Vera Shvetsova (1929,

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) is a ballet teacher and balletmaster. She was trained by the famous teacher Vaganova and was one of Vaganova’s best students. Like her teacher, Shvetsova worked in several colleges, conservatories, and academies of dance in different countries (

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, etc.), including at The College of Ballet and Choreography in Minsk,
Web site of The National Academic Bolshoi Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus (

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), She danced in The Mali of

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(Russia) and

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, Latvia (

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in our time) Famous pupils:

Tatiana Stepanova Tatiana Viktorovna Stepanova, also Tetiana Stepanova, (; , ''Tetiana Viktorivna Stepanova'') (born 1962, Odesa, Ukraine then Soviet Union) is a Ballet master, choreographer, ballet dancer, critic, essayist and historian of the dance. Biography T ...

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, Liliya Ruhukya and others.

Prizes and awards

* 1958: ''Emerite Artist of

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References

* Grigorovich, Yuriy Nikolayevich (1981). Balet Entsiklopediya, Moskva: Izdatelstvo "Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya". .

External links

Official site of The Latvian National Opera (in Latvian and English languages)
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