About Nina Sorokina
Lived 1942 – 2011 (aged 69). Nina Sorokina was a Russian ballet dancer, ballerina and ballet teacher.
Nina Sorokina (; 13 May 1942 – 8 October 2011) was a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a 1987 People's Artist of the USSR recipient.
Biography Sorokina was born on 13 May 1942 in Elektrostal. She studied in the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (the Bolshoi Ballet academy) under the guidance of Sofia Golovkina. With a pas de deux from Esmeralda, the couple achieved the gold medal at the first International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 1969, when Mikhail Baryshnikov won as soloist.
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Who was Nina Sorokina?
Russian ballet dancer (1942–2011)
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Nina Sorokina was born on 13 May 1942 in Elektrostal.
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Nina Sorokina died on 8 October 2011 in Moscow.
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Nina Sorokina was a ballet dancer, ballerina and ballet teacher.
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Nina Sorokina was Russian.
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