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Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Григоро́вич; born 2 January 1927 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years.
Yuri Grigorovich, Russian dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995. His notable productions included The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Ivan the Terrible, and Angara. Learn more about Grigorovich’s life and career.
Dec 30, 2016 · As Yury Grigorovich, one of Soviet ballet’s greatest figures, turns 90 on Jan. 2, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky theaters are reviving his legendary productions.
Born in Leningrad in 1927, Yuri Grigorovich, is a dancer, artistic director, and choreographer whose ballets set a trend that for many years determined the development of ballet in Russia. He trained at the Leningrad Choreographic School before joining the Kirov Ballet as a soloist in 1946.
Such films as “Ballet master Yuri Grigorovich” (1970), “Life in Dance” (1978) and “Ballet in the first person” were dedicated to the art of Yuri Grigorovich. Yuri Grigorovich transferred his own ballets and classical ballets in his edition multiple times to the stages of Russian theatres as well as theatres in other countries.
The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed by Igor Moiseyev; however it was the 1968 production, choreographed by Yury Grigorovich, which achieved the greatest acclaim for the ballet.
Grigorovich Yuri - Bayerische Staatsoper. Yuri Grigorovichs ballets dominate the repertory of contemporary works, and his stagings of the classic ballets reflect his personal taste arid his often-stated conviction that drama must always infuse and be expressed through dancing.
