ALEXEY MIROSHNICHENKORUSSIA / PERM
Head of the ballet troupe of Perm Opera and Ballet theatre. Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of international competitions (Vaganova-Prix, 1998; “Arabesque”, 2010), laureate of the “Golden Mask” National Theatre Award (2018), laureate of the “Soul of Dance” prize of the Ballet magazine in nomination “Magician of Dance” (2014), laureate of the Perm Government’s Diaghilev Prize (2011), laureate of the 12th Regional Theatre Festival "Magic Curtain" (2013), twice laureate of the Perm Krai Award in the field of culture and art (2014, 2018).
In 1992, he graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Valentin Onoshko) and joined the Mariinsky Theatre’s ballet troupe. In 2002, he graduated from the Academy’s choreography department (studying under Igor Belsky and Georgy Aleksidze) and between 2003 and 2008 he taught at the Academy’s choreography department.
In 1997, he made his debut as the Mariinsky Theatre’s choreographer, putting on a production of Stravinsky’s Les Noces. In 2004, he became repetiteur for William Forsythe’s ballets. In the same year he participated in the Bolshoi Theatre’s Studio of New Choreography, where he staged Ungarische Tänze (The Hungarian Dances) to the music of Brahms. In 2005 at the invitation of the New York Choreographic Institute, he collaborated with the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet. In 2009, NYCB commissioned him to choreograph Shchedrin’s The Lady with the Lapdog.
He has collaborated with Russian musical and drama theatres. In 2002, at the invitation of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, he staged a program of one-act ballets: Roads of Love (Kurt Weill, Joseph Kosma, and Francis Poulenc) and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers (User, Mozart). In 2008, he choreographed dances in the production of The Marriage based on Gogol's novel by Valery Fokin at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Choreographer for the films "The Music That Left Russia" (2002) by Pyotr Troitsky, "Kilometer Zero" (2007) by Pavel Sanaev, and "Matilda" (2017) by Alexei Uchitel.
Winner of special prizes from the “Golden Mask” National Theatre Award for the project Seeing Music (2012, "For research in contemporary choreography") and the project Towards Diaghilev (2013, "For the restoration of the Diaghilev repertoire"). Scriptwriter and presenter of the multimedia video tour "Ballet ABC" (commissioned by the Dance Open International Ballet Festival). Jury member of the fourth season of the television project "The Bolshoi Ballet" (2020) on the Rossiya-Kultura channel.