Join us for an intermediate/advanced ballet Master Class with world-renowned artist and instructor Valery Lantratov. Open to dancers age 12 to adult. Female dancers should wear a black leotard with pink tights and pink ballet flats. Ballet skirts that fall above the knee are permitted but not required. Male dancers should wear black pants with black or white t-shirt and black ballet flats.
Early bird price (expires July 31): $40 per person
Regular price: $45 per person
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As a graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Valery Lantratov was selected as a first solist with the State Musical Theater K. Stanislavski and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow Stanislavski Ballet). In 1986 Lantratov was awarded the title “Honored Artist of Russia,” and in 1987 Russian president Boris Yeltsin named Lantratov “People’s Artist of Russia,” the Russian Federation’s highest artistic honor. In 1991, he was one of eight soloists in Rudolf Nureyev’s “Farewell Tour” of the United Kingdom.
In 1993, Lantratov began working for the Kremlin Ballet. This same year, Lantratov formed the Russian National Ballet Foundation, a Moscow-based charitable organization with the purpose of promoting the tradition of of the Russian classical ballet and providing aesthetic education. Its creation was supported by the Moscow Actors’ Charitable Foundation under the guidance of Galina Ulanova and the Stanislavsky and Nemorovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theater. In 1997, he was named People’s Artist of the Russian Federation.
Lantratov has appeared in the United States as a guest artist with the Portland Ballet and Boston Ballet and was a guest instructor with the Boston Ballet. From 2000 to 2003 Lantratov directed one of two touring companies for SMI, Inc’s Moscow Ballet. In 2004, he premiered the role of Czar Nicholas II in the ballet Rasputin, staged by the New Imperial Russian Ballet in St Petersburg, Russia, with the production being taken to Moscow in 2015.
Lantratov is the father of Vladislav Lantratov of the Bolshoi Ballet.