VSEVOLODSKAYA-GOLUSHKEVICH Olga Vsevolodovna

Biography

(16.04.1917, Petrograd - 21.12.1993, Moscow) - dancer, actress, theater figure, researcher, teacher-choreographer. Honored Figure of Culture of the RSFSR (1978), Honored Artist of the KazSSR (1988).

She graduated from Leningrad Choreographic School (1938), teacher A.Ya. Vaganova.

1936-1939 - ballet dancer of T.G. Shevchenko Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater; 1939-1943 - ballet dancer at the Mikhailovsky Theater (Leningrad). During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) she took part in the concerts organized by front-line brigades. Since 1944, she began to perform on the stage, was a soloist of the Mosestrada concert association. From 1956 until the end of her life, she was engaged in pedagogical and ballet master activities at K.Stanislavsky and V.Nemirovich-Danchenko MAT School studio. She acted in films and staged dances in drama theaters (the play “Solo for the Chiming Clock”, MAT, 1973), appeared on TV, and was one of the regular authors of the all-Union magazine “Soviet Ballet”.

Since 1973, she began to cooperate with the choreographers of Kazakhstan, in particular with the "Altynay" State Folk dance ensemble. Dances were created for performers T.Izim and U.Makan: “Shalkyma” (music by S.Aliyev); "Kylyshpan-bi" (music by Razdyk); “Ayda-bylpym” (music by A. Baitursynuly), “Aykosak”, “Orteke” and “Baksy” (folk music); duet dances: "Kelinshek" (music by Bayzhigit), "Zhastar bi" (music by Sokyr Yeschan). She staged mass compositions for the ensemble: “Kiiz Basu”, “Kerbez”, “Alka Kotan”, “Bastau”, “Saiys”, “Akat”, etc.

She is the researcher of the Kazakh dance folklore. The result of her exploration and research activities are the fundamental works: "Five Kazakh dances" (1988), "School of Kazakh dance" (1994), "Baksy oiyny" (1996), which are of particular value in the development of the Kazakh dance, its dance vocabulary, learning and cognition methodology.