Ballet “Raymonda” Photo Kaleria Fedicheva & G. Selyutsky NY 1960s

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Ballet “Raymonda” Original Press Photo
Kaleria Fedicheva and G. Selyutsky in the ballet
“Raymonda”
The Leningrad Kirov Ballet in NY
Signed in English and Russian
Size: 19 x 28 cm. (7.4 x 11”)
Condition: several cracks to edges
Kaleria Fedicheva (1936—1994)
Soviet dancer. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School, graduating in 1955 into the Kirov Ballet. She was best known for her modern repertory and created roles in several ballets, including Belsky's Leningrad Symphony (second premiere, 1961), K. Sergeyev's The Distant Planet (1963), and Hamlet (1970), and Vinogradov's Prince of the Pagodas (1972). In 1975 she left the USSR to join her American husband, dancer Martin Freedman, and in the same year staged the pas d'action from Act II of La Bayadere for US Terpsichore.
Gennady Selyutsky
, Ballet master, born
23 December 1936
, Petrozavodsk
, USSR