Choreographer Vytautas Taranda dies

MOSCOW, March 19 Deputy director of the Imperial Russian Ballet Vytautas Taranda died on March 18, said the executive director of the Imperial Russian Ballet Magomed Kulbuzhev.
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"Unfortunately, yes, yesterday afternoon. “Sudden death,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

There is no information yet about the date and place of farewell and funeral, Kulbuzhev added.

Vytautas Taranda graduated from the Moscow Academic Choreographic School in 1983. He worked at the Bolshoi Theater from 1983 to 1994. In 1994, his brother Gediminas Taranda created the Imperial Russian Ballet.