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
Reid Anderson (dancer) became Director of the Stuttgart Ballet. Anderson returned to Stuttgart Ballet in 1996 as artistic director. He organised the company's tour to New York in 1998. In 1995 the Stuttgart Ballet awarded Anderson the John Cranko Award. He won the 2006 "" (German Dance Prize) in recognition of his work to improve dance in Germany, and in 2009 won the Medal of Merit of Baden-Wurttemburg. Reid Anderson (dancer) Reid Bryce Anderson (born 1 April 1949) is a Canadian ballet dancer, ballet director, and artistic director. He danced with the Stuttgart Ballet before returning as artistic director of the National Ballet