Throwback Thursday and Oleg Briansky
A prolific dancer, teacher, director and choreographer, Oleg
Briansky was born in Brussels. He received his training from Leonide Katchourowsky and began his
professional career with Roland Petit at the Ballet de Paris. He went on to dance with many other companies
including the London Festival Ballet
and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
He founded the Brainsky Saratoga Ballet Center, a
summer program for ballet in Saratoga Springs, New York. He taught for many
other dance companies and schools including the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Universal
Ballet Company, and from 1990-1991 he was associate director of the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington,
D.C.
He has performed
character roles such as Drosselmeyer in the Nutcracker
and Madge in La Sylphide and has
restaged many works that remain in the repertory of both national and regional
companies. He has choreographed works such as Country Moon, A Furtive Tryst
and Death and the Lumberjack.
Oleg Briansky served as artistic director for the film The Children of Theatre Street, a
documentary on the Vaganova Choreographic Institute in Leningrad. It was
nominated for an Academy Award in in 1978. He translated the books Classes in Classical Ballet by Asaf
Messerer and One Hundred Classes in Classical Ballet
by Vera Kostrovitskaya.In 1994 he received the Nijinsky Award for his ballet, Scheherazade, in honor his efforts
to educate audiences about the life of
Nijinsky.
Oleg Briansky is currently the President at Briansky
Saratoga Ballet Center.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid #81:
“Oleg Briansky is
an internationally known dancer, director, teacher, translator and coach.”
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Quote
of the Day:
““There is only one thing that makes a
dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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Want to know more about me? Read my interview at Ballet Connections:
umm studied with briansky for 1 year on sab scholership went to audition for sab summer program they took my scholarship away and told my mother what happened she was such a promising dancer. thanks oleg
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