Yury Grigorovich was a Russian choreographer, ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1927 in Saint Petersburg, who died in 2025. This page lists 4 works credited to Grigorovich as choreographer, including Legend of Love, Spartacus (2016-2017) and Spartacus.
Biography
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Григорович; 2 January 1927 – 19 May 2025) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and pedagogue who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years, especially as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995. His choreographies of The Stone Flower, Ivan the Terrible and Romeo and Juliet are said to have "redefined Soviet ballet".
Works choreographed by Yury Grigorovich
| Title | Type | Premiere |
|---|---|---|
| Ivan the Terrible | film | 1979 |
| Legend of Love | ballet | — |
| Spartacus | film | 1977 |
| Spartacus (2016-2017) | dance production | 2017 |
Contemporaries
Ninel Kurgapkina
Russian ballerina
Vera Shvetsova
Russian ballerina
Askold Makarov
Russian ballet dancer (1925-2000)
Igor Belsky
Russian ballet dancer (1925-1999)
Andrey Petrov
Soviet and Russian composer (1930–2006)
Makhmud Esambayev
Soviet actor and dancer
Natalia Kasatkina
Russian ballerina (1934–2024)
Alla Shelest
Russian ballet dancer (1919–1998)
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