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Getty picturesThe celebrated Russian ballet choreographer Yuri Grigorovich died at the age of 98.
From 1964 to 1995 described as one of the largest choreographers of the 20th century, he was the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet, which he led with an iron fist.
Grigorovich’s productions of the stone flower, Ivan, the terrible and Romeo and Julia, redefined the Soviet ballet. He was praised for the revival of the male dance and created parts for men and demanded extraordinary strength and art.
A decade after the Bolshevik Revolution was born in 1927 and was penetrated in the traditions of the classic ballet.
His uncle, Georgy Rozai, had studied Nijinsky under the legendary Vaslav, and the young Grigorovich danced as a soloist with the Kirov ballet in Leningrad before turning to choreography.
His farewell to Bolshoi in 1995 in relation to the contracts of the actors led to the first dancers’ first dancers in the theater in its 200-year history. During a planned performance, a dancer appeared to inform the audience that the show was canceled and left a stunned silence.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Bolshoi was instability. Grigorovich moved to Krasnodar to found a new ballet company. In 2008 he returned to the Bolshoi as a choreographer and ballet master.
Grigorovich received the best Soviet and Russian honors, including the title artists of the USSR and the hero of socialist work. His wife, renowned ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova, died in 2008.
His death came on the same day as one of his most famous employees, dancer Yuri Vladimirov at the age of 83.
Valery Gergiev, Head of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theater, told Izvestia Zeitung that Grigorovich was “a legendary figure that will continue to dominate respect and admiration in the coming decades”.