"Russian dancers" redirects here. For the series of pastels also known as Russian dancers, see Ukrainian dancers.
This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and performed there for a significant portion of their careers.
The original purpose of the ballet in Russia was to entertain the royal court. The first ballet company was the Imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg in the 1740s. The Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded in the 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev, an enormously important figure in the Russian ballet scene. Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes' travels abroad profoundly influenced the development of dance worldwide.[1] The headquarters of his ballet company was located in Paris, France. A protégé of Diaghilev, George Balanchine, founded the New York City Ballet Company.
During the early 20th century, many Russian ballet dancers rose to fame. Soviet ballet preserved the perfected 19th century traditions,[2] and the Soviet Union's choreography schools produced one internationally famous star after another. The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg remain famous throughout the world.[3]
George Balanchine (1904–1983) Russian Empire Soviet Union France United States (Georgian descent) Choreographer, balletmaster
Balanchine was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a balletmaster of the Ballets Russes in France, founding balletmaster (and co-founder) of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical forms and techniques.
Irina Baronova (1919–2008) Soviet Union Romania France United States Switzerland Russian Federation Australia Ballerina, ballet mistress
She was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935). Between 1940 and 1951 Baronova appeared in several films, and worked as ballet mistress for the 1980 film Nijinsky.
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962. His staging of Sergey Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (1957) and of The Legend of Love [ru] (1961) brought him acclaim as a choreographer. In 1964 he moved to the Bolshoi Theatre, where he would work as an Artistic director until 1995. His most famous productions at the Bolshoi were "The Legend of Love" (1965, 2002), The Nutcracker (1966), Spartacus (1967), Ivan the Terrible (ballet) [ru] (1975), The Golden Age (1982, 1994, 2006). Other notable productions The Sleeping Beauty (1963, 1973, 2011), Swan Lake (1969, 2001), Romeo and Juliet (1979, 2010), Raymonda (1984, 2003), Giselle (1987), La Bayadère (1991), Don Quixote (1994), Le Corsaire (1994). Сhoreographed for various Russian companies before settling in Krasnodar, where he set up his own company. Grigorovich has been heading the juries of numerous international competitions in classical ballet. After the death of his wife, the great ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova, on 19 February 2008, he has been offered the opportunity to return to the Bolshoi again in the capacity of ballet master and choreographer.
Marina Kondratyeva [ru] as Giselle and Maris Liepa as Albrecht in a scene from Act 1 of Adolphe Charles Adam's ballet Giselle staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 January 1972
Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown. Maximova was coached by the legendary ballerina Galina Ulanova. Her greatest successes were the roles of Kitri in Don Quixote, Clara (called Maria in the Bolshoi production) in The Nutcracker, and the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella. Maximova performed with the Bolshoi Ballet from 1958 until 1980, often performing opposite her husband Vladimir Vasiliev. She and her husband gained wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli's filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1983). When the Bolshoi Ballet toured to the United States for the first time in 1959, Maximova also performed as a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles in The Stone Flower and other ballets. Following her career as a dancer, Maximova was a coach with the ballet and a member of the GITIS Institute faculty. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Galina Stepanenko, Svetlana Lunkina, Marianna Ryzhkina, Anna Nikulina were among her adepts.
Awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for best dancer in the world in 1988. Defected to the West in 1990. Settled in the United Kingdom where he performed in leading roles before taking up choreography.
Vladimir Muravlev (born 1974) Uzbekistan Russia Principal Dancer, Moscow Classical Ballet
Olga Sapphire (1907–1981) Russian Empire Japan Danseur, Teacher, Nihon Gekijō (Tokyo)
Olga Ivanovna Pavlova trained at both the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute and Moscow Choreographic School and performed throughout Russia until her marriage in the early 1930s to a Japanese diplomat. Moving to Japan in 1936, she was influential in establishing ballet in Japan.[4]
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was born in Saint-Petersburg. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. She worked in the Kirov Ballet until 1930, transferred to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Semyonova was guest with the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1935 where she danced Giselle with Serge Lifar. She received the Stalin Prize for 1941 and retired in 1952. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Natalia Bessmertnova, Marina Kondratieva [ru], Nadezhda Pavlova, Nina Sorokina, Ludmila Semenyaka, Nina Timofeeva, Nina Ananiashvili, Galina Stepanenko and Nikolay Tsiskaridze were among her adepts. In 2003, she won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement. Semyonova retired from her coaching duties at the age of 96, died on 9 June 2010 in her home in Moscow, three days before her 102nd birthday.
Liudmila Titova (Russian: Людмила Титова)[5] was born 9 October 1987 in Moscow, Russia, and has been called the "one of the most celebrated ballet dancer and ballet teacher in the world."[6] Born in Moscow, Russia, Liudmila Titova started dancing at the age of seven years based on recommendation from her doctor to help with a problem with her back.[7] She joined the school's dance club and found herself dancing every day. At the age of 10, she took a three-day examination and physical and was only seven out of 105 applicants admitted into the Bolshoi Academy of Ballet,[8] also known as the Moscow State Academy of Choreography,[7] where her area of study became, "Theatre of Classical Ballet" by Smirnov-Golovanov. For the next eight years, Titova trained eight hours per day, six days per week. After graduating the world-renown, prestigious Bolshoi Academy of Ballet, Liudmila Titova went to work for the Royal Moscow Ballet Company. The Royal Moscow Ballet Company is located in Moscow, Russia, so Liudmila Titova was able to stay in her native Moscow. At the early age just 19, Liudmila was given leading a role in one of the world's most coveted plays, "Cinderella".[9] This unimaginable feat is unheard of in the Ballet realm, where leading roles are generally earned by ballet dancers after many years or performances, usually after the age of 25. Liudmila was such a success, she went on to be the lead in other famous plays, such as "The Nutcracker," "Don Quixote," "Giselle," "Bolero," "Carmen," "Romeo and Juliet," "Sleeping Beauty," "Swan Lake," and "The Time."
