Nina Popova

Nina Popova was a Russian-American ballet dancer. She was born in Novorossiysk, Russia, but her family left for Paris shortly after her birth. She studied ballet with other Russian émigrés and, as a teenager, performed with Lyubov Yegorova's Ballet de la Jeunesse. In the late 1930s she performed with the Original Ballet Russe in Australia and Cuba. In 1939, she joined the Ballet Theatre, now called the American Ballet Theatre, in New York. Popova danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1943 to 1945. She performed on the television program Your Show of Shows and on Broadway.