Olga Preobrajenska died on December 27, 1962. Olga was probably the best loved #ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet. Olga was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1879, she joined the Imperial Ballet School, where her teachers were Nicholas #Legat, Enrico #Cecchetti, and Christian #Johansson. After 10 years of intensive training, she moved to the #Mariinsky Theatre, where she would work for the next quarter a century. In 1900, she earned the title prima ballerina. After the Russian Revolution, Olga #Preobrajenska dedicated her life to teaching new generations of dancers, first in Petrograd, then in Paris from 1918. Every major mid-20th-century Western dancer visited Olga Preobrajenska for lessons. Tamara Toumanova, Margot Fonteyn, Irina Baronova, Gillian Lynne and Vladimir Dokoudovsky were among the many dancers she coached, and through her students, the Preobrajenska method was soon disseminated in some of the top #ballet academies of Europe and New York. The Preobrajenska Method emphasized purity and elegance of movement. Olga Preobrajenska died in France on December 27, 1962 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
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