In 2014, at the age of 26, Liudmila Titova was promoted to the position of the General Director of the Royal Moscow Ballet.
Nikolay Tsiskaridze, also spelled Ziskaridze, one of the most decorated Russian dancers, was a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years. Ethnically Georgian, he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991. In 1992 Tsiskaridze joined the ballet company of the Bolshoi Theater. The then artistic director Yuri Grigorovich saw Nikolai at the graduation exam. At the theater he had the good fortune to enter the class of prominent ballerina Marina Semyonova, and as Nikolai says, became his second mother. The legendary Galina Ulanova also assisted him. Over the course of his dance career he performed more than 70 roles in major classical works. One of the best ballet princes, he is equally convincing in modern choreographies. Roland Petit, who staged "La Dame de Pique" in 2001, created the role of Hermann especially for Tsiskaridze. In 1996, he graduated from the Teacher Training Department of the Moscow Ballet Academy and since 2003 had been teaching a daily ballet class at the Bolshoi Theatre combining his dance career with coaching. Besides, since 2004 he had been also teaching at the Moscow Ballet Academy. He became the youngest person to be named a People's Artist of Russia (2001). He received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 and 2003 and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1999. During his career he received many honours - Silver medal at the Osaka Ballet Competition (1995), Golden medal at the Moscow Ballet Competition (1997), Honoured Artist of Russia (1997), Russian Golden Mask theatrical prize (1998, 2000, 2003),Benois de la Danse (1999), Order of Honour of the Republic of Georgia (2003), Danza&Danza award as best dancer of the year 2003, Triumph prize (2004), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française (2006), People's Artist of North Osetia —Alania Republic (2013). In 2014, Tsiskaridze graduated as a Master of Law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University. On 29 Nov 2014 Tsiskaridze was elected as Rector of Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, est. in 1738.
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s. It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus. Her Fundamentals of the Classical Dance (1934) remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique. Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today. Among Vaganova's dance alumnae were the distinguished Soviet ballerinas Marina Semenova, Olga Jordan [ru], Galina Ulanova, Tatiana Vecheslova [ru], Feya Balabina [ru], Natalia Dudinskaya, Alla Shelest, Nonna Yastrebova [ru], Olga Moiseeva [ru], Ludmilla Safronova [ru], Ninel Kurgapkina, Alla Osipenko and Irina Kolpakova. Shortly after her death, on 1 November 1957, the Choreographic College on Rossi street was renamed in her honor; in 1961, it received the title of "academic" and in 1991 it began to use the name Agrippina Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
Agrippina Vaganova in "La Esmeralda". St. Petersburg, circa 1910.
Ivan Vasiliev (born 1989) Russian Federation Danseur
Ivan Vasiliev in an extract from Spartacus, at the October 2011 re-opening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre
Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev a Russian ballet dancer, was premier dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns, graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1958 (his teachers included Aleksey Yermolayev) and joined the Bolshoi Ballet. He became a premier dancer who made enormous contributions to the development of classical male dance; he came to embody the strong new Bolshoi male. He was the first dancer to be given the award la médaille d’or du meilleur danseur du Monde ("The Gold Medal of the World’s Best Dancer"); subsequently Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patrick Dupond were also awarded the distinction. Russia's influential ballet critic and choreographer Fyodor Lopukhov called him "God of the dance … A miracle in art, perfection". Numerous roles were created for him, and he performed throughout the world, usually partnering his wife, Bolshoi prima ballerina Ekaterina Maximova. Among the most notable were those created by Yuri Grigorovich, who gave him the principal roles in his original productions of Spartacus, The Nutcracker, Ivan the Terrible. Nonetheless, he and Maximova gleaned wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli's filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1983). Both performed in Spanish costume (Vasiliev as a matador) in the divertissements composed for the equivalent of Act II, scene 2. Besides Maximova, Vasiliev's famous partners included: Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, Alicia Alonso, Carla Fracci, Rita Poelvoorde and Ambra Vallo.
