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Lucia Nifontova (Russian: Любовь Андреевна Нифонтова, romanized: Lyubov Andreyevna Nifontova) was born on 30 August, 1913 in Helsinki, Finland, is a ballet dancer. Discover Lucia Nifontova's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Любовь Андреевна Нифонтова |
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Ballet dancer |
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74 years old |
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Virgo |
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30 August, 1913 |
Birthday |
30 August |
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Helsinki, Finland |
Date of death |
(1987-04-06) Helsinki, Finland |
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Helsinki, Finland |
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Finland |
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Lucia Nifontova Height, Weight & Measurements
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Lucia Nifontova Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Lucia Nifontova worth at the age of 74 years old? Lucia Nifontova’s income source is mostly from being a successful ballet dancer. She is from Finland. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In 1945 Nifontova was named the best classical dancer at an international choreography contest organized by Rolf de Maré in Stockholm. In 1955 she was awarded the Pro Finlandia medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, the country’s highest honor for artists. Her name lives on (as of 2020) in the Lucia Nifontova scholarship distributed by Pro Dance [fi] to dance students and teachers.
In 1941 she directed a production of Les Sylphides using choreography she had learned from Fokine. She and Martikainen also taught advanced classes in Fokine’s difficult techniques. Her final performance was in 1947 as Odette in Swan Lake.
In 1938 retired soprano Aino Ackté took over direction of the Finnish National Ballet and Nifontova returned for two seasons, performing the lead roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Onnen linna [fi] and Le Pavillon d'Armide. After that Nifontova danced periodically as a guest artist at the Finnish National Ballet as well as abroad.
In 1938 she married Eero Saurama (1903–1964), a senior official in the National Coalition Party. They had one son, Antti Saurama (1941–2010). She died aged 73 in 1987 at Meilahti Hospital and is buried next to her parents and son in Helsinki Orthodox Cemetery [fi; ru].
During the global depression of the 1930s the Finnish National Ballet suffered great difficulties in paying its artists, and in 1935 Nifontova and Martikainen, along with Gé, Kschessinska and Preobrajenska, left Finland and joined René Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. Nifontova’s coach in the new company was the groundbreaking choreographer Michel Fokine. They performed in Paris, London and South Africa, among other locales.
Dancer and choreographer George Gé [fi; ru] noticed Nifontova’s talent and brought her to the Finnish National Ballet, over which he was the ballet master. There she studied under Gé and other Russian immigrants such as Lyubov Yegorova, Mathilde Kschessinska, Nikolai Legat and Olga Preobrajenska. In 1928 she danced the lead role of Clara in the first performance of The Nutcracker outside Russia. Dancing the role of the Nutcracker Prince was Martikainen, who was to be paired with Nifontova in numerous productions up through the year of his death in 1946. Over the next seven years she danced lead roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Petrushka, Le Spectre de la rose, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Le Bal and Die Puppenfee. She also appeared in a few Finnish films, usually in dancing scenes.
Lucia Nifontova-Saurama (born Russian: Любовь Андреевна Нифонтова, romanized: Lyubov Andreyevna Nifontova; 30 August 1913 – 6 April 1987), better known as Lucia Nifontova, was a Finnish ballet dancer and Finland’s first prima ballerina assoluta. In the 1930s and 40s she and her partner Arvo Martikainen [fi; ru] were the leading dancers in Finland and among the foremost artists in Finnish ballet of all time periods. Her performances of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake were especially noted for their artistic accomplishment and emotional interpretation.
Nifontova was born in Helsinki, then part of the Russian Empire, to Andrei Ivanovich Nifontov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Нифонтов; 1876–1962), a Russian imperial civil servant, and Alexandra Nifontova (née Teresia Emilia Grönros; 1879–1945) of Tuusula. She was called Lucia both at home and in public.