Talk:Maya Plisetskaya

message: "Unlike many ballerinas, she did not spend any time in the corps de ballet. She was named principal ballerina immediately after graduation." - contradicts to her memoirs "Me, Maya Plisetskaya" (page 81 in the Russian edition). She did dance in the corps de ballet, but not much. 
"She was Jewish in an anti-Semitic climate, and not allowed to tour with the company in 1956. It wasn't until 1959 that the world got to see Maya Plisetskaya, ..." Do you imply that before 1956 and after 1959 the "anti-Semitic climate" did not exist? By explaining her conflicts with the Bolshoi management by her Jewish origin you oversimplify the situation. In fact, only those who imposed the ban on her going abroad in 1956 know the reasons why the ban was imposed. Plisetskaya herself does not know exactly who they were – KGB, Ministry of Culture or the Bolshoi management. By the way, in the same year, not in 1958 "she was honoured with the title of the People's Artist of the USSR" and this honorary title (and her other awards) does not accord with "She was Jewish in an anti-Semitic climate."
"married the young composer Rodion Shchedrin, whose subsequent fame she shared." – it is debatable. Shchedrin has never been as famous as Plisetskaya. -- Ludmilasv 09:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: Please, can the people who edited the article add the missing sources? --> "She was forced[citation needed] to be a member of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public by being threatened with having her passport revoked.[citation needed] " thnx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.127.84.183 (talk) 01:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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message: In the "Style" section, there is a description of her stage performance for "Bolero." I think that this image or this one, from the government of Australia, would be a good non-free addition to that section. Any volunteers? --Light show (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
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message: Mention of the relevance of her religion to her career is being deleted, with a rationale such as this one: Unsourced allegation of antisemitism prior to the 50s, whereas in reality Jews were overrepresented in the arts during the early and middle periods of the Soviet Union. Support for the rationale is See Prof. Yuri Slezkine's sourced entry here on Wikipedia. 
In fact, Slezkine's book has nearly 50 pages covering antisemitism in the Soviet Union. However, the article doesn't mention "antisemitism," but simply notes that Jews, who were a minority (4% per Slezkine), were not/never treated as equals and were discriminated against. The fact that they were overrepresented in the arts does not mean discrimination didn't exist. Tim Scholl, who wrote the foreward to her autobiography, noted that every time she travelled, she had to fill out a form "declaring her Jewish nationality, another reproach to the Party." In her book, she heard rumors that Stalin "intended to resettle the entire Jewish tribe" to its far east. "What lay ahead for me?", she asked.(p. 128) But being treated as a minority "tribe" or religion doesn't automatically equate to antisemitism.
For example, Marc Chagall's life was also impacted by being Jewish. He wasn't even allowed to go to a non-Jewish school. He then moved to France. But he didn't describe being a victim of antisemitism - quite the contrary, as the article includes one of his speeches:
The relevance of her religion to her career is noted in the article, and it would be wrong and inaccurate to simply ignore it. Light show (talk) 03:32, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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message: "Since 1994, she has presided over the annual international ballet competitions, called Maya. And in 1996 she was named President of the Imperial Russian Ballet.[37]
"She was ballet director of the Rome Opera (1983–84), and artistic director of Ballet del Teatro Lirico Nacional in Madrid (1987–90). Beginning in 1994, she presided over the annual international ballet competition in Saint Petersburg, called Maya. In 1996 she was named the President of the Imperial Russian Ballet, Moscow private dance company."--Manfariel (talk) 13:58, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
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