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Yuri Smekalov (Dancer)

• Prize-winner at the XI International Ballet Dancers’ and Choreographers’ Competition, “Choreography” category (1st prize, Moscow, 2009). 
• Recipient of the Golden Mask, Russia’s most prestigious theatre prize, for “Best Male Role” in the ballet The Seagull(Trigorin) in the 2007–2008 season.
• Recipient of St Petersburg's most prestigious theatre prize the Golden Sofit in the category "Best Male Role in Ballet" for the lead role in Angelin Preljocaj's ballet Le Parc (2011). 
• Prize-winner at the VII International Competition of Choreographers and Ballet Masters under the patronage of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO in the category "Ballet Video" (1st prize, Novosibirsk, 2012). 
• Recipient of the medal In Honour of the Tercentenary of St Petersburg in 2003. 

Born in Nizhny Tagil. 
In 1998, he graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Konstantin Shatilov).

From 1998-2009, he was a soloist with the Boris Eifman St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre, where he danced the lead roles in ballets including Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman, Tchaikovsky, The Karamazovs, Red Giselle, Russian Hamlet, Don Juan and Molière, WHO is WHO, Anna Karenina, Requiem, My Jerusalem and The Seagull.

As a guest artist, he has appeared at the Mikhailovsky Theatre (as Spartacus in the ballet of the same name), the Warsaw Opera Narodowa (as Tchaikovsky in the ballet of the same name) and at the St Petersburg State Leonid Yakobson Academic Ballet Theatre (as Zeus in the ballet Andro-Geny and Spartacus in Leonid Yakobson's ballet Spartacus).

Yuri Smekalov was invited to join the Mariinsky Theatre in February 2009. 

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: 

Don Quixote (Espada); choreography by Alexander Gorsky after motifs of Marius Petipa’s production, 
La Sylphide (Gurn); choreography by August Bournonville, revised version by Elsa-Marianne von Rosen, 
Giselle (Hans); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, 
Swan Lake (von Rothbart); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev, 
Le Corsaire (Birbanto); production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography by Marius Petipa, 
Raymonda (Abderakhman); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev, 
Michel Fokine’s ballets The Firebird (Ivan Tsarevich), Le Carnaval (Pierrot) and Pétrouchka (The Moor), 
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Ghirei); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov, 
The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer); choreography by Vasily Vainonen, 
Leonid Yakobson’s ballets Shurale (Ali-Batyr, Evil Spirit) and Spartacus (Spartacus, Harmodius), 
Leonid Lavrovsky’s ballets Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt, Paris) and Walpurgis Night (Bacchus), 
The Legend of Love (Vizier); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, 
Carmen-Suite (Torero, José); choreography by Alberto Alonso, 
George Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Emeralds) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), 
In the Night; choreography by Jerome Robbins, 
Sylvia (Orion); choreography by Frederick Ashton, 
Adagio Hammerklavier; choreography by Hans van Manen, 
The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer); production by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov, 
The Magic Nut (Drosselmeyer); production by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Donvena Pandoursky, 
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets The Little Humpbacked Horse (Gentleman of the Bedchamber, Horses, Seahorses), Anna Karenina(Vronsky) and Cinderella (Dance Teacher, Male Dance), 
Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion (Pierrot Lunaire, Three Point Turn), 
Vernal Waters; choreography by Asaf Messerer, 
Le Parc (soloist); choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
and Sacre; choreography by Sasha Waltz.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to Europe, Asia and America.

On 23 February 2014 he performed the role of Diaghilev in the closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.


Since 2008 Yuri Smekalov has worked as a choreographer. He has staged productions of choreographic miniatures and ballets including: 
Autumn Gold (“Verba volant, scripta manent – Words fly away, what is written remains”, 2008; project in memory of Georgy Alexidze), 
Parting (first performers – Yevgenia Obraztsova and Vladimir Shklyarov at the gala concert Malakhov and Friends, Berlin, 2008), 
Requiem for Narcissus, Story on the Run (2009), 
Presentiment of Spring (to music by Anatoly Lyadov, 2010), 
Bolero Factory (to music by Maurice Ravel, 2010), 
Intensio (to music by Alexander Maev, 2013), 
Camera obscura (to music by Alexander Maev, 2014),
Orpheus in the Underworld (to music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, 2015), 
Who is my Shadow? (to music by Alexander Maev, 2015). 
Yuri Smekalov’s choreographic miniatures Requiem for Narcissus and Parting have been performed in Europe and Asia.

2012 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow saw the premiere of the two-act ballet Moidodyr (Wash ’Em Clean with choreography by Yuri Smekalov and music by Efrem Podgaits).

In May 2013 Yuri Smekalov appeared in a gala dedicated to the opening of the new Mariinsky Theatre; the programme for the evening included Yuri Smekalov’s version of Harald Lander’s ballet Études. In June the same year he participated in the project A Creative Workshop of Vladimir Vasiliev, held as part of the Plato Arts Festival in Voronezh where he presented the choreographic miniature Jan to music by Alexander Maev.

In August 2013 the Teatro-sala de conciertos Elisa Carrillo Cabrera in Texcoco hosted the premiere of Yuri Smekalov’s balletInfinita Frida to music by Alexander Maev. The lead roles were performed by Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, Vladimir Malakhov, Mikhail Kaniskin, Beatrice Knop and Igor Kolb.

Yuri Smekalov works with the coach Alexei Mishin and he is involved in creating programmes for Russia’s figure skating team. In 2003–2004 he was the choreographer for Yevgeny Plyushchenko’s programmes and, in 2008–2009, he created the programmes Narcissus and The Hermit for figure skater Artur Gachinsky.





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