The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1738 during the reign of Empress Anna, the academy was known as the Imperial Ballet School until the Soviet era, when, after a brief hiatus, the school was re-established as the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute. In 1957, the school was renamed in honor of the pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova, who cultivated the method of classical ballet training that has been taught there since the late 1920s. Many of the world's leading ballet schools have adopted elements of the Vaganova method into their own training.
2 Rossi Street at the beginning of the 20th century
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Michel Fokine
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Michael Fokine was a Russian choreographer and dancer.
Fokine costumed for the role of Lucien d'Hervilly, in Marius Petipa's 1905 production of the ballet Paquita
Fokine as the spectre in a 1914 production of the Ballets Russes' Le Spectre de la rose
Fokine directing the rehearsals of the ballet Aphrodite in 1919