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Leonid Lavrovsky (Leonid Mikhailovich Ivanov) was born on 18 June, 1905 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. Discover Leonid Lavrovsky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Leonid Mikhailovich Ivanov
Occupation Ballet dancer, choreographer
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 18 June, 1905
Birthday 18 June
Birthplace Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death 26 November, 1967
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Russia

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1905

Leonid Mikhailovich Lavrovsky (Леонид Михайлович Лавровский; 18 June 1905 – 26 November 1967) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, most famous for choreographing the first full version of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Lavrovsky was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, the son of an industrial worker named Ivanov.

1922

Leonid Ivanov changed his surname to Lavrovsky and graduated in 1922 from the Petrograd Ballet Academy, where he had studied under V.I. Ponomaryov.

He danced with the former Mariinsky Theatre, performing such roles as Siegfried in Swan Lake, Jean de Brienne in Raymonda, and the lead in Chopiniana.

During the same period, Lavrovsky was also a member of the Molodoy Ballet (Young Ballet), an experimental dance collective whose members included the young George Balanchine.

Lavrovsky performed in Fyodor Lopukhov's Dance Symphony along with Balanchine, Alexandra Danilova, and Lidia Ivanova.

Lavrovsky's first major work as a choreographer was the ballet Katerina, which he created for a graduation performance.

The ballet told the story of a serf theater, and was choreographed to music by Anton Rubinstein and Adolphe Adam.

1930

In the late 1930s, Lavrovsky was made the artistic director of the ballet troupe of the Kirov Theatre.

1938

In 1938, the Kirov Theater agreed to stage Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Lavrovsky and Prokofiev struggled for a period over the score and libretto, Lavrovsky eventually persuading the composer to add variations for Romeo and Juliet as well as some other incidental numbers.

1940

The ballet premiered on January 11, 1940.

It featured sets by Pyotr Vilyams and starred Galina Ulanova in the role of Juliet and Konstantin Sergeyev in the role of Romeo.

Lavrovsky's production is widely recognized as one of the greatest examples of the drambalet genre in Soviet Theater.

Lavrovsky's choreography for the ballet is highly dramatic and largely realistic, closely hewing to the motions taken by stage actors and mostly eschewing traditional ballet divertissements.

1944

In 1944, largely owing to the success of Romeo and Juliet, Lavrovsky was made the head ballet master for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

1946

In 1946, he restaged Romeo and Juliet for the Bolshoi.

For this production, which also starred Ulanova, he was awarded the Stalin Prize, first class.

1955

In 1955, Romeo and Juliet was made into a full-length film, starring Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov.

At the Bolshoi, Lavrovsky staged the premiere production of Prokofiev's The Tale of the Stone Flower, a ballet based on a short story by Pavel Bazhov.

1960

His last major work was Paganini, a fantastic re-imagining of the life of Niccolo Paganini set to Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which premiered in 1960.

In the early 1960s, Lavrovsky's style of choreography came under attack for its realism and lack of dance from a group of young choreographers, including the rising star Yury Grigorovich.

Lavrovsky publicly retaliated in his key note address for the All-Union Choreographic Conference held in Moscow in 1960.

1964

Nevertheless, Lavrovsky eventually lost the battle; he was replaced by Grigorovich as artistic director for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1964.

From 1964 to his death in 1967, Lavrovsky served as a professor at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography.

Lavrovsky married former ballet dancer Elena Chikvaidze; their son, Mikhail Lavrovsky, was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Theatre.