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The most significant features of the khorovod dance is to hold hands or the little finger of the partners while dancing in a circle. The circle dance symbolised in ancient Russian culture "moving around the sun" and was a pagan rite with the meaning of unity and friendship. The female organizer or leader of the dance was called khorovodnitsa.
The Steamroller and the Violin (Russian: Каток и скрипка, translit. Katok i skripka), is a 1961 featurette directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of the unlikely friendship of Sasha (Igor Fomchenko), a little boy, and Sergey (Vladimir Zamansky ...
Yablochko (Russian: Яблoчко "little apple") is a chastushka-style folk song and dance, traditionally presented as a sailors' dance. The choreographed version of the dance first appeared in the 1926 Reinhold Glière ballet The Red Poppy [ 1 ] and from there is known in the West as the Russian Sailors Dance .
Russian folk dance concert performed by the dance ensemble Gzhel Russian folk dance ( Russian : Русский народный танец ) is an important part of Russian culture . Some of the unique characteristics suggest that many elements were developed by the early Russian population.
Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker and annual North American tours evolved out of the 1989-92 “Glasnost Festival” created by theatrical producer Akiva Talmi. [1] [2] [3] The International Glasnost Festival Tours, starting in 1988, featured soloists from the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, National Ballet of Czechoslovakia and more companies of Russian Federation countries.
Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Riga, in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, now known as Latvia. [5] [6] His parents were ethnic Russians: his mother was Alexandra (a dressmaker; née Kiselyova) and his father was Nikolay Baryshnikov (an engineer).
Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova or Bestemyanova [1] (Russian: Наталья Филимоновна Бестемьянова, [2] born 6 January 1960) [3] is a Soviet and Russian former competitive ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union.
Kamarinskaya (Russian: камаринская) is a traditional Russian folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's composition of the same name. Glinka's Kamarinskaya , written in 1848, was the first orchestral work based entirely on Russian folk song and to use the compositional principles of that genre to ...