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Schedule for Igor Moiseyev State Ensemble of Popular Dance 2022
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra Ensemble: The State Folk Dance Ensemble named after Maestro Igor Moiseev
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (January 21 [O.S. January 8] 1906 – November 2,
2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of
character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more
professionalism and theatrics.
Born in Kiev, the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian
seamstress. His family lived in Paris until he was 8, and throughout his life he
spoke to Western journalists in fluent French. Moiseyev graduated from the
Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the theatre until 1939. His
first choreography in the Bolshoi was Footballer in 1930 and the last was
Spartacus in 1954.
Since the early 1930s, he staged acrobatic parades on Red Square and finally
came up with the idea of establishing the Theatre of Folk Art. In 1936,
Vyacheslav Molotov put him in charge of the new dance company, which has since
been known as the Moiseyev Ballet. Among about 200 dances he created for his
company, some humorously represented the game of football and guerrilla warfare.
After visiting Belarus he choreographed a Belarusian "folk" dance Bulba
("Potato"), which over the years indeed became a Belarusian folk dance.
According to the Encyclopжdia Britannica, Moiseyev's work has been especially
admired "for the balance that it maintained between authentic folk dance and
theatrical effectiveness".
Moiseyev was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1953, Hero of Socialist
Labor in 1976, received the Lenin Prize (1967, for the dance show A Road to the
Dance), four Stalin/USSR State Prizes (1942, 1947, 1952, 1985), Russian
Federation State Prize (1996), was awarded numerous orders and medals of the
Soviet Union, Spain and many other countries. On the day of his centenary,
Moiseyev became the first Russian to receive Order of Merit for the Fatherland,
1st class — the highest civilian decoration of the Russian Federation. In 2001,
he was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal for outstanding contribution to world
music culture. He died in Moscow in 2007.
Schedule for Igor Moiseyev State Ensemble of Popular Dance 2022
Gopak (Hopak) - Igor Moiseyev ballet |
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About This Video 07:15 The State Folk Dance Ensemble named after Maestro Igor Moiseev.
Gopak (Hopak) is a traditional Folk Ukrainian dance. |
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