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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.
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- From Leningrad to Moscow
- Leader of His Generation
- Departure and Comeback
Yury Grigorovich moved to Moscow in 1964. The nephew of Georgy Rozai, a celebrated dancer with the Mariinsky Theater and Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, he graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School and became a lead dancer at the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky). In 1957, Grigorovich became famous overnight after staging the ballet The Stone Flo...
These productions brought him acclaim and in 1964 Grigorovich became head of the Bolshoi Ballet. His first production in the new capacity was a new version of The Nutcracker, which transformed what was considered a children's ballet into a philosophical parable. On the first night, the leading parts were performed by Maximova and Vasiliev, with Nat...
His art, sophisticated and at the same time accessible, in time turned into one of the main symbols of Soviethigh culture. Spartacus was followed by Ivan the Terrible and later The Golden Age, which celebrated the first years after the establishment of the USSR. However, with time, the choreographer, whose first productions earned him a reputation ...
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.
