Gamar Almaszadeh

[2] After graduating from the choreographic school in 1930, Gamar Almaszadeh began working at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

In 1932, she left for Moscow to continue her ballet education but soon returned to Baku after being chosen to perform a secondary role in Reinhold Glière's opera Shakh-Senem.

[2] In 1933, she was admitted to a professional ballet school in Saint Petersburg, where she had Maria Romanova-Ulanova (mother of the world-famous ballerina Galina Ulanova) as an instructor.

Guided by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, she organized research expeditions to various parts of Azerbaijan to film and document folk dance performances and to enrich the repertoire of her ensemble as well as to propagate them on the big scene.

[2] In 1939, she taught her first choreography class and in 1940, made her first biggest performance in the lead role of Afrasiyab Badalbeyli's Giz Galasi ("The Maiden Tower").