| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Moiseyev, Igor Alexsandrovich |
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( ´g r ly ksän´drvch mois ´y v) (KEY) , 1906–2007, Russian dancer and choreographer. He was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre (1924–29) and ballet master there (1930–39). In 1937 he organized the Moiseyev Dance Company, a ballet-trained folk dance group, which later toured Europe, the United States, and China. He choreographed such dances as The Partisans, Pictures from the Past, and Dance of Fools, as well as ballets, such as Khatchaturian’s Spartacus for the Bolshoi Ballet. |
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