Movies: Alexander Shiryaev
- 2004
A Belated Premiere (2004)
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A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation....
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- 1906
Pierrot-artists (1906)
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One of the first Russian animated films, created by choreographer Alexander Shiryaev in the second half of the 1900s....
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- 1906
“Fool’s Dance” from Petipa's Mlada (1906)
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Alexander Shiryaev created “The Fool’s Dance” in Marius Petipa’s 1896 revival of the ballet “Mlada”, with music by Ludwig Minkus, at the Mariinsky Theatre. His innovation of combining high leaps with the characteristic squatting step, prisyadka, w...
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- 1906
Buffon Dance (1906)
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- 1906
Dance With A Ball (1906)
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A girl dances with a ball....
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- 1905
Birds in Flight (1905)
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Experiment in animation: birds flying....
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