Credited with revitalising male dance, Yuri Grigorovich ruled Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre with an iron fist as its lead ...

Legendary Russian ballet figure Yuri Grigorovich, who was for three decades the lead choreographer at Moscow's famed Bolshoi ...

And yet, The Nutcracker has only recently been connected ... it was staged at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theatre in Leningrad. These productions were created by Igor ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century ...

“An entire era has come to an end,” Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, where he started his career, posted online.

“An entire era has come to an end,” St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, where he started his career, posted online. Grigorovich made his name staging classics such as The Nutcracker, Swan ...

Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, has died at the ...

the Nutcracker and many other ballets. Valery Gergiev, head of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, told Izvestia newspaper that Grigorovich was "a legendary figure who will continue to command ...

For much of a professional career that spanned 80 years, Grigorovich was the artistic powerhouse behind the Bolshoi, which he ...