Yevgeny Ivanchenko

Honoured Artist of Russia (2010)

Born in Ashkhabad (Turkmenistan).
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Valentin Onoshko).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1992.
Soloist since 1996.

His repertoire includes:
Giselle (Count Albrecht);
Le Corsaire (Conrad);
La Bayadère (Solor) – Vakhtang Chabukiani’s version;
Grand pas from the ballet Paquita;
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré) – Konstantin Sergeyev’s version;
Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried);
Raymonda (Jean de Brienne, Grand pas Act);
Don Quixote (Basilio, Espada);
The Nutcracker (Prince) – Vasily Vainonen’s version;
Michel Fokine’s ballets The Firebird (Ivan-Tsarevich), Chopiniana (Nocturne, Mazurka, Seventh Waltz) and Schéhérazade (the Golden Slave);
Le Sacre du printemps (The Chosen One);
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo);
The Legend of Love (Ferkhad);
Carmen-Suite (Torero) – choreography by Alberto Alonso;
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo, Serenade, Symphony in C (II Movement), Theme and Variations, Jewels (Diamonds), Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial) and Scotch Symphony;
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins;
and Manon (Des Grieux) – choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

He has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Azerbaijan, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway and Korea.

Upcoming performances:
14 February Carmen Suite. Presentiment of Spring
Ivanchenko has all of ballet’s tricks in his arsenal, but his dancing goes beyond them. He has beautiful lines … his perfect landings are silent, as if the stage were covered in moss and his body were made of silk rather than muscle and bone.
The Washington Post

Yevgeny Ivanchenko was an admirable partner to Ulyana Lopatkina. His character is tortured by visions and he strives to enter the romantic world of the Sylph, which is guarded by Scottish warriors. The wide and free leaps, the beautiful poses and the drama of the acting form the image of a character who has as if descended from the pages of a novel by Walter Scott.
Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti