Andrei Uvarov
Born in Moscow in 1971, Andrei Uvarov entered the Moscow Choreographic Academy at the age of ten. At the Academy he
studied under Alexander Bondarenko. Upon graduation in 1989 he joined the Bolshoi Ballet. While dancing with the Bolshoi
he also continued his training at the Moscow Choreographic Institute until 1995.
At the Bolshoi he has been working with reputed teachers like Nikolai Simachev, Nikolai Fadeyechev, and Boris Akimov. Noted
from the very beginning of
his career at the Bolshoi as much for his physical gifts and stature, as for the
qualities of his dancing style, allying a soaring high
leap with a fluent and subtle way of phrasing, Andrei Uvarov became one of the leading male dancers of
the Bolshoi company in the nineties. During the
ill-fated Bolshoi Ballet stint at London's Albert Hall in the Winter of
1993, Uvarov was singled out by the English critics
as a revelation.
Tall but with the proper weight, a beautiful long line and a gentle aristocratic presence, Uvarov is
every inch a danseur noble and the ideal incarnation for the many princely roles of the traditional Russian repertoire.
Andrei Uvarov is a recipient of the Benois de la danse in 1993 for his performance as Prince Siegfried in
Yuri Grigorovich's staging of Swan Lake. He won a Gold Medal at the 7th International Ballet Competition of Osaka in 1995.
In 2001 Uvarov was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
Andrei Uvarov has been a partner to many of the distinguished ballerinas at the Bolshoi (among others Nadezhda Pavlova,
Nina Semizorova, Nina Ananiashvili, Galina Stepanenko, Nadezhda Gracheva, Anna Antonicheva and Svetlana Zakharova), has been touring worldwide with
that company and frequently performs as a guest artist on various stages.
Marc Haegeman
His repertoire includes:
- Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Grigorovich) (1991)
- the Poet in Chopiniana (Fokine) (1991)
- Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Petipa/Ivanov, staged by Grigorovich) (1992)
- Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Grigorovich) (1992)
- Prince Kurbsky in Ivan The Terrible (Grigorovich) (1992)
- Albrecht in Giselle (Perrot, Coralli, staged by Vasiliev) (1993)
- Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa, staged by Grigorovich) (1993)
- Solor in La Bayadère (Petipa, Chabukiani, Ponomarev, staged by Grigorovich) (1994)
- Basilio in Don Quixote (Petipa, Gorsky, staged by Grigorovich) (1995)
- Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Lavrovsky) (1995)
- Jean de Brienne in Raymonda (Petipa, staged by Grigorovich) (1997)
- Lev (cr.) in Dreams About Japan (Ratmansky) (1998)
- soloist (cr.) in 2nd mvt. from Symphony in C (Balanchine) (1999)
- Basilio (cr.) in Don Quixote (Petipa, Gorsky, staged by Fadeyechev) (1999)
- title role in Spartacus (Grigorovich) (1999)
- soloist in Charms of Mannerism (Ratmansky) (2004)
- soloist in Lea (Ratmansky) (2004)
- soloist in Three preludes (Stevenson)
- Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Neumeier) (2004)
Concert repertoire:
- soloist in Paquita
- soloist in Le Corsaire pas de deux
Copyright © 2002-2005
Text and photos of Andrei Uvarov Copyright © 2002-2005 Marc
Haegeman. All rights reserved.