Background
Mikhail Stepanovich Chernyshov was born on November 8, 1906, in the Nizhnyaya Veduga, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
1957
People's Artist of the RSFSR
choreographer folklorist ballet dancer
Mikhail Stepanovich Chernyshov was born on November 8, 1906, in the Nizhnyaya Veduga, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Stepanovich studied at the ballet faculty of the Institute of Theatre Art (technical school, 1920-1922, teachers K.A. Trunov, Yu.A. Barto). He graduated from the Voronezh musical school (1929, teacher V.V. Smoltsov). At the same time dancer of the Operetta Theatre (Moscow).
Mikhail Stepanovich worked at the Voronezh Bolshoi Soviet Theatre (1918-1920). He was an artist with the Moscow Bolshoi Theater (1929-1937). Mikhail Stepanovich was a teacher at the choreographic drama studio of Yu. Zavadsky (1937-1939, Rostov-on-Don). He was a ballet master at the Pyatigorsk Musical Comedy Theatre (1939-1941), a ballet dancer with the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater (1942-1943).
Inspector for inspection and assistance and at the same time a member of the South-Western Front Front's front brigade (1943). Dancer, ballet master of the K.I. Massalitinov Voronezh State Academic Russian Folk Choir (from 1943, with breaks). Mikhail Stepanovich was a ballet master of the Moscow Philharmonic (1948-1949), a ballet master of the Volga Russian Folk Chorus (1954-1959, Kuibyshev). T
He was a teacher and artistic director of the Voronezh Choreographic School (1959-1968). Among the pupils there is Val. Dragavtsev, V. Sychev, V. Babai, G. Zakharov, A. Bondarenko, P. Popov, and many others.
Among the productions: "The Cadril of the Chizhovsky Sloboda", "The Duckling of the Meadow", "The Usmansky Dance", "The Circle Cadril", "The Lady" and many others. Performed productions in Moscow, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Pyatigorsk, Orenburg, and other cities.
His compositions: "Meadow Duckling" (Russian Folk Dances, Moscow, 1957); "Usmansky Dance" (Dances, Moscow, 1961); "Pokhvistnevskaya Kadril" (Folk Plot Dances, Moscow, 1967); "And I am in the Meadow" (Folk Dances, Moscow, 1968).