Mikhail Lavrovsky

Mikhail Lavrovsky (2017)

Mikhail Leonidovich Lavrovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Лавро́вский; born 29 October 1941) is a Russian former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Biography[]

Lavrovsky was born on 29 October 1941 in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, to a family of respected dancers. His father, Leonid Lavrovsky, was a well-known choreographer, while his mother, , was a ballerina. He was trained at the Moscow Choreographic School where his teachers were and  [ru], and graduated from there in 1961. Three years later, Yuri Grigorovich, a well-known choreographer and teacher, arrived at the Bolshoi. He gave Lavrovsky the role of the prince in The Nutcracker, and later on Lavrovsky appeared in such roles as Ferkhad in , as well as in Spartacus for which he won the Lenin Prize.^[1]

In 1977 he was promoted to principal dancer and became a choreographer at the . The same year, he was awarded the State Prize and was appointed as an artistic director of the Paliashvili Theatre from 1983 to 1985. Prior to that, in 1980, he became a ballet master after graduating from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, where he served till 1988. In 2001, awarded him their Soul of the Dance award.^[1]

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