Vladimir Vasiliev is extraordinary in a 1960’s video of Goleizovsky’s ballet Leili & Madjnun

Vladimir Vasiliev in magnificent form in this extraordinary document of a fragment of a Kasyan Goleizovsky’s ballet “Leili & Madjnun” which was choreographed for the Bolshoi in 1960.

Kasyan Goleizovsky (1892–1970) Russian dan­cer and cho­reo­grapher. Leader of the exper­i­mental move­ment in Moscow in the 1920s.

Sergei Balasanyan  (1902-1982) Russian composer.

Vladi­mir Vasiliev (1940), Rus­sian bal­let dan­cer. Was prin­cipal dan­cer with the Bolshoi Bal­let, best known for his role of Sparta­cus and for his power­ful leaps and turns.