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
Julie Kent (dancer) Herbert Ross' 1987 film "Dancers". In Nicholas Hytner's 2000 film "Center Stage" she played principal dancer Kathleen Donahue, with original choreography by Susan Stroman. Kent and her husband, The Washington Ballet Associate Artistic Director Victor Barbee, are the parents of a son, William Spencer Barbee, and a daughter, Josephine Violet Barbee. Julie Kent (dancer) Julie Kent (born 1969) is an American ballet dancer; she was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993 to June 2015. Her farewell role was Juliet (in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet). In 2016, she was named the artistic director of The Washington Ballet.