Following a Dream Across International Boundaries

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Principal Roles

Choreographer
MICHAEL SHANNON was known for his artistry, ability to dance any role, and the amazing height of his leaps which elicited gasps from audiences and the attention of Bolshoi leaders, and ballet legend Madame Sophia Golovkina who awarded him a full scholarship, stipend, and housing at age-16, and the approval of the Ministries of Culture and Education with a visa to enter the USSR and become the first American graduate of the Moscow Choreographic Ballet Institute Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 1989, and featured Star of the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre under revered Artistic Director & Chief Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich.
Lancelot in
​​"ARTHUR"
David Bintley CBE
Prince Siegfried in
​​"SWAN LAKE"
Sir Peter Wright
Basil in
"DON QUIXOTE"
Vladimir Vasiliev
Basil in
"DON QUIXOTE"
​Mikhail Baryshnikov
Staged by Elena
​Tchernichova
Prince Albrecht
in "GISELLE"
Marius Petipa
Frondosio in
​"LAURENCIA"
Vakhtang Chaboukiani
After Marius Petipa
The Slave in
"LE CORSAIRE"
Michel Fokine
Actaeon in
​"DIANA & ACTAEON"
Agrippina Vaganova
​After Petipa
Prince Albrecht
​"GISELLE"
Jean Corelli & Jules
Perrot After Petipa
The Rose in
"LE SPECTRE
​DE LA ROSE"
Michel Fokine
Mercutio in
"ROMEO AND
JULIET"
John Cranko
Pierre in "THE
​CALVARY HALT"
Marius Petipa
Jean de Brienne
"RAYMONDA"
Marius Petipa
Boris in "THE
​GOLDEN AGE"
Yuri Grigorovich
The Prince in "THE
NUTCRACKER"
Vladimir Vasiliev
Lucien d'Hervilly
The Cavalier
"PAQUITA"
Marius Petipa
Solor in
"LA BAYADERE"
Vakhtang Chaboukiani
After Marius Petipa
Prince Désiré in
"THE SLEEPING BEAUTY"
Rudolph Nureyev
​After Marius Petipa
"SYLVIA
​PAS DE DEUX"
George Balanchine
​Staged by Elena
 Tchnernichova
Franz in
​"COPPELIA"
Arthur Saint-Léon
The Prince in
"CINDERELLA"
Vladimir Vasiliev
Basil in
​"DON QUIXOTE"
Marius Petipa
Prince Albrecht
"GISELLE"
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Staged by Elena
​Tchernichova
James in
"LA SYLPHIDE"
August Bournonville
J. Offenbach's
"LE PAPILLON"
"THE BUTTERFLY"
Marie Taglioni
Prince Siegfried
"SWAN LAKE"
Yuri Grigorovich
Prince Siegfried
​"SWAN LAKE"
​Lev Ivanov
​After Petipa
"LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS" 
"RITE OF SPRING"
Vaslav Nijinsky
Colas in
"LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE"
Sir Frederick Ashton
The Poet in
"LES SYLPHIDES"
"CHOPINIANA"
Michel Fokine
The Prince in
"THE NUTCRACKER"
Yuri Grigorovich
Count Alexis Vronsky
"ANNA KARENINA"
Lila Partay
The Prince in
"THE ​NUTCRACKER"
David Wilcox
Philippe in
"FLAMES OF PARIS"
Vasily Vainonen
Léon in
"MADAME
​BOVARY"
Michael Shannon
Prince Désiré in
"THE SLEEPING BEAUTY"
Marius Petipa
"LE PAPILLION
PAS DE DEUX"
George Balanchine
​Staged by Elena
​Tchnernichova​
Apollo in
​"APOLLO"
George Balanchine
Staged by Elena
​Tchnernichova
Franz in
​"COPPELIA"
Alexander Gorsky
Shannon was awarded a Silver Medal at the Paris International Ballet Competition in 1993 headed by Jury Chairman and Bolshoi Ballet legend Galina Ulanova.  The  Austrian Embassy honored him for winning the first medal of its kind in the history of dance in Austria.  He was subsequently awarded a Silver Medal in the First Rudolph Nureyev Competition in Budapest Hungary in 1994.
​Concert Featuring Lyubov Kunakova
Kirov Ballet Prima Ballerina Absoluta
and Silver Medalist Michael Shannon
Website:  http://kino.t7.ru/id1004411​
Production:  1995 . GTRK "T7"
Duration:      01:15:10

Russian television production honoring and featuring Mariinsky Theatre Prima Ballerina, LYUBOV KUNAKOVA, People's Artist of Russia, and Laureate of International Competitions, dancing J. Offenbach's "Butterfly" and other works with Bolshoi Ballet star and Laureate of international Ballet Competitions, MICHAEL SHANNON (Silver Medals in Paris under the legendary Jury Chairman Galina Ulanova and in the First Rudolph Nureyev Competition in Budapest.

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