Background
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Bryantsev was born on February 8, 1947.
choreographer screenwriter ballet dancer
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Bryantsev was born on February 8, 1947.
In 1957, Dmitriy Aleksandrovich entered the Leningrad Choreography School, and graduated in 1966 in the class of teacher Nikolai Zubkovsky. In 1966-1977, he was accepted as a soloist in the concert choreographic ensemble "Young Ballet", created in Moscow by Igor Moiseev and Irina Tikhomirnova. He also staged his first ballet miniatures there. In 1968, he entered the ballet department of the Institute of Theatrical Art. In 1976, Dmitriy became a laureate of the All-Union Competition of Choreographers. In 1977, he graduated from the Institute and received a diploma as a director-choreographer.
In 1977-1981 Bryantsev did productions in various troupes: in Leningrad, at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater and in the ensemble "Choreographic Miniatures", in Moscow at the Operetta Theater, in the Concert Ensemble "Classical Ballet", at the Bolshoi Theater. His first eminent production was Tikhon Khrennikov's ballet The Hussar Ballad (1979, Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater),which continued the comic theme of television works.
In 1981, Bryantsev was accepted in the Union of Theater Workers of the USSR. From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a choreographer at the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. On 25 February 1985, he became the chief choreographer of the Moscow Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Dmitry Bryantsev, along with director Oleg Ryaskov, created more than 20 television adaptations of his theatrical productions, the first of which was the adaptation of the ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" in 1985.
Since 1986 he taught at the choreography department of GITIS (now Russian Academy of Theatre Arts) (since 1994 - assistant professor). In 1994 he also became the chief choreographer of the St. Petersburg Chamber Ballet Theater, organized in the same year by Oleg Vinogradov. In 1995 he created the most refined production for this troupe - the The Phantom Ball ballet to the Chopin ‘s music and he received the theatrical award "Golden Mask" for it.