Stella Voskovetskaya, Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet graduate, Founder and Artistic Director of Illinois Classical Ballet. created a unique and very effective system of training where she blended elements of training from Vaganova ballet school, where the training program for children is truly unique and was tested for centuries and unusually effective system barre au sol developed by Boris Knyazev
That program significantly speed up and improve the training of young ballet dancers, helped with correcting posture, turnout in all three positions, flexibility and balance
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Russian dancers redirects here For the series of pastels also known as Russian dancers see Ukrainian dancers This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire Soviet Union and Russian Federation including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigrated and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and performed there for a significant portion of their careers Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Pavel Gerdt in La Bayadere ballet by the ballet master Marius Petipa and the composer Ludwig Minkus 1900The original purpose of the ballet in Russia was to entertain the royal court The first ballet company was the Imperial School of Ballet in St Petersburg in the 1740s The Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded in the 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev an enormously important figure in the Russian ballet scene Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes travels abroad profoundly influenced the development of dance worldwide 1 The headquarters of his ballet company was located in Paris France A protege of Diaghilev George Balanchine founded the New York City Ballet Company During the early 20th century many Russian ballet dancers rose to fame Soviet ballet preserved the perfected 19th century traditions 2 and the Soviet Union s choreography schools produced one internationally famous star after another The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg remain famous throughout the world 3 For the full plainlist of Russian ballet dancers on Wikipedia see the Category Russian ballet dancers Alphabetical list editContents Top 0 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageAnastasia Abramova 1902 1985 Russian EmpireSoviet Unionballerina Bolshoi TheatreSvetlana Adyrkhaeva born 1938 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Boris Akimov ru born 1946 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Danseur Bolshoi TheatreMaria Alexandrova born 1978 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Maria Alexandrova as Kitri in Don Quixote Bolshoi Theatre 22 June 2011Maria Allash born 1976 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Elena Andreianova 1819 1857 Russian Empire Prima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre Mariinsky BalletYelena Andrienko born 1972 Soviet UnionRussian Federationballerina Bolshoi TheatreValery Viktorovich Anisimov ru born 1953 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur Bolshoi Theatre TeacherAnna Antonicheva born 1973 Soviet UnionRussian Federationballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Altynai Asylmuratova born 1961 Soviet UnionRussian Federation KazakhstanPrima ballerina Mariinsky TheatreZhanna Ayupova ru born 1966 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Mariinsky TheatreB edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageFeya Balabina ru 1910 1982 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionBallerina Teacher Ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Mikhaylovsky Theatre Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet nbsp George Balanchine 1904 1983 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionFranceUnited States Georgian descent Choreographer balletmaster Balanchine was one of the 20th century s foremost choreographers a balletmaster of the Ballets Russes in France founding balletmaster and co founder of New York City Ballet his work created modern ballet based on his deep knowledge of classical forms and techniques nbsp Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell in Don Quixote nbsp Irina Baronova 1919 2008 Soviet UnionRomaniaFranceUnited StatesSwitzerlandRussian FederationAustraliaBallerina ballet mistress She was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s She created roles in Leonide Massine s Le Beau Danube 1924 Jeux d enfants 1932 and Les Presages 1933 and in Bronislava Nijinska s Les Cent Baisers 1935 Between 1940 and 1951 Baronova appeared in several films and worked as ballet mistress for the 1980 film Nijinsky nbsp A photo with Baronova s autograph nbsp Mikhail Baryshnikov born 1948 Soviet UnionUnited States Danseur nbsp Mikhail Baryshnikov with Patricia McBride in Le baiser de la feeDmitry Belogolovtsev born 1973 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Dmitri Belogolovtsev as Abderahman Raymonda Bolshoi Theatre 2010Natalia Bessmertnova 1941 2008 Soviet Union Russian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp A scene from ballet Giselle Natalia Bessmertnova as Giselle Alexander Bogatyrev ru 1949 1998 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Bolshoi TheatreZhanna Bogoroditskaya ru born 1969 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Ballerina Stanislavski and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre nbsp Violetta Bovt 1927 1995 United StatesSoviet UnionBallerina Stanislavski and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre nbsp Violetta Bovt and Arkady Nikolaev 1965Nikolai Boyarchikov ru born 1935 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Ballet master Mikhaylovsky TheatreBoris Bregvadze ru 1926 2012 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Teacher Mariinsky TheatreDmitri Bryantsev ru 1947 2004 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Ballet master Stanislavski and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Academic Music TheatreYuri Burlaka ru born 1968 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Ballet master Teacher Moscow State Academy of Choreography Bolshoi TheatreVladimir Bourmeister 1904 1971 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Ballet master Stanislavski and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Academic Music TheatreC edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageRaissa Calza 1894 1979 Russian EmpireUkraineVakhtang Chabukiani 1910 1992 Soviet UnionDanseur Choreographer Ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre nbsp Catherine Chislova 1846 1889 Russian EmpireBallerina nbsp Catherine Chislova c 1865D edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageAlexandra