Mikhail Grigorievich Dyskovsky

Background

Mikhail Grigorievich Dyskovsky was born in 1888 in Bronnitsy village in a family of philistines.

Education

He graduated from the Moscow Industrial School (1911, now the Mendeleyev Institute). Then he took up dancing and started to study dance with E. Cecchetti and study dramatic art and directing with P. Olenin, F. Komissarzhevsky, and later with K. Mardzhanov.

Career

Since 1906, he danced at the Moscow Opera (People's House). Mikhail Dyskovsky performed in a private enterprise under the direction of A. Tonnie, the theater of S.I. Zimin (1907). Later Mikhail Grigorievich became the Head of the choreographic part of the Drama Theater of F. Korsch (1909) and of the operetta of the Theater "Hermitage" (1917, Moscow). He was a dancer at the opening of the Voronezh Free Theater in the performance "Russia" (in November 1918, the music of S. N. Vasilenko). He also performed the dances in the operas "Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin, "Mermaid" by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, "Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky, "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi. He was a producer (together with M. Moiseyev) of the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Deliba (1918, the performer of the role of Coppelius).

He was a teacher of the Ballet Department of the Higher Theater Workshops. He was published in the weekly "The Review of the Theaters of Voronezh".

Achievements

• Mikhail Grigorievich Dyskovsky was the choreographer of the Moscow Theresa Theater (1920), the theater "Krivoy Dzhimmi" (1922), "The New Theater of Operetta" (1924), "Moscow Theater of Opera" (1939). He also worked in Tiflis, Kiev, Perm, Khabarovsk, Minsk, Arkhangelsk, Alma-Ata and other cities.