Nina Alovert

Nina Nikolaevna Alovert (; born 1935) is a ballet photographer and writer. She lives in the United States, following her emigration from the Soviet Union in 1977.

Alovert was the photographer for the 1986 Emmy Award-winning program Wolf Trapp Presents the Kirov Swan Lake. She won an international ballet prize in 2003, the Prix Benois de la Danse "Diploma For Bringing Two Great Cultures Closer Together".

In 1977, Alovert moved to the United States. While in the US, she worked for Dance Magazine and Ballet Review as a freelance photographer. Russian newspapers in the United States, such as Novoe Russkoe Slovo and Novy Amerikanets, featured photographs of ballet taken by Alovert. She has published her photographs in many journals and books in Russia and in other countries, and has held solo shows in New York City, London, St. Petersburg, and other centers. and again in March 2016 at the Museum of Modern Arts in Birobidzhan, capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. On 6 November 2015, she gave a talk, supplemented with her photographs of illustrious Russian ballet dancers and writers, to the students and professors of the theater department of the Far Eastern Arts Academy; she repeated this presentation before a general audience at the city public library.

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As editor