Nesta Toumine (October 28, 1912 – February 1, 1996[1]) was a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and teacher in Canada.
She studied ballet in Ottawa, New York City, with Nikolai Legat, Serafina Astafieva and Margaret Craske in London, in Paris and with Julia Sedova in Nice.
The couple settled in New York but moved to Ottawa after the birth of their sons, Peter and Lorne.
With Yolande Leduc, Toumine founded the Ottawa Ballet Company in 1947.
[5][6] The Society of Russian Ballet established the Nesta Toumine Memorial Award in 1996.