Alla Lagoda

Biography

Alla Vyacheslavovna Lagoda was born on February 6, 1937 in Kiev. In 1955, she graduated from the Kiev Choreographic School. Her teachers were G. A. Berezova, A. V. Yarygin and others. In 198,1 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Theater Arts (now the Russian Institute of Theater Arts – GITIS). Having been injured in her youth, she went to study at a university where she studied English. But, since she quickly recovered, she returned to the stage.

In 1955-1981, she performed with a short break as a soloist of the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater (now the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine). With colleagues from the National Opera she performed in Paris, Monte Carlo, and others. In 1963-1964, she was a soloist in the ballet of the Georgian Opera and Ballet Theater. Z. Paliashvili.

From 1981 to 1992, she worked as the head of the ballet troupe of the theater, since 1992 she is a teacher-choreographer of the ballet troupe of the National Opera of Ukraine. Among her students are laureates and prize-winners of international competitions of ballet dancers performing on stages in Covent Garden (London), the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Dresden Opera, the American Ballet Theater and other troupes.

Parties

Alla Vyacheslavovna Lagoda at different times performed in the roles: Akulina – “Forest Song” by Skorulsky; Marina – “Poem about the Marina” by Yarovinsky; Aegina, Mehmene Banu; Kilina (“Forest Song” by Skorulsky); Carmen – “Carmen Suite” Bizet-R. K. Shchedrin; Golden Woman – “Symphonic Dances” to the music of S. V. Rachmaninov and others.

Awards and titles

People’s Artist of the USSR (1974)

Cavalier of the International Order of St. Stanislav IV degree (2004)

Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Prize “Woman of the III Millennium” in the nomination “Significant Figure” (2006).

Laureate of the Asaf Messerer Prize “To the best teacher of the competition named after S. Diaghilev

Cavalier of the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree (2017).

Notable students

Alexei Ratmansky

Irina Dvorovenko

Alina Kojacaru

Denis Matvienko

Leonid Sarafanov

Iana Salenko

Viktor Ischuk

Natalia De Froberville 

Katerina Khaniukova

Olesya Shaitanova

Tetiana Golyakova

Sinobu Takita