Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is...
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Theatre, Bolshoi (Kamenny) Theatre, later Mariinsky Theatre and others). The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are among the oldest and best known ballet and...
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first presented by Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet on 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1869. Petipa and Minkus revised the ballet into a more elaborate and expansive...
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Bolshoi (большой, meaning big, large, great, grand, etc.) may refer to: Bolshoi Theatre, a ballet and opera theatre in Moscow, Russia Bolshoi Ballet,...
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Anastasia Volochkova (category English National Ballet)
was reported that the Bolshoi Ballet had dismissed her for being too tall and heavy. A Moscow court ruled that the Bolshoi Ballet had to reinstate Volochkova...
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version for the Bolshoi in 1962 and it was part of the Bolshoi's 1962 tour to New York. The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow...
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Joy Womack (category 21st-century American ballet dancers)
Joy Annabelle Womack is an American ballet dancer. She is the first American woman to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program with...
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The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg remain famous throughout the world. For the full plainlist of Russian ballet dancers...
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The Nutcracker (redirect from The nutcracker ballet)
Royal Ballet, Yury Grigorovich for the Bolshoi Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov for the American Ballet Theatre, Fernand Nault for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens...
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Natalia Osipova (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
Choreography (The Bolshoi Ballet Academy), under the tutelage of Marina Kotova and Marina Leonova. At the age of 18, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a member...
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Swan Lake (category Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre)
Reisinger (Václav Reisinger). The ballet was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March [O.S. 20 February] 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Although it...
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Maya Plisetskaya (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
dancers of the Bolshoi. Plisetskaya studied ballet at The Bolshoi Ballet School from age nine, and she first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when she...
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Svetlana Zakharova (dancer) (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
Ukrainian-born prima ballerina who dances with the Bolshoi Ballet and an étoile of the La Scala Theatre Ballet. Svetlana Zakharova was born in Lutsk, Ukrainian...
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Moscow State Academy of Choreography (redirect from The Bolshoi Ballet Academy)
хореографии), commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of ballet in the world, located in Moscow,...
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Nikolay Tsiskaridze (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
Nik'oloz Cisk'aridze) is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013). Nikolay Tsiskaridze...
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Sergei Filin (category Russian male ballet dancers)
Фи́лин; born 27 October 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. He is currently...
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Ekaterina Maximova (section Ballet roles)
She was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre for 30 years, a ballet pedagogue, winner of international ballet competitions, Laureate of many prestigious...
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and choreographer who had started his career at the Bolshoi Theatre, was appointed Maître de ballet at the Paris Opera. Clustine's hiring promoted a frenzy...
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Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) (redirect from Vladimir Vasiliev (ballet dancer))
April 1940) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000...
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David Motta Soares (category Bolshoi Ballet)
classical ballet dancer. He was a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet. In May 2022 David became a Principal Dancer with the Berlin State Ballet. Born...
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Marina Kondratyeva (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
kɐnˈdratʲjɪvə]; 1 February 1934 – 8 July 2024) was a Russian ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet. Described as "weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual", she is known...
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Le Corsaire (category Ballets premiered at the Paris Opera Ballet)
Corsaire for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet), who continued performing the ballet with some regularity...
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Julian MacKay (category American male ballet dancers)
1997) is an American ballet dancer. He is the first American to have completed both the lower and upper schools at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow....
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Cesare Pugni. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on 15 December [O.S. 3 December] 1864 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in...
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Alexander Godunov (category American male ballet dancers)
28, 1949 – May 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979...
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Ivan Vasiliev (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
Discovery of the Year QG Prize, for his first ballet evening as choreographer. Vasiliev joined the Bolshoi Ballet in the end of 2006, as first soloist. When...
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The Bolshoi Ballet is a 1957 British musical film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, and Nikolai Fadeyechev. The film's...
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Ekaterina Krysanova (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
of Bolshoi Ballet. Krysanova was born in Moscow, Russia in 1985. Her mother took her to ballet lessons when she was 8. She began studying ballet at the...
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Galina Stepanenko (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
is a Russian ballet teacher. She is a former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, and since 2013 has been head of the Bolshoi's ballet troupe. Born...
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expression in the Soviet Union. Many ballet companies like the Bolshoi Ballet from the Soviet Union and the American Ballet Theatre from the United States were...
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