Born:28-Nov-1949 Birthplace: Sakhalin Island, Russia Died:18-May-1995 Location of death:West Hollywood, CA[1] Cause of death: Illness [2] Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean)
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation:Dancer
Nationality: United States Executive summary: Bolshoi, ABT ballet dancer
Bolshoi ballet dancer, who was forbidden for years from traveling abroad for fear of defection. Ultimately when he was permitted overseas in 1979, he did indeed defect, with American authorities holding his wife, ballerina Lyudmilla Vlasova, for three days at the airport, not believing he would actually want to return. After defection he joined the American Ballet Theater, until a disagreement with fellow Bolshoi defector Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1982 led to Godunov's firing. After this point his heart was no longer in his dancing. Godunov died from complications of his alcoholism and hepatitis in 1995.
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AKA Boris Alexandrovich Godunov