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Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (Russian: Владимир Викторович Васильев; born 18 April 1940) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000. He was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns.
Leonid Vasiliev (1891-1966), a physiologist and parapsychologist at the University of Leningrad, reported numerous successful experiments in ‘mental suggestion’ (telepathy).
Vladimir Vasiliev, the legendary Bolshoi artist, was briefly in London last Spring to supervise the performances of his Romeo and Juliet at the Barbican Hall.
Jul 26, 2010 · From 1959 to the 1980s, Vasiliev was a hero of Soviet ballet, celebrated for his thrilling leaps, multiple pirouettes, and exhilarating bravura. He created astounding new steps, like a tour en l’air in attitude, setting a new standard for male dancers.
He was quickly promoted to principal dancer and for the next twenty years was the Bolshoi's leading male star. Heroic and dynamic, possessing a then unparalleled virtuoso technique, he came to embody the image of the post-war Bolshoi male dancer.
Vladimir Vasiliev (Владимир Васильев in Russian language), a Russian ballet dancer, was principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns.
For more than ten years Vasiliev was the head of the ballet masters’ department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts/ GITIS. He created a number of bright and picturesque parties and gala concerts, including the one honoring Moscow’s 850th anniversary in the Kremlin.
