Ballerina

Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1943 to 1960 and prima balerina assoluta from 1960 to 1990.

A ballerina is a female ballet dancer.

Although the term ballerina is used for any female ballet dancer it was originally a rank given to an exceptional ballet soloist in the Russian Imperial ballet companies. The rankings, from highest to lowest, were:

prima ballerina assoluta
prima ballerina
ballerina
premieres danseur
soloist
coryphee
corps de ballet

There were only two prima ballerina assoluta in Imperial Russia - Pierina Legnani and Mathilde Kschessinska, and two prima ballerina assoluta in Soviet Russia - Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya

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