Danilova 1903 1997 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionFranceUnited StatesPrima ballerina nbsp Danilova as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre 1948Pavel Dmitrichenko born 1984 Russia Former principal dancer Bolshoi BalletNatalia Dudinskaya 1912 2003 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky TheatreE edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Lubov Egorova 1880 1972 Russian EmpireFrance Ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Lubov Egorova in the title role of the choreographer Marius Petipa s and the composer Cesare Pugni s ballet The Blue Dahlia 1905Olga Esina born 1986 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Ballerina Olga Esina in Russian Olga Esina is a Russian ballerina who was educated at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St Petersburg In 2010 she became First Solo Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet nbsp Olga Esina and Roman Lazik Donauwalzer Belvedere Vienna 1 January 2012F edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageNikolai Fadeyechev born 1933 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDancer Teacher Bolshoi Theater Nikolai Fadeyechev was born in Moscow was a Soviet Russian dancer ballet was dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1952 and joined the Bolshoi Theatre danced many principal roles He danced alongside some of the great ballerinas such as Galina Ulanova in Giselle and Les Sylphides was a regular partner with Maya Plisetskaya Raisa Struchkova Nina Timofeeva Marina Kondratyeva ru Natalia Bessmertnova Ekaterina Maximova Ludmila Semenyaka After that he became one of the most important teachers and repetiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre Nikolay Tsiskaridze Andrey Uvarov ru Sergei Filin Artem Ovcharenko were among her adepts nbsp Nikolai Fadeyechev in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky s ballet Swan Lake staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 January 1956 nbsp Sergei Filin born 1970 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDancer Artistic Director Bolshoi Theater nbsp Mikhail Fokine 1880 1942 Russian EmpireUnited States Danseur nbsp Mikhail Fokine as the hussar in Halte de Cavelerie Saint Petersburg c 1900G edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageValentina Ganibalova ru born 1948 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Yekaterina Geltzer 1876 1962 Russian EmpireSoviet Union Prima ballerina Bolshoi TheatreElizaveta Gerdt 1891 1975 Russian EmpireSoviet Union Ballerina nbsp Elizaveta Gerdt Elsa Vill and Pierre Vladimirov in the Paquita Pas de Trois 1905 nbsp Pavel Gerdt 1844 1917 Russian Empire Premier Danseur Noble nbsp Pavel Gerdt as Pepito in The King s Command or The Pupils of Dupre nbsp Adelaide Giuri ru 1872 1963 ItalyRussian EmpireSoviet UnionBallerina Bolshoi Theatre La Scala nbsp Adelaide Giuri ru as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Alexander Gorsky s staging of the Petipa Ivanov Swan Lake for the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow 1901 A young Vera Karalli is seen kneeling Alexander Godunov 1949 1995 Soviet UnionUnited States Danseur nbsp Kasyan Goleizovsky 1892 1970 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Choreographer Ballet master Bolshoi TheatreSofia Golovkina 1915 2004 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Teacher Ballet master Moscow State Academy of Choreography Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Alexander Gorsky 1871 1924 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Ballets by Alexander Gorsky In Philately Gudule s Daughter a revision of the La Esmeralda 1902 Salammbo 1910 Don Quixote 1900 Giselle 1907 La Bayadere 1917 Nadezhda Gracheva born 1969 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp A scene from Raymonda Nadezhda Gracheva as Raymonda Bolshoi Theatre 2010 nbsp Yury Grigorovich born 1927 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Danseur Choreographer Ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962 His staging of Sergey Prokofiev s The Stone Flower 1957 and of The Legend of Love ru 1961 brought him acclaim as a choreographer In 1964 he moved to the Bolshoi Theatre where he would work as an Artistic director until 1995 His most famous productions at the Bolshoi were The Legend of Love 1965 2002 The Nutcracker 1966 Spartacus 1967 Ivan the Terrible ballet ru 1975 The Golden Age 1982 1994 2006 Other notable productions The Sleeping Beauty 1963 1973 2011 Swan Lake 1969 2001 Romeo and Juliet 1979 2010 Raymonda 1984 2003 Giselle 1987 La Bayadere 1991 Don Quixote 1994 Le Corsaire 1994 Shoreographed for various Russian companies before settling in Krasnodar where he set up his own company Grigorovich has been heading the juries of numerous international competitions in classical ballet After the death of his wife the great ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova on 19 February 2008 he has been offered the opportunity to return to the Bolshoi again in the capacity of ballet master and choreographer Dmitry Gudanov born 1975 Soviet UnionRussian Federation Danseur Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Dmitry Gudanov as Albrecht in Giselle Bolshoi Theatre 21 January 2011I edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Avdotia Istomina 1799 1848 Russian EmpirePrima ballerina nbsp Lev Ivanov 1834 1901 Russian EmpireDanseur choreographer ballet master Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Lev Ivanov costumed as Solor for Act I of La Bayadere St Petersburg 1877 K edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Viktorina Kapitonova born 1985 Russian FederationSwitzerlandPrima ballerina nbsp Vera Karalli 1889 1972 Russian EmpireWeimar RepublicNazi GermanyAustriaSoviet UnionBallerina actress nbsp Russian ballerina Vera Karalli 1910s nbsp Tatiana Karpakova ru 1812 1842 Russian EmpireBallerina Bolshoi Theater nbsp Tamara Karsavina 1885 1978 Russian EmpireUnited KingdomPrima ballerina nbsp Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina c 1912 Nora Kiss 1908 1993 Russian Empireballerina ballet teacher in ParisIrina Kolpakova born 1933 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Evgenia Kolosova 1780 1869 Russian EmpireBallerinaMarina Kondratyeva ru born 1934 Soviet UnionRussian Federationballerina Bolshoi Theater nbsp Marina Kondratyeva as Giselle and Maris Liepa as Albrecht in a scene from Act 1 of Adolphe Charles Adam s ballet Giselle staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 January 1972 nbsp Theodore Kosloff 1882 1956 Russian EmpireUnited StatesDanseur nbsp Theodore Kosloff in Fokine s 1913 production of ScheherazadeEkaterina Krysanova born 1985 