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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. Sheriff's Sgt. Bob Minutello told The ...
Oct 2, 2018 · Alexander “Sasha” Godunov, 1949 – 1995. One ballet dancer that appears to have been forgotten with the passage of time is Alexander "Sasha" Godunov. Alexander Godunov, born on the 28th November 1949, Sakhalin Island, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), to Boris Godunov and Lidia Nichol
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...
Alexander Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and actor who was the Bolshoi Ballet's premier danseur until he defected to the United States in 1979. After that, he served as the principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre until 1982. He had a fallout with the company’s director and was dismissed.
2 days ago · 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. The incident became even more dramatic when his wife attempted to return to the Soviet Union;
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He danced with the American Ballet Theater which was at the time being run by his childhood friend and former classmate Mikhail Baryshnikov until Baryshnikov forced him out in 1982. Godunov was crushed and betrayed. He eventually bounced back and started his own dance troupe (which he danced in).
A Bolshoi ballet star for thirteen years, and winner of the Gold Medal at the second Moscow International dance competition in 1973, Godunov defected to the United States inAugust, 1979, during a Soviet dance tour in New York City.
