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.

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.