Soloists

Denis Klimuk

Denis Klimuk

Principal

 

  • - Winner of the Belarus Presidential Award to Prominent Figures in the World of Art and Culture
  • - Awarded with the Francysk Skaryna Medal in 2011

 

Born in Minsk, Belarus. In 2002, graduated from the from the Belarus State Choreographic College, where he studied under A. I. Kolyadenko. B From 2002 to 2013, was lead soloist at the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus. From 2009 to 2012, was a guest soloist at the Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Tbilisi named after Zacharia Paliashvili. In 2013 and 2014, was a soloist at the Eifman Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg, appearing as Chekist in Red Giselle, Ivan in Beyond Sin, and Karenin in Anna Karenina. From 2014 to 2018, played as a soloist in the ballet troupe at the Estonian National Opera. From 2018 to present day, has been starring as a principal at the St. Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre.

 

Credits:
 

  • Espada and Don Quixote in Don Quixote (choreography by Johan Kobborg, based on a ballet by Marius Petipa);
  • Duke Albert and Hans in Giselle (choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa);
  • Prince Siegfried and Rothbart in Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov);
  • Prince Désiré and Aurora’s Suitor in The Sleeping Beauty (choreography by Marius Petipa and Jean-Guillaume Bart);
  • The Prince, Drosselmeyer, and Arabian Dance in The Nutcracker (choreography by Vasili Vainonen);
  • Ivan Tsarevich in The Firebird (choreography by Douglas Lee);
  • Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades (choreography by Iñaki Urlezaga);
  • Viennese Waltz and Village Don Juan from the Genre Scenes cycle (choreography by Leonid Yacobson);
  • Eternal Idol and Minotaur and Nymph from the Rodin cycle (choreography by Leonid Yacobson);
  • Mediaeval Dance with Kisses and Taglioni’s Flight from the Classicism-Romanticism cycle (choreography by Leonid Yacobson);
  • Brilliant Divertissement (choreography by Leonid Yacobson).

Past appearances:

  • National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus: Solor, Slave, and High Brahmin in La Bayadère; Spartacus in Spartacus; Vladimir and Yaropolk in Passions; Elven Prince and Goblin Chieftain in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; and José in Carmen.
  • Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre: Chekist in Red Giselle, Karenin in Anna Karenina, Ivan Karamazov in Beyond Sin, and the General in Onegin.
  • Estonian National Opera: Eugene Onegin in Onegin.