About Yury Grigorovich
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Григорович; 2 January 1927 – 19 May 2025) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and pedagogue who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years, especially as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995. His choreographies of The Stone Flower, Ivan the Terrible and Romeo and Juliet are said to have "redefined Soviet ballet". Grigorovich's first wife was ballerina Alla Shelest, who danced in the Kirov Theatre pieces that he choreographed, The Stone Flower, and The Legend of Love. He created eight new ballets, often with Virsaladze as scenic designer, and versions of classical ballets, the basis of the Bolshoi repertoire. Grigorovich became artistic director of the Kirov in 1962.
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