Sylphide from Odessa: Nina Stoyan

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1986.

A film about the work of the soloist of the Odessa Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Nina Stoyan.

On the video: off-screen interview with Nina Stoyan, telling about her creative path; various fragments of dance performances; Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, various shots.

Dance program with the participation of soloists of the Odessa Academic Opera and Ballet Theater Nina Stoyan, Mikhail Petukhov, Sabirzhan Yapparov and the leading soloist of the “moscow Classical Ballet” Stanislav Isaev.

Reference: Nina Stoyan is a famous Ukrainian ballerina, laureate of republican and all-Ukrainian competitions of ballet dancers (1978, 1979), awarded the regional prize named after Eduard Bagrytsky (1980) and the medal “For Friendship” in Vietnam (1980). A graduate of the Kyiv Choreographic School (1971) and the International Slavic University (2006), she has performed on the stage of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater for over 25 years, performing leading roles in over 40 ballets. Among her most striking roles are Kitri in “Don Quixote”, Giselle, Sylphide and Lisa from “Les Premonitions in Vain”. Since 1996 she has been actively engaged in teaching.