Andrei Batalov

• Honoured Artist of Russia (2010)
• Prize-winner at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya (Japan, 1996, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the International Rudolf Nureyev Ballet Competition (Budapest, 1996, 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the Arabesque-96 Open Ballet Competition in Perm (1996, 1^st prize and Mikhail Baryshnikov Prize)
• Prize-winner at the International Ballet Competition (Paris, 1997, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow (1997, Grand Prix)

Born in Izhevsk (Udmurtia).
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Professor Valentin Onoshko).
From 1992–1994 he was a soloist with the St Petersburg State Academic Musorgsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1994.

His repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (James);
Le Corsaire (Ali, Lankedem);
La Bayadère (Solor, Golden Idol);
The Sleeping Beauty (Blue Bird);
Don Quixote (Basilio);
Michel Fokine’s ballets Schéhérazade (Golden Slave) and Le Spectre de la rose (Ghost of the Rose);
Prodigal Son (Prodigal Son) – choreography by George Balanchine;
Diana and Actaeon’s Pas de deux from the ballet La Esmeralda;
Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio);
Études – choreography by Harald Lander;
Le Jeune homme et la mort – choreography by Roland Petit;
Manon (Lescaut) – choreography by Kenneth MacMillan;
Ondine (Matteo) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Duet of Autumn Colours – music by Arvo Pärt, choreography by Yevgeny Panfilov;
Pas de deux from the ballet Flames of Paris – choreography by Vasily Vainonen
and Pétrouchka (Petrushka) – choreography by Michel Fokine, staging by Gary Chryst.

From 2000–2002 he danced with the Royal Danish Ballet.