Madina Aliyeva

Madina Aliyeva (Mədinə Vaqif qızı Əliyeva) is a ballerina, ballet choreographer, ballet-master, People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2002), personal grant-holder of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2008). "Golden Dervish" and "Zirva" award laureate.

Biography
Madina Aliyeva was born on May 4, 1965 in Baku. She has been engaged in music since childhood. In 1983, she graduated from the Baku Choreographic College, and in 1985-1986 she completed an internship at the Moscow Choreographic College. Since 1983, Medina Aliyeva has been a soloist, a leading ballerina and the head of the ballet troupe of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

She was conferred as the Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan for Achievements in the Performing Arts (February 26, 1993) and People's Artist (December 24, 2002).

Activity
In 1999 she performed the character of the maiden, Gulyanag at the Maiden Tower (ballet) by Afrasiyab Badalbeyli. In 2012, she constructed the dance at the opera "Così fan tutte" (Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, staged in the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

In 2014, she was a ballet-maker of the ballet "One Thousand and One Nights" by Fikret Amirov, who was staged in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.