Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
No
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Kirov Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
Company
Leningrad State Academic Vaganova Choreographic Institute
Sources
  • Marilyn J La Vine (c) 2007 New York

Student performance

26 November 1956

Nureyev performed extracts from these works in a school performance before an audience of teachers and other students.

The extracts were:

The Red Poppy – pas de trois

Esmeralda – Acteon’s variation

Works

The Red Poppy

Choreography: Leonid Lavrovsky

Music: Reinhold Glière

Performance role: dancer

Other performers: Alexander Shavrov,
Nikita Dolgushin

Esmeralda

Choreography: Vakhtang Chabukiani, Agrippina Vaganova

Music: Cesare Pugni

Performance role: Acteon