Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï trained in classical dance and was a resident student at the Bolshoi Theater School in Moscow (1965-1967).[4] Her thesis on African women in the Roman era from epigraphic sources (La femme en Afrique à l'époque romaine: À partir de la documentation épigraphique) received an award in 1977 from the University of Provence.[5]