I was so sad to see the news of Igor Petrov’s passing - he seemed a wonderful teacher and mentor. Do you know what happened, I hadn’t even realised he had been ill?
Apologies that this ask got buried. The news of his passing is very tragic indeed, lots of his colleagues and students expressed warm sentiments online and shared fond memories. I thought Xander Parish had an especially well-written post. I don't believe the cause of death has been made public, so I won't be speculating on it.
However, I will share two videos of him teaching in hopes that it will serve as a small tribute to an extremely dedicated and loyal man who gave his all to art and teaching.
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Class at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, during the MT's tour to California. Notable dancers in class include Viktoria Tereshkina, Oksana Skorik, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Timur Askerov, Xander Parish, and Kimin Kim who whips out some seriously impressive consecutive tours.
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And an older class on stage from 2008. Dancers include Diana Vishneva, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Leonid Sarafanov (who is absolutely fabulous here) Daniil Fadeyev, Irma Nioradze, Anton Korsakov and even young Yana Selina