Plisetskaya

[ pli-set-skah-yuh; Russian plyi-syet-skuh-yuh ]

noun

1. Ma·ya (Mi·khai·lov·na) [mah, -y, uh, myi-, khahy, -l, uh, v-n, uh], 1925–2015, Russian prima ballerina and choreographer: Lithuanian and Spanish citizenships granted in the 1990s.

Example Sentences

As for the 1972 “Anna Karenina” that Maya Plisetskaya choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet, Wheater did not care for its score, by Rodion Shchedrin.

From Washington Post

Performing as Odette-Odile, she won the admiration of Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi’s prima, and other leading Russian dancers.

From New York Times

She vehemently denounced Solzhenitsyn, and banned the Bolshoi Ballet’s version of “Carmen” in 1967 over prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya’s sensual performance and “un-Soviet” costumes that did not cover enough leg.

From Washington Post

But Plisetskaya, whom Khrushchev once called the world’s best dancer, fought back.

From Washington Post

President Underwood might have been pleased at the multitude of sharp-edged trench coats at Gabriela Hearst, who built her collection around imagining the life of Maya Plisetskaya, the Russian ballerina who grew up in a gulag and, as the show notes said, “was a woman of style, resourceful in a scarce environment.”

From New York Times