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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Throwback Thursday and Oleg Briansky


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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1 comment:

  1. 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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