Nadezhda Pavlova

Born in Cheboksary Chuvashskaya ASSR RSFSR USSR Ballerina Honored Artist of the RSFSR 10211977 Peoples Artist of the Chuvashia ASSR 1980 Peoples Artist of the RSFSR 04281982 Peoples Artist of the USSR 12131984 Born into a large family her parents are ethnic Chuvash At the age of 7 she began studying in a choreographic circle at the House of Pioneers In 1966 she was noticed by a commission from the Perm Choreographic School which came to Cheboksary in search of gifted children and Nadya was offered to study in Perm For seven years from the 2nd grade until graduation Nadya Pavlova studied with Lyudmila Pavlovna Sakharova whose methodology combined the Moscow and Leningrad schools of classical dance with new trends that emerged in the late 1960s After graduating from college in 1974 she became a soloist at the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Tchaikovsky Since September 1975 she has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Her constant partner throughout this decade has been Vyacheslav Gordeyev who became her husband She studies daily in Messerers class and masters roles under the guidance of Semenova From 1992 to 1994 Nadezhda Pavlova was the artistic director of the Nadezhda Pavlova Ballet Theater and in 1995 the Renaissance Ballet She was a member of the jury of international ballet competitions in Luxembourg 1995 and Hong Kong 1996 In 1999 she took part in the opening of the Russian Cultural Center in Washington and became a laureate of the Stars of World Ballet festival in Donetsk In 19981999 she performed as a guest star in performances of the Russian Ballet troupe In 2000 she was a teacherrepetiteur at the GITIS ballet theater under the direction of Akhundov Since 2009 choreographerrepetiteur at the State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet under the direction of ND Kasatkina and VYu Teaches at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts RATI professor She is the youngest artist to bear the title of Peoples Artist of the USSR awarded at the age of 28