Vladimir Dokoudovsky
Born: May 13, 1919, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Nationality: U.S. citizen
PROFESSIONAL
TRANING
Dance with Olga Preobrejenska "L'Ecole de Beaux Arts" Music with
Ekatherina Alexieva. Took classes with Bronislova Nijinska, Lubov Tchernicheva,
George Balanchine, Anatol Vilzak, Ludmila Sholar, Pierre Vladimiroff, Anatol
Oboukhov, Michael Mordkin.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1st Prize in 1st Dance competition "Concours International de la Dance"
in Paris, France, 1934.
PROFESSIONALENGAGEMENTS AS A DANCER
| 1934-1935 | - |
1st soloist -Opera De Monte Carlo |
| 1936 | - |
1st dancer-Ballet Russe de I'Opera comique de Paris |
| 1937 | - |
1st dancer-National Polish Ballet (under dir. B. Nijinska) |
| 1938 | - |
Soloist-Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (under dir. L. Massine) |
| 1939-1940 | - |
Soloist- Mordkin Ballet (U.S.A.) |
| 1940-1941 | - |
Soloist-Ballet Theatre (U.S.A.) |
| 1942-1950 | - |
1st dancer-DeBasil original Ballet Russe Guest star in several companies- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo,Danish Royal Ballet, etc. |
FILMS
Graduation Ball and Swan Lake. Ballet sequence in film, the Revolt of the
Phantom. Choreographed ballet sequence in The Greenwich Village Story.
TV
With Jeanmaire on Toast of the Town. The Peruvian in Gaite Parisienne with
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Featured on "Omnibus" in Agnes de Mille's
History of the Ballet.
DANCED: (Partial List)
"Swan Lake" (Prince); "Les Sylphides" (Poet); "Giselle"
(Albrecht); "Spectre de la Rose"; "Paganin" (Paganini);
"Petroushka" (Petroushka); "Firebird" (Ivan Tzarevich);
"Symphonie Fantastique" (Poet); "Prince Igor" (Warrior);
"Gaite Parisienne" (Peruvian); ''Blue Bird'' in "Sleeping Beauty";
"Cotillon" (Host); "Carnival" (Arlequin); "Scheherazade"
(Golden Slave); "Coq d'Or" (King Dodon); "Graduation Ball"
(Cadet); "Les Presage" (Hero); "Good Humored Ladies",
"Choreartium'', "Jeux d' Enfants'' (Thevoyager); "The Recall"
(The Young Man); "Francesca Da Rimini" (Paolo).
PROFESSIONAL
ENGAGEMENTS AS A BALLET MASTER, ETC.
Choreographer-Original Ballet Russe- 1950-1951 Ballet Master; (+Regisseur-)
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo - 1952-1953 Director-Empire State Ballet - 1969-1970
Guest Director; Choreographer-Kansas City Civic Co., Des Moines Civic Ballet,
SchenectadyBallet Co., etc.
LIST OF CREATED BALLETS
| Year | Title | Composer | Designer | Company |
| 1945 | Can-Can | Offenbach | Orig. Ballet Russe | |
| 1946 | Baba Yaga | Rimsky-Korsakov | Larionoff | Orig. Ballet Russe |
| 1947 | Shoe-Shine | Shostakovich | Orig. Ballet Russe | |
| 1950 | Femmes d' Alger | Horovitz | Kirsta | Orig. Ballet Russe |
| 1956 | The Abyss | Tcherepnine | Aninkoff | Dokoudovsky Ballet |
| 1956 | Spring Symphony | Schumann | Dokoudovsky | Dokoudovsky Ballet |
| 1957 | Girls School | Lumbye | Dokoudovsky | Schenectady Ballet |
| 1959 | Magic Hat | Rossini | Dokoudovsky | Ballet Arts Ballet |
| 1964 | Colors | Childs | NYC Education | |
| 1965 | Prometheus | Skriabine | Scott | Ballet Arts Ballet |
| 1966 | Symphony | Shostakovich | Dokoudovsky | Ballet Arts Ballet |
| 1967 | The5 Positions | Grieg | Dokoudovsky | Des Moines Ballet |
| 1967 | Concerto | Grieg | Ballet Arts Ballet | |
| 1968 | Peter and the Wolf | Prokofiev | Dokoudovsky | Ballet Arts Ballet |
| 1969 | If, When, What? | Offenbach | Empire State Ballet | |
| 1970 | The Outing | Strauss | Van Wickler | Kansas City Ballet |
RESTAGED:
"Graduation Ball"; "Swan Lake"; "Giselle"; ''Scheherazade";
"Prince Igor"; "Les Sylphides"; "Sleeping Beauty'';
"Carnaval". "Giselle";
"Paganini", "Spectre de la Rose"; "Petroushka";
for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Kansas City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet Theatre,
New York Theatre Ballet, etc.
ORAL HISTORY: -(PUBLIC LIBRARY)
54 Hours of Interview-covering the years between 1919-1952.
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS AS A TEACHER
| 1934 | - |
Taught beginner and intermediate classes for Olga Preobrajenska |
| 1950 | - |
Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall |
| 1977 | - |
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| 1965 | - |
Ballet Theatre School |
| 1966 | - |
American Ballet Theatre |
| 1971 | - |
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| 1977 | - |
Opened
"New York Conservatory of Dance" with Patricia Heyes Dokoudovsky Guest teacher for numerous dance organizations. |
*NOTE: More than three (3) thousand people have taken classes with me,
the best known are:
| Sonia Arova | Tatiana Grantzeva
|
Ali Pourfaruk |
| Sono Osato | Valerie Harper | Andre Prokovsky |
| Pascal Benicho | Patricia Heyes | Istvan Rabovsky |
| Felix Blaska | Ben Hazard | Janice Rule |
| Mirelle Briane | Kim Hightan | Inge Sand |
| Oleg Briansky | Renee Jeanmaire | Dirk Sanders |
| Leslie Caron | Alexandre Kalioujny | Job Sanders |
| Eugene Collins | Nora Kovach | Nancy Shaffenburg |
| Melinda Cordell | Natasha Krassaovska | Marina Svetlova |
| Cristine Dakin |
Toni Lander | Barbara Valzak |
| Jacques D'Amboise | Harold Lang | Edward Villella |
| AIexandra Danilova | Michael Messerer | Andrea Vodehnal |
| Marilyn D'Honau | Veronika Mlaker | Lesley Ann Warren |
| Gemze DeLappe | Elisa Monte | Craig Williams |
| Agnes DeMille | Barbara Monte | Gayle Young Home |
| Jose Ferrer | Liliane Montevecchi |
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| Royes Fernandez | Bruce Marks | |
| Luis Fuente | Aiko Ohtaki | |
| Helen Gallagher | Roland Petit |