A special card made in memory of
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich
(Russian: Юрий
Николаевич Григорович;
2 January 1927 – 19 May 2025) was a Soviet and Russian
ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and pedagogue who
dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years, especially as
artistic director of the Bolshoi
Ballet from
1964 to 1995. His choreographies of The
Stone Flower, Ivan
the Terrible and Romeo
and Juliet are
said to have "redefined Soviet ballet".
On May 23 2025 the Bolshoi Theatre staged a
performance of the ballet "The Legend of Love" in memory of
the choreographer |