Yury Grigorovich

Yury Grigorovich
Юрий Григорович
Grigorovich in 1979
Born(1927-01-02)2 January 1927
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died19 May 2025(2025-05-19) (aged 98)
Moscow, Russia
EducationLeningrad Choreographic School
Occupations
  • Ballet dancer
  • choreographer
  • ballet director
  • pedagogue

Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Григорович; 2 January 1927 – 19 May 2025) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and pedagogue who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years, especially as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995. His choreographies of The Stone Flower, Ivan the Terrible and Romeo and Juliet are said to have "redefined Soviet ballet".

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