Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (Russian: Влади́мир Ви́кторович Васи́льев), (born April 18, 1940) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer from Moscow, Russia. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000. He was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns. Vladimir Vasiliev was named "God of the dance" and is regarded as a classical dancer on the same level as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. At the height of their careers, Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova were the golden couple of Russian ballet. Vladimir Vasiliev
Debra Austin (dancer) Ballet was founded by Weiss in 1997, Austin was hired as a ballet master for the company. Austin married Romanian ballet dancer Marin Boieru in 1992, whom she met while they were both performing with Pennsylvania Ballet. She and her husband both work as ballet masters for the Carolina Ballet. They have two daughters, Olivia and Bianca. Debra Austin (dancer) Debra Austin (born July 25, 1955) is an American ballet dancer who rose to prominence in 1982 when she was promoted to principal dancer at Pennsylvania Ballet, making the first African-American female principal dancer of a major American ballet company.