Moscow Ballet
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The name Moscow Ballet has commonly been applied to a number of different ballet companies
, these include the:
Ballet company
A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballet, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year are the norm...
, these include the:
- Moscow BalletMoscow Ballet (United States)The Moscow Ballet is an American owned ballet company with dancers based in Moscow and the Ukraine that has produced ballet tours in 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...
, A Russian ballet company. The Moscow Ballet tours annually in the United States with its Great Russian Nutcracker production.
- The Bolshoi BalletBolshoi BalletThe Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies, however it only achieved worldwide acclaim by the early 20th century, when Moscow became the...
, based in MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
has often been referred to generically as "The Moscow Ballet" - A Russian company known as Ballet Moskva ("Ballet Moscow").
- A "Moscow Ballet", founded in 1979, gained publicity in 1987 when a dancer, Andrei Ustinov, defected during the company’s first U.S. tour. Its artistic director is Vyacheslav Gordeyev, previously of the Bolshoi Ballet. Its 1987 tour was seen by an estimated 150,000 people.
- Other dance companies incorporating the word Ballet and either Moscow or Russia(n) include:
- Moscow Stanislavski Ballet, founded in 1929
- Ballet of Russia, founded in 1899
- Ballet Stars of Moscow Theaters with Anna Pavlova, 1888–1931
- Moscow Ballet Theater founded in 1966
- Moscow City Ballet, founded in 1988,
- Moscow Classical Ballet, founded in 1966.
- Moscow Dramatic Ballet, founded prior to 1992
- Moscow Festival Ballet, founded in 1989,
- Moscow Grand Ballet
- National Russian Ballet
- Moscow Folk Ballet
- Russian Festival Ballet, founded in 1989
- Russian National Ballet founded in 1956