Valery Kovtun

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Valery Petrowytsch Kovtun ( Ukrainian Валерій Петрович Ковтун ; born October 22, 1944 in Jassynuwata , Ukrainian SSR ; † February 3, 2005 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian ballet dancer , ballet master and choreographer .

Life

Valery Kovtun attended the Dnipropetrovsk Theater School from 1959 and then switched to the Ballet School in Kiev, which he graduated in 1965. In 1982 he became a ballet master at the State Institute for Theater Arts in Moscow . On December 24, 1964 he made his stage debut at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater . Between 1965 and 1968 he was a ballet dancer at the Charkow Ballet . In 1968 he became a soloist and between 1985 and 1987 the chief choreographer of the Kiev Opera House. From 1989 to 1998 he was artistic director and chief choreographer of the Kiev Classical Ballet Theater. Between 1998 and 2005 he was chief choreographer of the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Young People. Valery Kovtun lived in Kiev, where he died in 2005 at the age of 60 and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Valery Kovtun on zn.ua of 28 June 1996; accessed on June 17, 2017 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Biography Valery Kovtun on Classical Ballet ; accessed on June 17, 2017 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Short biography Valery Kovtun on calendar.interesniy.kiev.ua ; accessed on June 17, 2017 (Russian)
  4. ^ Short biography Valery Kovtun on the website of the Baikowe cemetery; accessed on June 17, 2017 (Russian)
  5. ↑ a b Short biography Valery Kovtun on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee; accessed on June 17, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kovtun, Valery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovtun, Valery Petrowytsch (full name); Ковтун, Валерій Петрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jassynuwata , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2005
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine