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The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1738 during the reign of Empress Anna , the academy was known as the Imperial Ballet School until the Soviet era, when, after a brief hiatus, the school was re-established as the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute .
The Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Russian: Московская государственная академия хореографии), commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of ballet in the world, [1] [2] located in Moscow, Russia. It is the affiliate school of the Bolshoi Ballet.
Anna Ol was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, to a family of an engineer and housewife.She started dancing at six years old in a small ballet school in Siberia. At the age of ten [1] [3] she started professional education as a ballerina at Krasnoyarsk Ballet College. [2]
Artem Vyacheslavovich Ovcharenko (Russian: Артём Вячеславович Овчаренко; born 31 December 1986) is a Russian classical ballet dancer. He is a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and a guest artist with the Hamburg Ballet .
The ballet school remained in the city until the blockade of Leningrad was lifted in 1944 and plans were immediately put forward for a permanent ballet and opera theatre in Perm. The ballet school was officially opened on April 2, 1945 and has remained on the same site throughout its history, with student performances being staged at the Perm ...
In 1738, he became ballet master and head of the new ballet school, launching the advanced study of ballet in Russia, and winning the patronage of elite families. [5] France provided many leaders such as Charles Didelot in St. Petersburg (1801–1831), Jules Perrot (1848–1859) and Arthur Saint-Léon (1859–1869).
After graduating from the Leningrad Choreographic School, he was sent with a group of dancers to Ukraine to promote ballet art. In 1926–1929 he was a soloist and choreographer at both Kharkiv and Kyiv ballet. In 1927, while working in the theater, he organized a ballet studio in Kiev, where he taught the basics of classical, duet and folk dance.
The school's founder director was the French ballet master and teacher Jean-Baptiste Landé and the purpose of creating the school was to train young dancers to form the first Russian ballet company. As the Imperial Russian Ballet, the company premiered numerous ballets by choreographer Marius Petipa. A number of his ballets now form the basis ...