Vassili Vainonen

Vassili Vainonen, born February 21, 1901 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and died March 23, 1964 in Moscow (USSR), is a Soviet dancer, librettist and choreographer, appreciated for the classicism of his works.
Vassili Vainonen studies at the Imperial Ballet School of the Marie Theater. There are fellow students Leontiev and Ponomarev. He joined the troupe of GATOB (future Kirov, ex-Mariinsky) in 1919 until 1938 and excelled above all in character dancing. He began his career as a choreographer in the 1920s, notably with La Valse de Moscou, and was influenced by Fokine and Isadora Duncan.
He choreographs L’Âge d’or (1930) set to music by Chostakovitch, and Flammes de Paris, to music by Boris Assafiev in 1932 about the French Revolution for the Kirov. It takes up the choreography inspired by Marius Petipa from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker in 1934. This version will remain for decades the model of classical ballet.
From 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1958, he was choreographer at the Bolshoi in Moscow with notably Mirandolina (1946) to music by Sergei Vassilenko and Gayaneh by Khachaturian in 1957.

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