1. Sergei Yurevitch Filin is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016.
10 Facts About Sergei Filin
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Sergei Filin is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Sergei Filin started dancing at age seven at the V Loktev's Children's Ensemble of Folk Dances.
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Sergei Filin was promoted to the rank of Premier with the Bolshoi Ballet Company in 1990.
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Sergei Filin was a principal dancer with the State Ballet of Georgia and guest soloist with the Vienna State Opera.
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In December 2004, Sergei Filin suffered a severe injury while performing on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre.
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On 17 January 2013, Sergei Filin was attacked with acid by an assailant who cornered him outside of his home in Moscow.
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Sergei Filin suffered third-degree burns to his face and neck.
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Sergei Filin stated that Bolshoi Ballet Company dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko had hired both him and another man called Andrei Lipatov to attack Filin.
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Russia's television news and tabloid journalists surmised that Dmitrichenko was angry when Sergei Filin chose another dancer rather than Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, ballerina Anzhelina Vorontsova to portray Princess Odette, known as the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.