Директорът на Баварския държавен балет: "Мая Плисецкая е легенда."

Czech-German dancer and director of the Bavarian State Ballet Ivan Liska paid his respects to the late Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Sunday, after her husband, pianist and composer Rodion Shchedrin, announced on Saturday that the dancer had died from a heart attack aged 89. Liska called for everyone to pay their respect to Plisetskaya and praised her unique dancing talents. He described Plisetskaya as striving for a "better future, better dancing, new choreographies, new ideas and enthusiasm for dance". The former ballet dancer turned director said that Plisetskaya was "a legend and will continue to be one". Plisetskaya was a former prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre who retired as a soloist in 1990, at the age of 65. Her definitive role was in The Dying Swan, but she also had lead parts in Swan Lake , Carmen, and The Sleeping Beauty. From the 1990s she split her time between Russia and Europe, working as a choreographer and hosting master classes.