Dancer

Lidija Sotlar

Slovene ballet dancer

Born 1929 · KruševacDied 2018SloveniaSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Lidija Sotlar
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Lidija Sotlar was a dancer, born in 1929 in Kruševac, who died in 2018.

Biography

Lidija Sotlar (née Lipovž; 12 June 1929 – 16 October 2018) was a Serbian-born Slovenian ballerina and teacher who was a member and a soloist of the Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet between 1948 and 1972, performing the role of 80 characters from a wide variety of ballet repertoire. She led the Lidija Sotlar Ballet Group which she established at the Central Ballet School in Ljubljana and passed on her knowledge of ballet to several generations of Slovenian dancers and established the Yugoslav Ballet Artists in 1977 that she led artistically and organisationally until 1983. Sotlar was a 2001 recipient of the Honorary Badge of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia.

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