Igor Moiseyev

Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev ({{lang-ru|????? ????????????? ???????}}; born Kiev, {{OldStyleDate|January 21|1906|January 8}}) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance.

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Kiev - Folk dance

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Moiseyev graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the theatre until 1939. His last choreography in the Bolshoi was Spartacus in 1954. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1953, Hero of Socialist Labor (1976) received the Lenin Prize (1967, for the dance show A Road to the Dance), four USSR State Prizes (1942, 1947, 1952, 1985), Russian Federation State Prize (1996), and awarded numerous orders and medals of Soviet Union, Russia and many other countries.

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Bolshoi Theatre - 1924 - 1939 - Spartacus - 1954 - People's Artist of the USSR - 1953 - Hero of Socialist Labor - Lenin Prize - USSR State Prize - Russian Federation State Prize

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Moiseyev established the Theatre of Folk Art in Moscow in 1936. Among about 200 dances he created for this company, we should mention the ones humorously representing the game of football and guerilla warfare. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Moiseyev's work has been especially admired "for the balance that it maintained between authentic folk dance and theatrical effectiveness".

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Moscow - 1936 - Football - Guerilla warfare - Encyclopedia Britannica

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