Viacheslav Samodurov
Viacheslav Samodurov | |
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Choreographer | |
| Years active | 1992 to present |
| Employer(s) | Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre |
Viacheslav Samodurov (
St. Petersburg and the Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam
.
Career
Born in
St. Petersburg. Viacheslav joined the Mariinsky Ballet's corps de ballet in 1992. In 1996, he became a soloist, and won the 1st Prize at the Maya International Ballet Competition, St. Petersburg. He relocated to the UK to join the Royal Ballet in 2003,[1] and left the company in 2010.[2]
He is artistic director of the Yekaterinburg Ballet Company since 2011/12 season. He choreographed Amore Buffo after L’elisir d’amore by
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Arvo Pärt and Francis Poulenc; Curtain to the music of Ottorino Respighi; Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet (revision of the ballet mounted for the Royal Ballet of Flanders in 2014), and The Snow Queen by Artyom Vasiliev.[3]
In 2016 he staged Ondine by Hans Werner Henze at the Bolshoi Theatre.[4]
Selected repertoire
- Solor in La Bayadère
- Conrad in Le Corsaire
- Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
- Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty
- Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake
- Paris in Romeo and Juliet
- The third movement in Symphony in C
- Rubies in Jewels
- Le jeune homme et la mort
Created roles
- Y. Petukhov's Postscriptum
- A. Ratmansky's Fairy kiss
- A. Ratmansky's Poem of ecstasy
Awards
- 1996: 1st prize at the Maya International Ballet Competition, St. Petersburg
- 2014: Golden Mask for the production of Salieri Variations, 2013
- 2015: Golden Mask for the production of Colordelic, 2013
- 2016: the prize «Soul of Dance», Moscow
- 2020: Golden Mask for the production of The King's order, 2018
See also
References
- ^ Bain, David, Viacheslav Samodurov, Principal Dancer, The Royal Ballet, balletassociation.co.uk
- ^ Cappelle, Laura
- ^ Vyacheslav Samodurov // Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
- ^ Ondine // Bolshoi Theatre
External links
- Vyacheslav Samodurov // Bolshoi Theatre