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Ekaterina Krysanova as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty Bolshoi Theatre 2012 nbsp Mathilde Kschessinska 1872 1971 Russian EmpireFrancePrima ballerina assoluta nbsp Russian ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya in The Talisman 1905 Mariinsky Theatre St Peterbsurg RussiaNinel Kurgapkina 1929 2009 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Teacher Mariinsky TheatreL edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageLeonid Lavrovsky 1905 1967 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Choreographer Ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Mikhaylovsky Theatre Bolshoi TheatreMikhail Lavronsky born 1941 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Bolshoi TheatreLarissa Lezhnina born 1969 Russian FederationNetherlandsBallerina Mariinsky Theatre Dutch National Ballet nbsp Olga Lepeshinskaya 1916 2008 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Olga Lepeshinskaya as Kitry in Don Quixote 1940 nbsp Andris Liepa born 1962 Soviet UnionRussian FederationLatviaDanseur Bolshoi Theatre Mariinsky Theatre Theatre director Theatrical producer nbsp Ilze Liepa born 1963 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi TheatreMaris Liepa 1936 1989 LatviaSoviet UnionDanseur Latvian Opera and Ballet Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Marina Kondratyeva ru as Giselle and Maris Liepa as Albrecht in a scene from Act 1 of Adolphe Charles Adam s ballet Giselle staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 January 1972 nbsp Serge Lifar 1905 1986 Russian EmpireFranceDanseur ballet master nbsp Tamara Toumanova and Serge Lifar in Swan LakeUlyana Lopatkina born 1973 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Ulyana Lopatkina of the Mariinsky Ballet in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House 7 August 2009 nbsp Lydia Lopokova 1892 1981 Russian EmpireUnited KingdomBallerina nbsp Ballerina Lydia LopokovaFyodor Lopukhov 1886 1973 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Teacher Choreographer Ballet master Mariinsky Theatre Mikhaylovsky TheatreElena Lukom 1891 1968 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionBallerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Elena Lukom and Vladimir Ponomarev as ballet Les Caprices du Papillon St Petersburg Russia 1919Svetlana Lunkina born 1979 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Svetlana Lunkina as Odette in Swan Lake Bolshoi Theatre 22 May 2011M edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageAskold Makarov 1925 2000 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur Choreographer Teacher Mariinsky Theatre Theatre Choreographic Miniatures nbsp Natalia Makarova 2012 Natalia Makarova born 1940 Soviet UnionUnited Statesprima ballerina assolutaChoreographer Teacher Kirov Ballet Defected to the West in 1970 Initially active with the Royal Ballet then settled in US and active globallyYulia Makhalina born 1968 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Leonide Massine 1896 1979 Russian EmpireDanseur choreographerValery Maximov born 1971 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur choreographer ActorEkaterina Maximova 1939 2009 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown Maximova was coached by the legendary ballerina Galina Ulanova Her greatest successes were the roles of Kitri in Don Quixote Clara called Maria in the Bolshoi production in The Nutcracker and the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella Maximova performed with the Bolshoi Ballet from 1958 until 1980 often performing opposite her husband Vladimir Vasiliev She and her husband gained wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli s filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi s opera La traviata 1983 When the Bolshoi Ballet toured to the United States for the first time in 1959 Maximova also performed as a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles in The Stone Flower and other ballets Following her career as a dancer Maximova was a coach with the ballet and a member of the GITIS Institute faculty After that she became one of the most important teachers and repetiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre Galina Stepanenko Svetlana Lunkina Marianna Ryzhkina Anna Nikulina were among her adepts nbsp Yekaterina Maksimova R as Kitri and Vladimir Vasilyev as Basilio in a scene from Ludwig Minkus ballet Don Quixote staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 January 1971Asaf Messerer 1903 1992 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur choreographer nbsp Sulamith Messerer 1908 2004 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionUnited KingdomJapan Ballerina choreographerGalina Mezentseva born 1952 Soviet UnionRussian FederationUnited StatesBallerina Mariinsky TheatreIgor Moiseyev 1906 2007 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallet master Igor Moiseyev BalletIrek Mukhamedov OBE born 1960 TatarstanSoviet UnionUnited KingdomSenior Principal Dancer Bolshoi Ballet The Royal Ballet Awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for best dancer in the world in 1988 Defected to the West in 1990 Settled in the United Kingdom where he performed in leading roles before taking up choreography Vladimir Muravlev born 1974 UzbekistanRussiaPrincipal Dancer Moscow Classical BalletN edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageAnastasia Nabokina 1971 Russian Soviet UnionRussiaBronislava Nijinska 1891 1972 Polish Russian EmpireUnited States Prima Ballerina choreographerVaslav Nijinsky 1890 1950 PolishRussian Empire Danseur choreographer nbsp Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose nbsp Irma Nioradze born 1969 Soviet UnionGeorgiaRussian Federation Ballerina Mariinsky TheatreCleo Nordi 1898 1983 KronstadtRussian EmpireBallerina with Anna Pavlova choreographerballet teacher Sadler s Wells Ballet London nbsp Rudolf Nureyev 1938 1993 Soviet UnionFranceAustria Danseur choreographer Mariinsky Theatre Paris OperaO edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageEvgenia Obraztsova born 1984 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima Ballerina Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Evgenia Obraztsova dancing The Sleeping Beauty Royal Opera House London November 2009Natalia Osipova born 1986 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre Mikhaylovsky Theatre nbsp Natalia Osipova in an extract from Flames of Paris at the October 2011 reopening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Artem Ovcharenko born 1986 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDancer Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Artem Ovcharenko as Jean de Brienne