Henrikas Antano Banis ( lit. Henrikas Banys ; June 26, 1927 , Šiluva , Kaunas County of Lithuania - August 17, 1986 , Vilnius ) - Lithuanian Soviet ballet dancer, tutor, people's artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1965).
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Biography
From 1943 he studied ballet in Šiauliai and Kaunas , later - in the ballet studio at the Opera and Ballet Theater of Lithuania with teacher B. Kelbauskas. At the end of the ballet studio, from 1945 he was an artist in the ballet troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater in Kaunas (later the Opera and Ballet Theater of the Lithuanian SSR in Vilnius).
Since 1971 - tutor-Opera and Ballet Theater of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater ).
In the 1960s he successfully toured abroad, including Turkey , France , Belgium , Bulgaria , Finland , and Asian countries.
Selected Ballet
- Young man ("Chopeniana"),
- Desiree ( Sleeping Beauty ),
- Siegfried ( Swan Lake ),
- Albert ( Giselle ),
- Jean de Brienne ( Raymonda ),
- Frondoso ( Laurencia by Crane ),
- Basil ( Don Quixote of Minkus ),
- Negro ("Scheherazade" at the music. Rimsky-Korsakov),
- Gianchotto (“Francesca da Rimini” to music by Tchaikovsky),
- Ako (Greenbladt's Rigonda ),
- Spartak ( Khachaturian )
- Antanas (“The Bride” of Pacalnis),
- Marius (“On the Seashore” by Yuselyunas ),
- Ugnius (Indron's Audrone),
- Margus (Tiina Auster).
Literature
- Ballet: Encyclopedia. / Ch. ed. Yu. N. Grigorovich. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1981.