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Soviet dance historian (1907–1977) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovna and the family name is René.
Natalia Roslavleva
Born1907 Edit this on Wikidata
Moscow Edit this on Wikidata
Died1977 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 69–70)
Moscow Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationHistorian, critic, translator, theatre critic, theatrologist Edit this on Wikidata

Natalia Petrovna Roslavleva was the pseudonym of Natalia Petrovna René (1907–1977), a Soviet dance historian and critic.

Life

Natalia René was born in 1907 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She attended the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts in Moscow.

Writing for the journal Ballet Today in the 1940s, she chose the name Natalia Roslavleva in hommage to the Russian dancer Lyubov Roslavleva (1874–1904).

Roslavleva died of cancer in Moscow on January 3, 1977.

Works

  • The "Beryozka" State Dance Company. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1960.
  • Stanislavski and the ballet. New York: Dance Perspectives, 1965.
  • Era of the Russian Ballet 1770–1965. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966.
  • Prechistenka 20: the Isadora Duncan School in Moscow. New York: Dance Perspectives, 1975

References

  1. ^ Room, Adrian (2014). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (5th ed.). McFarland. p. 415. ISBN 9780786457632.
  2. ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2006). "Roslavleva, Natalia (1907–1977)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.


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