Moiseyev, Igor Alexsandrovich

Moiseyev, Igor Alexsandrovich (ē'gur ulyiksän'druvich moisā'yev) [key], 1906–, Russian dancer and choreographer. He was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre (1924–29) and ballet master there (1930–39). In 1937 he organized the Moiseyev Dance Company, a ballet-trained folk dance group, which has since toured Europe, the United States, and China. He has choreographed such dances as The Partisans, Pictures from the Past, and Dance of Fools, as well as ballets, such as Khatchaturian's Spartacus for the Bolshoi Ballet.

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