Material relating to ballet dancers Valery and Galina Panov
- Date:
- Aug 1974-1983
- Reference:
- PP/ROS/A/2/10
- Part of:
- The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Newspaper articles on 'Panov Party' a party at Hampstead for Galina and Valery Panov to thank the committtee of six women who campaigned for two years for their release from Russia. Ruth Rosen was one of the six committee members and hosted the party at the Rosen home in Hampstead Hill Gardens.
File also contains four photographic contact sheets, dated 7-9 Jan 1983, and prints of various of the images, showing Galina Panov in rehearsals for The Nutcracker ballet, staged by the London Festival Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall (RFH), Jan 1983. Most of the photographs show Galina rehearsing with Ben van Cauwenbergh. There are also photographs of Galina with Valery Panov, of Galina on her own in various poses outside the RFH and of Valery on his own. There is one colour photograph of the rehearsal and a set of colour photographs of Galina posing outside the RFH. Plus Royal Festival programme for The Nutcracker 7 Dec 1982-12 Jan 1983.
Publication/Creation
Aug 1974-1983
Physical description
1 file
Biographical note
Valery Panov was born in 1938 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He studied in the choreographic school named for Agripinna Vaganova in Leningrad. Today it is The Academy of Russian Ballet. He went on to the Moscow Ballet School, and the Leningrad Ballet School, graduating in 1957.
He danced with the Maly Ballet in Leningrad (1957–1964), where he created roles in Lopukhov's Ballad of Love (1959), in Davitashvili's Daphnis and Chloe (1960) and Bolero (1960), and in Boyarsky's Petrushka (1961), Orpheus (title role, 1962), and The Lady and the Hooligan (1962). In 1964 he joined the Kirov, where he remained until 1972. There he created roles in Jacobson's Land of Miracles(1967), Vinogradov's Gorianka(1968), Sergeyev's Hamlet (title role, 1970), and Kasatkina's and Vasiliov's Creation of the World (1971).
Although one of the greatest dancers in Russia, for political reasons Panov came to international attention when, in 1972, he and his second wife, the Kirov ballerina Galina Ragozina, applied for exit visas to Israel. The Panovs were expelled from the Kirov, imprisoned briefly and forbidden from taking class for two years.
They became an international cause. Many artists in the West (including Laurence Olivier) appealed to the authorities on their behalf. Finally, in 1974 the Panovs were allowed to leave Russia. They settled in Israel, although they made frequent guest appearances abroad as a couple. In Israel the Panovs danced with Batsheva Dance Company and Bat-Dor Company from 1974-1977.
Panov was guest choreographer and principal dancer with the Berlin Opera Ballet between 1977 and 1983. There he choreographed several ballets, including Cinderella, Sacre du printemps, The Idiot, and War and Peace. He also staged 'Heart of the Mountainfor the San Francisco Ballet (1976), Scheherazadeand Petrushka for Vienna State Opera Ballet (1981), The Three Sisters for the Royal Swedish Ballet (1983), and Hamlet to music by Shostakovich for the Norwegian National Ballet (1984).
He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders from 1984-1986, for whom he staged Romeo and Juliet and Moves. In 1988 he created Cléopâtre for the Istanbul Devlet Ballet, using a cast of 200. From 1991 he was ballet director of the State Opera in Bonn, Germany where he created Dreyfus—J'accuse.
In 1993 he founded in the Aschdod, Israel Art Centre, a Ballet troupe affiliated with Ballet Academy.
He danced with the Maly Ballet in Leningrad (1957–1964), where he created roles in Lopukhov's Ballad of Love (1959), in Davitashvili's Daphnis and Chloe (1960) and Bolero (1960), and in Boyarsky's Petrushka (1961), Orpheus (title role, 1962), and The Lady and the Hooligan (1962). In 1964 he joined the Kirov, where he remained until 1972. There he created roles in Jacobson's Land of Miracles(1967), Vinogradov's Gorianka(1968), Sergeyev's Hamlet (title role, 1970), and Kasatkina's and Vasiliov's Creation of the World (1971).
Although one of the greatest dancers in Russia, for political reasons Panov came to international attention when, in 1972, he and his second wife, the Kirov ballerina Galina Ragozina, applied for exit visas to Israel. The Panovs were expelled from the Kirov, imprisoned briefly and forbidden from taking class for two years.
They became an international cause. Many artists in the West (including Laurence Olivier) appealed to the authorities on their behalf. Finally, in 1974 the Panovs were allowed to leave Russia. They settled in Israel, although they made frequent guest appearances abroad as a couple. In Israel the Panovs danced with Batsheva Dance Company and Bat-Dor Company from 1974-1977.
Panov was guest choreographer and principal dancer with the Berlin Opera Ballet between 1977 and 1983. There he choreographed several ballets, including Cinderella, Sacre du printemps, The Idiot, and War and Peace. He also staged 'Heart of the Mountainfor the San Francisco Ballet (1976), Scheherazadeand Petrushka for Vienna State Opera Ballet (1981), The Three Sisters for the Royal Swedish Ballet (1983), and Hamlet to music by Shostakovich for the Norwegian National Ballet (1984).
He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders from 1984-1986, for whom he staged Romeo and Juliet and Moves. In 1988 he created Cléopâtre for the Istanbul Devlet Ballet, using a cast of 200. From 1991 he was ballet director of the State Opera in Bonn, Germany where he created Dreyfus—J'accuse.
In 1993 he founded in the Aschdod, Israel Art Centre, a Ballet troupe affiliated with Ballet Academy.
(Source of information: Wikipedia)
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