Victor Gsovsky

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Victor Gsovsky ( Russian Виктор Иванович Гзовский , Wiktor Ivanovich Gsowski ); (Born January 12, 1902 in Saint Petersburg , † March 14, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a Russian ballet dancer , choreographer , ballet master and dance teacher.

Life

Gsovsky studied with Yevgenia (Eugenia) Sokolova and made his debut at the age of 18. In 1924 he married the dancer Tatyana Issachenko . In the same year or a year after, he emigrated to Germany and went to Berlin with his wife , where he was ballet master at the State Opera from 1925 to 1928 after being appointed by Max Terpis . He also performed as a dancer and choreographed opera ballets. In 1928 Gsovsky and his wife opened a ballet school in Berlin.

From 1930 to 1933 he worked as a film choreographer for UFA . In 1937 he went to London to the Markova - Dolin Ballet. From 1938 he taught in Paris; Colette Marchand , Irène Skorik and Violette Verdy were among his students at the time . In 1945 he staged the second act of Swan Lake at the Paris Opera . From 1946 to 1947 he directed the Ballets des Champs Elysées, for which he directed La Sylphide , among others . After a short detour in 1947 to the London Metropolitan Ballet, where he choreographed dances from Galanta and Pygmalion , he became ballet master at the Ballets des Champs Elysées in 1948.

In 1950 he went to the Bavarian State Opera as a ballet director . He stayed there until his return to Paris in 1952. Between 1957 and 1961 he returned to Germany for the Summer Academy of Dance, first to Krefeld and later to Cologne.

His next position as ballet master was from 1964 to 1967 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . He ended his professional life from 1967 to 1973 as a ballet master at the Hamburg State Opera .

literature

  • Horst Koegler : Gsovsky, Victor . In: Friedrich's Ballet Lexicon. Friedrich, Velber 1972, pp. 239-240.
  • Horst Koegler, Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, pp. 190f.
  • Otto Schneider (ed.), Riki Raab (collaborators): Gsovsky, Victor. In: Tanzlexikon. Schott, Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-7957-2800-2 , pp. 206-207.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viktor Gsovsky on various occasions in German-language literature
  2. ↑ according to Friedrich's ballet lexicon not until 1925, according to Schott dance lexicon in 1924
personal data
SURNAME Gsovsky, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гзовский, Виктор Иванович (Russian); Gsowski, Viktor Ivanovich; Gsovsky, Viktor (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1974
Place of death Hamburg