• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Anastasia Stashkevich (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    Сташкевич; born 20 November 1984) is a Russian principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet. Anastasia Stashkevich was born in Leningrad, and studied at the Moscow...
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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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    Svetlana Zakharova (dancer) (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    June 1979) is a Ukrainian-born prima ballerina who dances with the Bolshoi Ballet and is acting rector of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Svetlana...
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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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  • girl from a small mining town who trains to perform as a ballet dancer on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. It was released in Russia on May 11...
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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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    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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    ballet dancer. Formerly a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, she is currently, and since 2022, a prima ballerina with the Dutch National Ballet in...
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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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    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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  • November 2022). "Bolshoi Ballet-Hoo!". Vive le Rock!. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Graham, Ben (24 November 2015). "Reviews: The Bolshoi - The Arkive". The...
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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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  • The Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, where she learned Russian. During her time there, Tonteri-Young appeared in La fille mal gardée at the Bolshoi Theatre...
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    Maria Alexandrova (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    Алекса́ндрова; born 20 July 1978) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, People’s Artist of Russia. Alexandrova was born in Moscow, Russian...
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