Biography
Born in Saint-Petersburg. In 2000, on completing his training at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet he joined the corps de ballet of the Maryinsky Theatre. He would later join the Oleg
Vinogradov Universal Ballet Company (Seoul). In 2002, Vladimir Malakhov invited him to become a member of the Berlin Staatsoper Ballet Company. In 2003, he became premier dancer of this
Company.
In the 2006/07 season, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company. He rehearsed under Boris Akimov.
Repertoire
With the Oleg Vinogradov Universal Ballet Company
Solor (La Bayadere)
Espada (Don Quixote)
Prince Siegfried (Swan Lake)
Nutcracker Prince (Nutcracker)
In Berlin
Pas de trois, Benno, Rotbart, Prince Siegfried (Swan Lake in a version by Patrice Bart)
Count Albrecht (Giselle in a version by Patrice Bart)
Solor (La Bayadere in a version by Vladimir Malakhov)
Nutcracker Prince (Nutcracker in a version by Patrice Bart)
Title role (Onegin to music by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky. Choreography by John Cranko)
Prince (Cinderella. Choreography by Vladimir Malakhov)
Soloist (Nostaligia for Unter den Linden to music of Mozart and Schuman; choreography by Uwe Sholts)
Soloist (Ballet Imperial to the music of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky; choreography by George Balanchine)
Soloist (This-; choreography by Christian Spuck)
Wotan (Ring um den Ring to the music of Richard Wagner; choreography by Maurice Bejart)
Chevalier de Grieux (Manon to the music of Georges Massenet; choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan)
Title role (Igor Stravinsky’s Apollo; choreography by George Balanchine)
Prince Desire (The Sleeping Beauty; choreography by Marius Petipa in a version by Vladimir Malakhov)
He was the partner of Diana Vishneva, Polina Semionova.
With the Malakhov and Friends project he participated in gala concerts at the Megaron Concert Hall, Athens, and took part in the International Festival of Ballet in Japan.
In a duet with Polina Semionova, he took part in a gala Don Quixote, presented by the Bolshoi Theatre as part of the Maya Plisetskaya Jubilee celebrations (2005, State Kremlin Palace).
Repertoire at the Bolshoi
2006
Toreador (Don Quixote, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by Alexei Fadeyechev)
Evil Genius (Swan Lake in a second version by Yuri Grigorovich) - he made his debut in this role on tour in London
Soloist Second Movement (Symphony in C to music by Georges Bizet; choreography by George Balanchine) - he made his debut in this role on tour in London
The Baron (Gaite Parisienne to music by Jacques Offenbach arranged by Manuel Rosenthal; choreography by Leonide Massine)
Prince Siegfried (Swan Lake in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Soloist (Concerto Barocco to music by Johann Sebastian Bach; choreography by George Balanchine)
2007
Soloist (Serenade to music by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky; choreography by George Balanchine) - was among the creators of this ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre
Soloist in Dance with Fans (Le Corsaire Adolphe Adam; choreography Marius Petipa, production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka) - creator of the
role
Class concert (Music by different composers; choreography by Asaf Messerer)
Artynov (Anyuta to music by Valery Gavrilin; choreography by Vladimir Vasiliev )
2008
Slave (La Bayadere. Choreography by Marius Petipa,Yuri Grigorovich production)
Count Albrecht (Giselle in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Jean de Brienne (Raimonda. Yuri Grigorovich production)
2009
Lucien d'Hervilly (Paquita. Staging and new choreographic version by Yuri Burlaka)
Prince Fortune (The Sleeping Beauty)
Omega (Emiliano Palmieri's Zakharova Super Game. Choreography by Francesco Ventriglia) - creation
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