The Moscow Ballet is a Russian ballet company based in Moscow that has toured the United States during the holiday season since 1993. Stanislav Vlasov, a former principal artist of the Bolshoi Ballet, was the company's first artistic director in 1993. Vlasov's debut in the United States was at Carnegie Hall in 1957.
The company evolved out of the 1989-92 “Glasnost Festival” created by Boston-born theatrical producer Akiva Talmi.
From 1994-1996 th...
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The Moscow Ballet is a Russian ballet company based in Moscow that has toured the United States during the holiday season since 1993. Stanislav Vlasov, a former principal artist of the Bolshoi Ballet, was the company's first artistic director in 1993. Vlasov's debut in the United States was at Carnegie Hall in 1957.
The company evolved out of the 1989-92 “Glasnost Festival” created by Boston-born theatrical producer Akiva Talmi.
From 1994-1996 the Moscow Ballet engaged in a partnership with the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, founded by Natalya Sats. The latter theatre is renowned as the birth place of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and for its dedication to the cultural education of children. Moscow Ballet toured with the full orchestra of the Sats Theater, conducted by Andre Yakovlev.
In 1996 a full length production of Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker was performed at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This was the culmination of Moscow Ballet's relationship with...
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