Lutfi Zohidova
{{Short description|Soviet and Tajik ballet dance}}
{{Infobox person
| native_name = Лутфи Зоҳидова
| native_name_lang = tg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|11|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Konibodom, Tajik ASSR, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|10|10|1925|11|06|df=yes}}
| occupation = Ballet dancer
| organization = Tajik Ballet
}}
Lutfi Zohidova ({{langx|tg|Лутфи Зоҳидова}}, {{langx|ru|Лютфи́ Захи́дова}}; 6 November 1925 {{endash}} 10 October 1995) was a Soviet and Tajik ballet dancer.
Biography
Zohidova was born in Konibodom, Tajik ASSR, and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1957. She studied at the Dushanbe Women's Pedagogical Institute, and from 1939 until 1941 was a member of the Union of Workers Ensemble in Moscow; in the latter year she was accepted as a member of the Tajik Ballet. Her debut with the company came in La fille mal gardée by Peter Ludwig Hertel, and she performed as a soloist at the theater throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Among the most notable roles which she essayed during her career were Maria in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Boris Asafyev; Odette in Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Layla in Layla and Majnun by Sergey Balasanian; and the title roles in Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev; La Esmeralda by Cesare Pugni, and Dilbar by Alexander Lensky. She also directed the Dushanbe School of Choreography for a time. She toured with the company in June 1961, and shortly thereafter, retired from the ballet and became an instructor.{{cite web|url=http://fayllar.org/p-rominent-t-ajik-f-igures-of-the.html?page=44|title=Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century|website=fayllar.org|accessdate=10 November 2017}}
Awards and honors
- Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1949) – for her portrayal of Layla in the ballet play Layla and Majnun by Sergey Balasanian
- People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (1949)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1954)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1957)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References
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Category:People from Konibodom
Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Category:Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Category:Tajikistani ballet dancers
Category:Soviet female dancers
Category:20th-century ballet dancers
Category:People's Artists of the USSR
Category:People's Artists of the Tajik SSR
Category:Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
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