Background
GORSKIY, Aleksandr was born on August 18, 1871.
ballet dancer ballet-master and teacher
GORSKIY, Aleksandr was born on August 18, 1871.
1889 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Theater College.
From 1889 ballet dancer at Saint St. Petersburg Mariinskiy Theater. Performed classical, character and grotesque parts: the Prince in Spyashchaya krasavitsa (Sleeping Beauty). The Satyr in ”Tannhaeuscr”.
Chinese dance in Shchelkunchik (Nut-Cracker), et cetera 1896 appointed instructor at Moscow Bolshoy Theater. From 1904 taught at Moscow Choreographic College.
Influenced creative development of many eminent ballet-masters. Arranged new original versions of ballets: ’’Don Quixote” (1900). Lebedinoye ozero (Swan Lake).
Puni’s Konyok-Gorbunok (Hunch-Backed Horse) (1901). Koreshchenko’s Volshebnoye zerkalo (Magic Mirror) (1905). Raymonda (1908); Adam’s ’The Corsair” (1912).
His main new ballets are: Doch’ Guduly (Gudula’s Daughter) to Simon’s score (1902). Arends’ Salambo (1910). Lyubov’ bystra (Love Is Fleet) to music by Grieg (1913).
Evnika i Petroniy (Eunice and Petronius) to music by Chopin (1915), et cetera Worked on the ballet Sten’ka Razin (after Glazunov) (1918). Devised new choreographic arrangements of several classical ballets, including ’’The Nut-Cracker” (1919) and ’’Swan Lake,” et cetera