Yesterday, Sunday, Magda Saleh, the first Egyptian ballerina, passed away after a struggle with illness, and she is considered the first girl to join the first batches of the Ballet Institute, after studying at the Conservatory in Alexandria at a very young age, which established in her artistic career the love of ballet for many girls, even Today, she was even able to be a front for this art throughout the years of her life, and in the next report we review some of her most beautiful pictures.

Snapshots from the march of the late Mahada Saleh, the first ballerina in Egypt

A journey full of giving, art, and love of talent. Shortly after her studies, she joined a scholarship at the Bolshoi in Russia, specifically in Moscow in 1963. After that, her love for ballet began to increase day by day, until three years passed, then she returned to Egypt and presented the first ballet show in her history on Earth. Al-Watan and in the presence of the leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, from whom she received the Order of Merit, then went to the United States to obtain a master’s degree in modern dance from the University of California, and then a doctorate from New York University, on a documenting trip to the history of Egyptian folk dance.

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After that, Magda Saleh returned to the Ballet Institute, but this time not as a student but as a teacher, then as director of the Opera House, which was reopened in 1988. The date of the ceremony was replete with works of art presented by the late Magda Saleh as the first Egyptian ballet dancer inside and outside the country and on the largest theaters in the world, including Theater of the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin and the Bolshoi.

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Magda Saleh

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