Vera Trefilova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vera Trefilova

Russian dancer

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1875

Place of Birth: Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1943

Profession: ballet dancer, dancer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Vera Trefilova

  • Vera Trefilova (Russian: ???? ????????????? ?????????) (b Vladikavkaz, 8 Oct.
  • 1875, d Paris, 11 July 1943) was a Russian dancer and teacher.
  • She studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg with Ekaterina Vazem and graduated in 1894.
  • She later studied with Evgenia Sokolova, Nikolai Legat, Catarina Beretta and Enrico Cecchetti.
  • She joined the ballet company at the Maryinsky Theatre in 1894 and was promoted to soloist in 1901.
  • She created roles in Lev Ivanov's Acis and Galatea (1896), N.
  • and S.
  • Legat's The Fairy Doll (1903), N.
  • Legat's The Blood-Red Flower (1907), and Mikhail Fokine's The Night of Terpsichore (1907).
  • In 1906 she was promoted to prima ballerina, known for her 32 fouettés.
  • She triumphed as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, but resigned in 1910, partly due to her dislike of Fokine's innovations, but above all due to a rivalry with the Maryinsky's reigning ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinska.In 1915 she made her debut as an actress at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St.
  • Petersburg. In 1917 she left Russia and opened a ballet school in Paris: among her pupils were Marina Svetlova, Mary Skeaping, Nina Vyroubova and Mari Bicknell.
  • Diaghilev invited her to dance Aurora in his 1921 London production of The Sleeping Princess.
  • In 1924, almost 50 years old, she danced Odette-Odile for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo, still amazing audiences with her fouetté turns.
  • She gave her final performance at His Majesty's Theatre in London in 1926.
  • She had three husbands, the third of whom was the dance critic Valerian Svetlov.

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