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  Yury Grigorovich Information
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (born January 2, 1927 in Leningrad) is a Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years.
Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet.
Grigorovich has been heading the juries of numerous international competitions in classical ballet.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Yury_Grigorovich   (190 words)

  
 Grigorovich Yu. N.
Yury Nikolaevich Grigorovich is an outstanding Russian choreographer of the 20th century.
Grigorovich was the soloist of the Maryinsky Theatre for 18 years and later for a short time headed its ballet.
Grigorovich was rewarded with the highest staterecompenses, honorary titles and international prizes for his merits.
russia.rin.ru /guides_e/5873.html   (496 words)

  
 9th International Ballet Competition And Contest Of Choreographers
Yury Grigorovich was the President of the Jury of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th International Ballet Competitions.
Yuri Grigorovich, the outstanding Russian choreographer, graduate of the Petersburg school of Russian classical ballet, began his career as soloist at the Maryinsky Theatre where he was later to mount his first important choreo-graphic works "Stone Flower" by S.Prokofiev and "Legend of Love" by A.Melikov.
Grigorovich has headed juries of international ballet competitions in Russia, Finland, the USA, Switzerland, Japan, Bulgaria and the Ukraine and he is the Chairman of the "Benois de la Danse" award, which enjoys the patronage of UNESCO.
www.russianballet.ru /competition/eng/about.htm   (662 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - The Grigorovich Era
Grigorovich became chief choreographer at the Bolshoi in 1964 to retain the post for 30 years and revive the time-tested company's global renown in a producer-performer union.
The Grigorovich Era of the Soviet ballet started with his debut in choreography - Sergei Prokofiev's "The Stone Flower," staged in 1957 at the Kirov Theater, the gem of St. Petersburg, which has now regained its name of Mariinsky.
As Grigorovich has it, Siegfried's love story is really the story of a haunted choice as the Prince rushes from good to evil and back, and his dreams clash with harsh reality.
en.rian.ru /analysis/20070118/59319631.html   (871 words)

  
 Moscow loves a legend's return. 1/5/2002. ABC News Online
Critics have hailed Grigorovich's return, to present 'Legend', as the 'sensation of the season'.
But while Grigorovich is famous for his bouts of foul temper, dancer Dmitri Belogolovtsev insists the maestro, still affectionately called Dyedushka [Grandpa] at the Bolshoi, could also be quite an open man.
But although Grigorovich already came back to his old theatre once before, taking his production of Swan Lake there last year, he was still reluctant to say much about it.
www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/bolshoi.htm   (535 words)

  
 Intrenet-journal/balletrussia.com, operarussia.com
This line of the plot, evidently essential for Grigorovich, was not developed any further by the ballerina, which made her Raymonda look a purely divertissement role in the second act.
Ludmila Semenyaka, Svetlana’s constant tutor, is remembered as a brilliant second cast Raymonda of the Bolshoi’s 1984 season, where she presented her heroine as an earthly and concrete personality.
Svetlana is known to have actually patterned the nuances of the role entirely on her tutor’s vision that goes against the idea of Yury Grigorovich, who preferred his heroine to be gracefully romantic.
www.bolshoi.org /Pressa/zakharova-raymonda.htm   (935 words)

  
 Intrenet-journal/balletrussia.com, operarussia.com
The article had a photo of Irek Muhamedov and the troupe rehearsing.
The ballet can also be found in the album " Yury Grigorovich" issued in 1987.
The theatre old-timers recollect that Grigorovich made up choreography for 40 minutes of the ballet music.
www.bolshoi.org /balet/bolt/bolt-anons.htm   (819 words)

  
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Bolshoi Theatre, choreography of Aleksandr Gorsky, restaged by A. FadeetchevaYury Grigorovich Ballet Theatre of Krasnodar, staged by Yury Grigorovich
www.volochkova.ru /enacademics   (121 words)

  
 Nina Ananiashvili, Bolshoi Ballet
In 1982, during the Bolshoi’s tour to Hamburg, Germany, Ananiashvili made her debut as Odette-Odile in Grigorovich’s version of Swan Lake.
In that same year Nina made her first appearances with a foreign company.
She first danced in Tbilisi in 1983 while only a soloist with the Bolshoi, appearing in Swan Lake and in Chabukiani’s version of Don Quixote partnered by Yuri Vasyuchenko.
www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com /Ninotchka10.html   (1622 words)

  
 Mariinsky.ru - Ballet
The 1960s saw the staging of Spartacus and Choreographic Miniatures by Leonid Lavrovsky, the productions of The Stone Flower and The Legend of Love by Yury Grigorovich as well as The Coast of Hope and The Leningrad Symphony by Igor Belsky – the ballets which revived the traditions of symphonic dances.
During the period of the 1950s – 1970s among the dancers of the company were Irina Kolpakova, Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko, Irina Gensler, Alla Sizova, Rydolph Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Valery Panov, Yury Solovyev and Anatoly Sapogov.
Towards the end of the 1970s in the repertory of the company appeared Le Sylfide and Naples by Auguste Bournonville, fragments of ancient choreography by Perrot, Saint-Léon and Coralli.
www.mariinsky.ru /en/ballet   (759 words)

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