Nikita Dolgushin / Choreographer. Ballet coach

Nikita Dolgushin was born in 1938 in Leningrad.
He graduated from the Russian Ballet Academy named after Vaganova in 1959 (student of Mikhail Mikhailov and Alexander Pushkin).
He danced with the Kirov Theatre in 1959-1961, the Novosibirsk Theatre in 1961- 1966.

In 1968-83, he was a Principal Dancer in the Moussorgsky Theatre (now the Mikhailovsky Theatre). In 1983-2001, he headed the department of Choreography of the St.Petersburg Conservatory and was the principal choreographer of the Ballet and Opera Theatre of the Conservatory.

The artist danced the leading parts in the ballets: La Sylphide (James), Giselle (Albrecht), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Yaroslavnaby Oleg Vinogradov (Prince Igor), The Nutcracker (Prince), Paquita Grand Pas (Soloist), Swan Lake (Siegfried) and others. He staged his own versions of ballets The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, or the Wilis, Les Sylphides, among others.

Since 2007 he has coached principal dancers at the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
In 2008, he performed the role of Pompeius in the ballet Spartacus by George Kovtun.