About Galina Samsova
Galina Samsova was a Russian ballet dancer and company director. The pair won the gold medal at Il Festival de la Opera, Madrid, for their performance of Giselle. Making her western European debut in the role, which she danced almost every day for a month, Samsova won the festival's gold medal for a performance by a female dancer (Rudolf Nureyev won the gold medal for a male dancer). Samsova joined London Festival Ballet as a guest artist in 1964 but soon became a permanent member of the company, serving as its principal ballerina for nearly a decade, until 1973.
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