Vladimir vasiliev biography

(b Moscow, 18 Apr. )

Russian dancer, choreographer, and company director.

Vladimir shklyarov death

He studied at the Moscow Ballet School, a student of Mikhail Gabovich, and graduated into the Bolshoi Ballet in He was quickly promoted to principal dancer and for the next twenty years was the Bolshoi's leading male star. Heroic and dynamic, possessing a then unparalleled virtuoso technique, he came to embody the image of the post-war Bolshoi male dancer.

His dramatic athleticism was showcased most famously in Spartacus, but was also acclaimed for the romantic intensity with which he interpreted Albrecht. He created leading roles in Radunsky's new staging of The Humpbacked Horse (), Tarasova and Lapauri's Song of the Forests (), Lavrovsky's Pages of (from) a Life (), Goleizovsky's Leili and Medzhnun (), Grigorovich's Nutcracker (), Spartacus (), Sleeping Beauty (), and Angara (), and Béjart's Petrushka ().

He also created the leading roles in several of his own ballets including Ic