ALEXEY RASTORGUEV
RUSSIA / PERM

Artistic director of the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Theatre.

Choreographer, dancer, teacher.

In 1996, he graduated from the Perm State Choreographic College (class of Alexander Sakharov). On graduation joined the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Theatre. In 2010, he graduated from the Perm State Institute of Culture majoring in choreography (class of Tatyana Kazarinova).

He performed solo parts in all ballets in the theatre's active repertoire and regularly participated in prestigious Russian and international festivals and competitions. As a choreographer, he staged approximately 30 productions for the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Theatre company, and also created productions as a guest choreographer for the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, State Youth Song and Dance Ensemble "Altai." Participant of Vladimir Vasiliev's workshop (2016).

Multiple diploma winner of the Perm Krai Festival of Professional Theatres "Magic Curtain", diploma winner of the International Choreographic Workshop Rudy Dance Lab (Ufa) and the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers (Moscow, 2018). Diploma winner (2014) and laureate (2016, 2018) of the Open Russian Ballet Competition "Arabesque" named after Ekaterina Maximova (Perm). Laureate of the Prize in the field of culture and art named after Russian entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev, winner of the Burkov Award of the Perm City in the field of culture and art “For the best work in theatre, cinematography and on television” (The Overcoat, 2017). For the one-act ballet Through the Eyes of a Clown he was nominated for the Russian National Theatre Award "Golden Mask" (2015). Participant of the Bolshoi Ballet television project on the Kultura TV channel (2020). Choreographer for the film She Dances (directed by Oksana Degtyareva, Russia, 2024). Winner of the “Soul of Dance” prize from Ballet magazine in the “Knight of Dance” category (2025).