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Budo Silva (1910-1992)

Personal data
SurnameBudo
NameSilva
Birth year1910
Birth month9
Birth day21
Birth placeRiga
Death year1992
Death month3
Death day1
Death placeRiga
SexF

Budo (née Rozenberg) Silva (21 September 1910, Riga – 1 March 1992, Riga) — dancer, dance teacher.

Silva Budo studied in Austria and graduated from the Academy of Dance. Upon returning to Latvia, she opened a ballet school, which quickly gained a prestigious reputation.

In 1941, she was evacuated with her family to Kyrgyzstan.

From 1941 to 1945, she worked as a ballet master and director at the Kyrgyz Philharmonic, served as a therapeutic exercise instructor in an evacuation hospital, and staged ballet productions at the Krupskaya Drama Theatre in Frunze.

In 1945, she returned to Riga, where she worked at the State Puppet Theatre, taught at the Theatre Institute, and founded a renowned amateur dance ensemble at the Central Builders’ Club, which toured throughout Latvia and abroad.