Tatiana Dokoudovska
Tatiana Dokoudovska was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master of Russian origin.Biography
Tatiana Dokoudovska was born on 13 January 1921 in Beausoleil, France, near Monte Carlo, from Alexis and Nadia Dokoudovsky. His father was the son of a Russian nobleman and the Italian grandfather of her mother Nadia, an opera singer.
A student of Olga Preobrajenska, prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial Theatre, Dokoudovska at the age of 12 started her professional career, dancing in operettas and films. While attending the Ecole des Artes, she danced for the lyric season in Monte Carlo, then was hired as a soloist by the Ballet Russe de l'Opera Comique in Paris.
In 1939 she traveled to the United States and joined the Mordkin Ballet, with which she toured and spent a season in New York City, continuing with the company that would later be called the American Ballet Theatre.