Raymonda Bolshoi Theatre 2010P edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Valery Panov born 1938 Soviet UnionIsraelDanseur choreographer Mariinsky TheatreDaria Pavlenko born 1978 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Anna Pavlova 1881 1931 Russian EmpireThe NetherlandsPrima ballerina nbsp Anna Pavlova in the Fokine Saint Saens The Dying Swan Saint Petersburg 1905Nadezhda Pavlova born 1956 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Marie Petipa 1857 1930 Russian EmpireFranceBallerina nbsp Marius Petipa 1818 1910 FranceRussian EmpireDanseur choreographer ballet master Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Ballets by Marius Petipa In Philately Paquita 1847 The Sleeping Beauty 1890 Swan Lake 1895 Raymonda 1898 nbsp Maya Plisetskaya 1925 2015 Soviet UnionRussian FederationLithuaniaSpainPrima ballerina assoluta Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Maya Plisetskaya performing in Carmen Carmen Suite 1974 nbsp Olga Preobrajenska 1871 1962 Russian EmpireFranceBallerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Olga Preobrajenska in the title role of the choreographer Louis Merante s and the composer Leo Delibes s ballet Sylvia Mariinski Ballett 1901R edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Tatiana Riabouchinska 1917 2000 Russian EmpireFranceUnited StatesBallerina nbsp Ida Rubinstein 1883 1960 Russian EmpireFranceBallerina actressFarukh Ruzimatov 1963 Tashkent Uzbekistan gt br gt Uzbek RussianDanseur Assistant Artistic Director nbsp Marianna Ryzhkina RussiaBallerinaS edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageGalina Samsova 1937 2021 RussiaBallerinaOlga Sapphire 1907 1981 Russian EmpireJapanDanseur Teacher Nihon Gekijō Tokyo Olga Ivanovna Pavlova trained at both the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute and Moscow Choreographic School and performed throughout Russia until her marriage in the early 1930s to a Japanese diplomat Moving to Japan in 1936 she was influential in establishing ballet in Japan 4 nbsp Sapphire performing in Giselle Tokyo 1936Gennady Selutsky ru born 1936 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur Teacher Mariinsky Theatre Vaganova Academy of Russian BalletLudmila Semenyaka born 1952 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Lyudmila Semenyaka left and Nikolai Kovmir right performing at the 1st international ballet contest in Moscow 1 June 1969Nina Semizorova ru born 1956 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Marina Semyonova 1908 2010 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina assoluta Teacher Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet trained prima ballerina She was born in Saint Petersburg She was named a People s Artist of the USSR in 1975 She worked in the Kirov Ballet until 1930 transferred to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow Semyonova was guest with the Paris Opera Ballet in 1935 where she danced Giselle with Serge Lifar She received the Stalin Prize for 1941 and retired in 1952 After that she became one of the most important teachers and repetiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre Natalia Bessmertnova Marina Kondratieva ru Nadezhda Pavlova Nina Sorokina Ludmila Semenyaka Nina Timofeeva Nina Ananiashvili Galina Stepanenko and Nikolay Tsiskaridze were among her adepts In 2003 she won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement Semyonova retired from her coaching duties at the age of 96 died on 9 June 2010 in her home in Moscow three days before her 102nd birthday Konstantin Sergeyev 1910 1992 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur Choreographer Mariinsky TheatreAlla Shelest 1919 1998 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky TheatreMaria Shirinkina born 1987 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima Ballerina Mariinsky Theatre Bayerisches StaatsballettVladimir Shklyarov born 1985 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPremier Danseur Mariinsky Theatre Bayerisches StaatsballettDaniil SimkinRussian FederationPremier Danseur American Ballet TheatreYuri Soloviev 1940 1977 Soviet UnionPremier Danseur Mariinsky TheatreAlina Somova born 1985 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Alina Somova in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky s ballet Sleeping BeautyNina Sorokina 1942 2011 Elektrostal Soviet UnionRussianBallerina Ballet Bolshoi nbsp Olga Spessivtseva 1895 1991 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionFranceUnited StatesPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Russian Prima ballerina Olga Spessivtseva as Odette in Swan Lake 1934Galina Stepanenko born 1966 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Galina Stepanenko as Aegina from ballet Spartacus Bolshoi TheatreRaisa Struchkova 1925 2005 Soviet UnionRussian FederationBallerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Raisa Struchkova as Aurora in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky s ballet Sleeping Beauty staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 March 1954 nbsp Mariia Surovshchikova Petipa 1836 1882 Russian EmpirePrima ballerinaT edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageTamara Tchinarova 1919 2017 BessarabiaFranceAustraliaUnited Kingdom Armenian Georgian and Ukrainian descent ballerina Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo choreographer Trained in Paris by Preobrajenska Tchinarova was closely associated with Balanchine s Baby Ballerinas and a member of Wassily de Basil s Original Ballet Russe and Les Ballets 1933 In Australia she created roles for the Kirsova Ballet and for Edouard Borovansky She worked on films with husband Peter Finch Settled in the UK from 1948 she was an English Russian interpreter for ballet companies and author of dancer biographies and history nbsp Tamara Tchinarova in Les Presages Sydney between 6 December 1936 and January 1939 photo Max DupainVadim Tedeev ru 1946 2011 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDancer Stanislavski and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre nbsp Ekaterina Telesheva 1804 1857 Russian EmpireBallerina Bolshoi Kamenny TheatreViktoria Tereshkina born 1983 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky TheatreVasily Tikhomirov 1876 1956 Russian EmpireSoviet Union dancer Ballet master Teacher Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Nina Timofeeva born 1935 Soviet UnionRussian FederationIsraelBallerina Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Liudmila Titova born 1987 Russian FederationPrima ballerina Director Royal Moscow Ballet Liudmila Titova Russian Lyudmila Titova 5 was born 9 October 1987 in Moscow Russia and has been called the one of the most celebrated