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Alexei Ratmansky

Russian dancer and choreographer
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Also known as: Aleksey Ratmansky
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Virginia (Gini) Gorlinski was Arts and Culture Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was responsible primarily for subjects related to music and dance but also handled articles concerning Malaysia and...
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Alexei also spelled:
Aleksey
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August 27, 1968, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia] (age 56)
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Alexei Ratmansky (born August 27, 1968, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer known for his exceptional musicality, seemingly limitless energy, and stylistic versatility. As artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet (2004–08), he rescued the company from a financial and artistic quagmire, largely by diversifying its repertoire. Ratmansky grew up in an intellectual household in Kyiv, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.; his mother was a psychiatrist and his father an aeronautical engineer as well as a former champion gymnast. At age 10 he enrolled in the school of the Bolshoi Ballet (now the Moscow State Academy ...(100 of 580 words)

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