[3] She spent some of her early years in Petrograd, and her family emigrated from the post-revolutionary Russia to Paris by horse-drawn sledge via the frozen Gulf of Finland when she was young.
Lidova persuaded Vu's editor to publish a feature on the ballerina and Nicholas II mistress Mathilde Kschessinska.
[2] She was also invited to edit the new publication called France Magazine whilst continuing to study dance at the amateur level.
[1][4] The success of these concerts meant Lidova was invited to organise a series of ten dance evenings, introducing Jean Babilée, Zizi Jeanmaire, Ethery Pagava and Nina Vyroubova.
[4][5] She served as the ballet's general secretary,[4] and worked at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where she devised Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe for Petit.
[2][3] Lidova helped Gene Kelly in the casting of the film Invitation to the Dance and was an advisor to multiple opera houses putting on ballets, such as La Fenice putting on productions by Serge Lifar and Bronislava Nijinska and Callas in The Sicilian Vespers opening the new Turin Opera.
[2] She consulted in the suggestion of artists and ballets to the Nervi Festival director Mario Porcile in Italy and oversaw logistics.
Lidova was the organiser of a series of programmes at La Fenice in Venice in 1971 and persuaded the ageing Bronislava Nijinska to revive Les Noces.