Nuriya Nagimova was born in 1983 in Russia. She was awarded an Irina Sirova high school diploma with highest honors at the Moscow Ballet School. She joined the Bolshoi Theatre in 2001. As part of the corps de ballet, she danced in Raymonda, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Pakhita, Cinderella, In the Upper Room and The Lost Illusion. In 2009, she was one of ten dancers from the Bolshoi selected by Angelin Preljocaj to participate with Ballet Preljocaj in the creation And then, one thousand years of peace. She joined Ballet Preljocaj in 2011.
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