ballet dancer and ballet teacher in the world 6 Born in Moscow Russia Liudmila Titova started dancing at the age of seven years based on recommendation from her doctor to help with a problem with her back 7 She joined the school s dance club and found herself dancing every day At the age of 10 she took a three day examination and physical and was only seven out of 105 applicants admitted into the Bolshoi Academy of Ballet 8 also known as the Moscow State Academy of Choreography 7 where her area of study became Theatre of Classical Ballet by Smirnov Golovanov For the next eight years Titova trained eight hours per day six days per week After graduating the world renown prestigious Bolshoi Academy of Ballet Liudmila Titova went to work for the Royal Moscow Ballet Company The Royal Moscow Ballet Company is located in Moscow Russia so Liudmila Titova was able to stay in her native Moscow At the early age just 19 Liudmila was given leading a role in one of the world s most coveted plays Cinderella 9 This unimaginable feat is unheard of in the Ballet realm where leading roles are generally earned by ballet dancers after many years or performances usually after the age of 25 Liudmila was such a success she went on to be the lead in other famous plays such as The Nutcracker Don Quixote Giselle Bolero Carmen Romeo and Juliet Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake and The Time In 2014 at the age of 26 Liudmila Titova was promoted to the position of the General Director of the Royal Moscow Ballet nbsp Nikolay Tsiskaridze born 1973 Soviet UnionGeorgiaRussian Federationdancer Bolshoi Theatre Nikolay Tsiskaridze also spelled Ziskaridze one of the most decorated Russian dancers was a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years Ethnically Georgian he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973 He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991 In 1992 Tsiskaridze joined the ballet company of the Bolshoi Theater The then artistic director Yuri Grigorovich saw Nikolai at the graduation exam At the theater he had the good fortune to enter the class of prominent ballerina Marina Semyonova and as Nikolai says became his second mother The legendary Galina Ulanova also assisted him Over the course of his dance career he performed more than 70 roles in major classical works One of the best ballet princes he is equally convincing in modern choreographies Roland Petit who staged La Dame de Pique in 2001 created the role of Hermann especially for Tsiskaridze In 1996 he graduated from the Teacher Training Department of the Moscow Ballet Academy and since 2003 had been teaching a daily ballet class at the Bolshoi Theatre combining his dance career with coaching Besides since 2004 he had been also teaching at the Moscow Ballet Academy He became the youngest person to be named a People s Artist of Russia 2001 He received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 and 2003 and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1999 During his career he received many honours Silver medal at the Osaka Ballet Competition 1995 Golden medal at the Moscow Ballet Competition 1997 Honoured Artist of Russia 1997 Russian Golden Mask theatrical prize 1998 2000 2003 Benois de la Danse 1999 Order of Honour of the Republic of Georgia 2003 Danza amp Danza award as best dancer of the year 2003 Triumph prize 2004 Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Francaise 2006 People s Artist of North Osetia Alania Republic 2013 In 2014 Tsiskaridze graduated as a Master of Law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University On 29 Nov 2014 Tsiskaridze was elected as Rector of Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg est in 1738 nbsp Tsiskaridze in 2017 nbsp Tamara Toumanova 1919 1996 Russian SFSRFranceUnited States Georgian descent Prima ballerina choreographer Trained in Paris by Preobrajenska Toumanova was one of Balanchine s Baby Ballerinas and a close colleague of Leonide Massine She made her debut in the children s ballet L Eventail de Jeanne Nicknamed The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet she performed in Balanchine s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Le Palais de Cristal She appeared in Hollywood films including The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Tonight We Sing playing Anna Pavlova Deep in My Heart Days of Glory and Alfred Hitchcock s Torn Curtain nbsp Tamara Toumanova in 1932 U edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Galina Ulanova 1910 1998 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina assoluta Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre Trained under Agrippina Vaganova and her own mother a ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet Ulanova joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1928 After 1944 she became a prima ballerina assoluta in Bolshoi Theatre In 1945 she danced the title role in the world premiere of Prokofiev s Cinderella On her first international tour in 1956 she achieved enormous success Having retired from the stage in 1960 Ulanova coached many generations of the Russian dancers After that she became one of the most important teachers and repetiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre Ekaterina Maximova Vladimir Vasiliev Svetlana Adyrkhaeva Nina Timofeeva Ludmila Semenyaka Nina Semizorova ru Alla Mikhalchenko ru Nadezhda Gracheva and Nikolay Tsiskaridze were among her adepts nbsp Galina Ulanova as Juliet right and Yury Zhdanov ru as Romeo in Sergei Prokofiev s ballet Romeo And Juliet 1 October 1954Andrey Uvarov ru born 1971 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDancer Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Svetlana Zakharova and Andrey Uvarov in Swan Lake Bolshoi Theatre 28 10 2011V edit Portrait Person Details Stage Image nbsp Agrippina Vaganova 1879 1951 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionBallerina Teacher ballet master Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet under the Premier Maitre de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus Her Fundamentals of the Classical Dance 1934 remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today Among Vaganova s dance alumnae were the distinguished Soviet ballerinas Marina Semenova Olga Jordan ru Galina Ulanova Tatiana Vecheslova ru Feya Balabina ru Natalia Dudinskaya Alla Shelest Nonna Yastrebova ru Olga Moiseeva ru Ludmilla Safronova ru Ninel Kurgapkina Alla Osipenko and Irina Kolpakova Shortly after her death on 1 November 1957 the Choreographic College on Rossi street was renamed in her honor in 1961 it received the title of academic and in 1991 it began to use the name Agrippina Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet nbsp Agrippina