетта Трофимовна. Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  3. ^ Л. М. БОВТ, Виолетта Трофимовна. Encyclopedia of Theatre. gumer.info
  4. ^ Интервью, которого не было. kino-teatr.ru