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Nikolay Tsiskaridze

Nikolay Tsiskaridze (Russian: Николай Цискаридзе), also spelled Ziskaridze, is a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ethnically Georgian, he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991. After winning applause of the likes of Galina Ulanova, Marina Semenova and Yuri Grigorovich, he became the youngest person to be named a People's Artist of Russia (2001). He received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 and 2003 and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1999.

Rrpertoire

• Nutcracker Suite : Prince, Poupée Française
• La Belle au bois dormant : Prince Désiré, l'Oiseau Bleu, Fée Carabosse, Prince Fortune
• Romeo and Juliet : Mercutio, a troubadour
• La Sylphide : James
• Swan Lake : Prince Siegfried, Rothbart, the King
• La Bayadere : Solor, Bronze Idol
• The Legend of Love : Ferkhad
• Giselle : Albrecht
• The Spectre of the Rose : Le Spectre
• Raymonda : Jean de Brienne
• La Fille du pharaon : Taor
• La Dame de pique : Hermann
• Notre-Dame de Paris : Quasimodo
• Le Clair Ruisseau : Danseur classique
• Le Songe d'une nuit d'été : Thésée
• Le Corsaire : Conrad

External links

• Page on the Bolshoi Theater official website
• Photographs with Ulanova, Grigorovich and Roland Petit
• Personal site
• Informal site

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