Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin

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Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (born September 7, 1907 in Mikulino, Tver , Russia , † March 20, 1970 in Leningrad ) was a Russian dancer and ballet master . Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev were his students.

Life

Pushkin was trained at Nikolai Legat's private ballet school . From 1925 to 1953 he was a dancer at the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, where he danced many leading roles in classical ballet . During his early career as a dancer, he began training male dancers. From the 1940s to the late 1960s, nearly all male ballet dancers in the Kirov Ballet were trained by him. From 1932 to 1970 he worked as a teacher at the Leningrad Choreographic School , from which a large number of excellent dancers emerged, u. a. Askold Makarow , Juri Solowjow , Sergei Wikulow and Oleg Winogradow .

Pushkin was married to the Baltic dancer Xenia Jurgenson. He died in St. Petersburg in 1970 ; his grave is in the Bolsheochinskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Awards

  • 1968: Honored Artist of the RSFSR

literature

  • Gennady Albert: Alexander Pushkin. Master Teacher of Dance . Foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov. New York: New York Public Library 2001, ISBN 0-87104-452-8 .
  • Joan Acocella: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints. Essays. New York: Vintage 2008, ISBN 978-0-307-27576-9 , pp. 272-277.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Find a Grave , accessed January 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pushkin, Alexander Ivanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian dancer and ballet master
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikulino, Tver , Russia
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1970
Place of death Leningrad