The Ballerina Who Embodied The Bolshoi – And Hated The Soviets – Dies At 89

Maya Plisetskaya, “renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s. Vadim Gayevsky, a dance historian and critic, once said she ‘began by creating her own style and ended up creating her own theater.'”