Legendary Egyptian ballerina Magda Saleh will be honored in New York next month following the screening of two documentaries on Egyptian dance history, according to Egypt Independent. Saleh will feature heavily in one of the documentaries ‘Egypt Dances,’ where she stars and narrates a visual historical record of the various forms of Egyptian dance. Saleh graduated from the Bolshoi Academy of Ballet in Moscow before becoming the prima ballerina of the Cairo Ballet Company in the 1960s, collecting several accolades and awards throughout the years.