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 performances

1956

Nureyev performed extracts from these works in school performances before an audience of teachers and other students. They were also part of his end of term final examinations.

The known extracts were:

Esmeralda – Acteon’s variation

The Fountains of Bakhchisarai – Solo

Giselle – Act II pas de deux

Chopiniana – pas de deux

Swan Lake – Act III pas de deux

If more detail of the piece by Pushkin becomes available it will be added here.

Works

Esmeralda

Choreography: Vakhtang Chabukiani, Agrippina Vaganova

Music: Cesare Pugni

Performance role: Acteon

Chopiniana

Choreography: Mikhail Fokine

Music: Fryderyk Chopin

Performance role: The Poet

Other performers: Margarita Alfimova