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.
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
RT @gramilano: Vladimir Vasiliev extraordinary in a 1960’s video of Goleizovsky’s “Scriabiniana”: http://t.co/HTkajXF9 #ballet
RT @gramilano: Vladimir Vasiliev extraordinary in a 1960’s video of a ballet by Goleizovsky: http://t.co/HTkajXF9 #ballet