Vaganova in La Esmeralda St Petersburg circa 1910 Ivan Vasiliev born 1989 Russian FederationDanseur nbsp Ivan Vasiliev in an extract from Spartacus at the October 2011 re opening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Vladimir Vasiliev born 1940 Soviet Union Russian FederationDanseur Bolshoi Theatre Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev a Russian ballet dancer was premier dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1958 his teachers included Aleksey Yermolayev and joined the Bolshoi Ballet He became a premier dancer who made enormous contributions to the development of classical male dance he came to embody the strong new Bolshoi male He was the first dancer to be given the award la medaille d or du meilleur danseur du Monde The Gold Medal of the World s Best Dancer subsequently Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patrick Dupond were also awarded the distinction Russia s influential ballet critic and choreographer Fyodor Lopukhov called him God of the dance A miracle in art perfection Numerous roles were created for him and he performed throughout the world usually partnering his wife Bolshoi prima ballerina Ekaterina Maximova Among the most notable were those created by Yuri Grigorovich who gave him the principal roles in his original productions of Spartacus The Nutcracker Ivan the Terrible Nonetheless he and Maximova gleaned wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli s filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi s opera La traviata 1983 Both performed in Spanish costume Vasiliev as a matador in the divertissements composed for the equivalent of Act II scene 2 Besides Maximova Vasiliev s famous partners included Galina Ulanova Maya Plisetskaya Alicia Alonso Carla Fracci Rita Poelvoorde and Ambra Vallo nbsp Vladimir Vasilyev as Nutcracker Prince in scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky s ballet The Nutcracker staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1 March 1966 nbsp Ekaterina Vazem 1848 1937 Russian Empire Soviet UnionPrima ballerina Teacher Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Ekaterina Vazem costumed as Nikiya for Act II of La Bayadere St Peterbsurg 1877 Tatiana Vecheslova ru 1910 1991 Russian Empire Soviet UnionPrima ballerina Mariinsky TheatreOleg Vinogradov born 1937 Soviet UnionRussian FederationDanseur Ballet master Choreographer Teacher Mikhaylovsky Theatre Mariinsky Theatre nbsp Diana Vishneva born 1976 Soviet UnionRussian FederationPrima ballerina Mariinsky Theatre Vishneva is one of the 21st century s leading dancers she is a prima ballerina at the Mariinsky Ballet since 1995 and performs as a guest in ABT since 2005 as well as on other world scenes Her repertoire includes Don Quixote Romeo and Juliet La Bayadere Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake and Giselle She also performs in George Balanchine s Jewels and Kenneth MacMillan s Manon nbsp Paquita pas de trois Pierre Vladimiroff 1893 1970 Russian EmpireFranceUnited StatesDanseur nbsp Performing Paquita with Elza Vill ru and Elizaveta Gerdt 1905 nbsp Anastasia Volochkova born 1976 RussiaBallerina nbsp Stella Voskovetskaya Stella Voskovetskaya born 1965 Soviet UnionUnited StatesBallet dancer Choreographer Mariinsky Theatre Stella Voskovetskaya Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet graduate Founder and Artistic Director of Illinois Classical Ballet created a unique and very effective system of training where she blended elements of training from Vaganova ballet school where the training program for children is truly unique and was tested for centuries and unusually effective system barre au sol developed by Boris Knyazev That program significantly speed up and improve the training of young ballet dancers helped with correcting posture turnout in all three positions flexibility and balanceY edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageLeonid Yakobson 1904 1975 Russian EmpireSoviet Union Danseur Choreographer Ballet master Mariinsky TheatreAleksey Yermolayev 1910 1975 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Choreographer Teacher Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Marina Semyonova as the Princess and Aleksey Yermolayev as the Nutcracker in The Nutcracker staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre 1939 Z edit Portrait Person Details Stage ImageRostislav Zakharov 1907 1984 Russian EmpireSoviet UnionDanseur Teacher Choreographer Ballet master Theatre director Mariinsky Theatre Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Svetlana Zakharova born 1979 Soviet UnionRussia Prima ballerina Bolshoi Theatre nbsp Svetlana Zakharova and Andrei Merkuriev in 2006See also editBallets Russes Bolshoi Theater Mariinsky Theater New York City Ballet Kyiv Ballet Russian ballet Russian composers Russian culture Russian dancers 1890s and early 1900s painting series by Edgar Degas Russian opera singers Sergei Diaghilev List of African American ballerinas List of dancers Prima ballerina assoluta List of prima ballerinas List of the main ballet masters of the Saint Petersburg State BalletReferences edit Garafola L 1989 Diaghilev s Ballets Russes Oxford University Press p 576 ISBN 0 19 505701 5 Cashin K K Alexander Pushkin s Influence on Russian Ballet Chapter Five Pushkin Soviet Ballet and Afterward PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2 January 2008 Retrieved 27 December 2007 A Tale of Two Operas Petersburg City Retrieved 11 January 2008 Kadzi Ayako Shelaeva Alla 2019 Vy brosali v nas cvetami neznakomogoiskusstva russkie baleriny na sluzhbeyaponskomu klassicheskomu baletu You Threw Flowers of Unfamiliar Art at Us Russian Ballerinas in the Service of Japanese Classical Ballet Peterburgskij istoricheskij zhurnal Saint Petersburg Historical Journal in Russian 1 Saint Petersburg Izdatelstvo Nestor Istoriya 251 264 doi 10 51255 2311 603x 2019 00015 ISSN 2311 603X Natalya Britvina 2014 Lyudmila Titova Predela chelovecheskih vozmozhnostej net ya znayu chto sposobna na bolshee internet zhurnal ArtREPRIZA Retrieved 15 July 2014 Ritika Sharma 2014 BALLET IS FOOD FOR THOUGHT Titova The Gulf Times Archived from the original on 5 August 2014 Retrieved 29 June 2014 a b Lyudmila Titova Predela chelovecheskih vozmozhnostej net ya znayu chto sposobna na bolshee ArtREPRIZA mir kultury i iskusstva Chrissie Russell 2014 Raising the barre Another side to the world of Black Swan The Independent of Ireland Retrieved 25 July 2014 Raising the barre Another side to the world of Black Swan External links edit nbsp Media related to Ballet dancers from Russia at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of Russian ballet dancers amp oldid 1181937879, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
