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Alexander Borisovich Godunov (Russian: Александр Борисович Годунов; November 28, 1949 – c. May 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to the United States.
May 19, 1995 · Alexander Godunov, the swashbuckling Russian ballet dancer and movie actor, was found dead yesterday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 45.
May 14, 2024 · Alexander Godunov was a Russian ballet dancer and actor who had a successful career with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the United States during the company’s 1979 engagement in New York City.
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Oct 2, 2018 · One ballet dancer that appears to have been forgotten with the passage of time is Alexander “Sasha” Godunov. Alexander Godunov, born on the 28 th November 1949, Sakhalin Island, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), to Boris Godunov and Lidia Nicholaevna Studentova.
Alexander Godunov was a dancer of handsome stature and blond good looks. He possessed a virtuoso technique and enjoyed a career of glamorous highlights in ballet and film; but his triumphs were...
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May 19, 2000 · Godunov, along with Rudolf Nureyev and former classmate Mikhail Baryshnikov, achieved international fame as one of the world’s premier ballet dancers in the early ’70s. ”There was a mystique...
After graduating he toured with the Moscow Classical Ballet. He joined the Bolshoi in 1971; there he received rave reviews for the lead in "Swan Lake", "Giselle" and other classical and contemporary works. In 1973 he won a gold medal at the Moscow International Competition.
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