Ivan Vasiliev
Ivan Vladimirovich Vasilyev (Russian: Иван Владимирович Васильев; born January 9, 1989 in Tawritschanka, Primorsky Krai, Soviet Union ) is a Russian ballet dancer.
Career
He received his first ballet lessons at the Dnepropetrovsk Ballet School in Ukraine. At twelve, he moved to the State Ballet Academy in Minsk, where he remained until his graduation in 2006. In the same year he was invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet in Russia's capital as a solo dancer. His debut in Moscow he made as Basilio in Don Quixote. May 2010 he was appointed Principal Dancer. His move from the Moscow Ballet to Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in the autumn of 2011 made worldwide headlines. In the same year he made his first appearance as a guest dancer with the American Ballet Theatre ( ABT) in New York City on. Since September 2012, he is a Principal Dancer with the ABT. In May 2013 he announced that he wants to leave the Mikhailovsky.
Awards and Honors
- 2004: International Ballet Competition Varna ( bronze medal )
- 2005: International Moscow Ballet Competition ( gold medal )
- 2006: Arabesque Ballet Competition in Perm -96 ( gold medal )
- 2006: International Ballet Competition Varna ( Grand Prix)
- 2006: Triumph Youth Prize
- 2008: British Critics' Circle National Dance Awards in the category " Spotlight"
- 2009: Prix Benois de la Danse
- 2010: International Dance Open Festival ( Mr. Virtuosity )
- 2011: International Dance Open Festival ( Grand Prix)
Filmography
- 2010: Les Flammes De Paris ( Philip ) DVD and Blu- ray production of the Bolshoi Theatre and Bel Air Classiques, Harmonia Mundi / Eppelheim, choreography by Alexei Ratemansky