Ruslan Skvortsov

Ruslan Skvortsov

Ruslan Skvortsov as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake. Bolshoi Theatre. 2011
Born Руслан Васильевич Скворцов
(1980-01-31) 31 January 1980
Yelets, USSR (now Russia)
Citizenship Russian Federation
Education Moscow Choreographic Academy
Occupation Ballet dancer
Years active 1998 to present
Employer Bolshoi Theatre
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Awards Meritorious Artist of Russia (2014)

Ruslan Skvortsov (Russian: Руслан Васильевич Скворцов; born 31 January 1980)[1] is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Ruslan Skvortsov was born in Yelets, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, where he received his early training from Elena Timofeyeva,[2] and then studied at the Moscow Choreographic Academy with Vyacheslav Mikhaylov.[3] Upon his graduation in 1998 he joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where he has worked under the tutelage of Valery Lagunov and Nikolai Fadeyechev. In 2001 he was awarded a bronze medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. He was appointed to the rank of principal dancer in October 2009[4] and was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of Russia in April 2014.[5]

With the Bolshoi Ballet Skvortsov has performed in the United States,[6] Canada,[7] Cuba,[8] the United Kingdom,[9] France, the Netherlands, Belgium,[10] Switzerland,[11] Italy, Norway, Japan,[12] South Korea,[13] China, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa[14] and Australia.[15] His guest appearances have included performing Swan Lake[16] at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Giselle[17] at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Asuka[18] at the New National Theatre Tokyo to mark the 60th anniversary of the Asami Maki Ballet.

Repertoire

Filmography

References

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