Vladimir Vasiliev

Vladimir Vasiliev

Birth : 1940-04-18, Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

History

Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (born April 18, 1940) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer from Moscow, Russia. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000. He was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns. Vladimir Vasiliev was named "God of the dance" and is regarded as a classical dancer on the same level as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. At the height of their careers, Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova were the golden couple of Russian ballet.

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Vladimir Vasiliev

Movies

Tango: Our Dance
Tango: Our Dance
Autor e intérprete de "Fragmentos de una biografía"
Documentary filmed in Buenos Aires that shows the importance of tango for Argentines, with dance scenes, voiceovers and interviews with professionals but also with other anonymous characters who find their form of expression in this music. The film was shot at a time of tango revival around the world.
Anyuta
Anyuta
Film-ballet
Spartacus
Spartacus
Spartacus
A 1975 recording of the Bolshoi Ballet's performance of Yuri Grigorovich's production of "Spartacus".