Yuri Grigorovich
The Russian Ballet Collection: more newly restored films – Ivan the Terrible & Romeo and Juliet
Ivan the Terrible epitomises the powerhouse that was Soviet choreography
Yuri Grigorovich, master Russian choreographer, reaches his 90th birthday
As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more
As he celebrates his 90th birthday, three Yuri Grigorovich classic ballet productions come to the big screen
As Charlotte Kasner points out in her in-depth look at Yuri Grigorovich, if there is one choreographer who dominated Russian ballet during the second half of the 20th-century it is surely Yuri Grigorovich, who on January 2nd, 2017, celebrates his 90th birthday, an occasion being marked by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow with a season … Read more