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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonid Kozlov is a former principal dancer of the Bolshoi and New York City Ballet. He is also a choreographer, and the founder of Kozlov Dance International and Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey. Kozlov started his dance career by training at the Bolshoi Ballet School at age 12. He later joined the Bolshoi company and became a principal dancer with performances in Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, Le Corsaire, The Stone Flower, Spartacus, The Sleeping Beauty, and La Bayadere. Kozlov met his former wife, Valentina Kozlova - an apprentice, in 1973 at the ballet Paquita during Bolshoi's tour in America. They married later that year. He and Kozlova decided to defect together on September 16, 1979, when they walked out of a garage door at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles

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