Danila Korsuntsev

• Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2008)
• Prize-winner at the Joinville Dance Festival (Brazil, 1995)
• Prize-winner at the International Ballet Competition Maya (St Petersburg, 1996)
• Diploma-recipient at the International Ballet Competition in Paris (1997)

Danila Korsuntsev was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). He graduated from the Uzbek School of Ballet in 1992 (class of Kurkmas Sagatov).
From 1992–1998 he was a soloist with the Moscow State Classical Ballet Theatre directed by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev.
He joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1998.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Giselle (Albrecht);
Le Corsaire (Conrad);
La Bayadère (Solor);
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré);
Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried);
Raymonda (Jean de Brienne);
Grand pas from the ballet Paquita;
Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Youth) and Schéhérazade (Zobeide’s Slave);
Carmen-Suite (Jose) – choreography by Alberto Alonso;
Spartacus (Spartacus) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, Symphony in C (2^nd Movement), Jewels (Diamonds) and Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial);
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins;
Grand Pas Classique – choreography by Viktor Gzovsky
and John Neumeier’s Now and Then
Yuri Smekalov’s ballets – Presentiment of Spring (Yarilo) and Bolero Factory (Pride).

In 2004 as a guest soloist he performed at the Ali-Shir Nava’i State Academic Bolshoi Theatre (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) as Prince Siegfried opposite Sofia Gumerova as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake.

He has performed at the National Opera and Ballet in Bulgaria (Metaphysics) and at the National Theatre of Japan in Tokyo (as Jean de Brienne in the ballet Raymonda).

He has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Greece and China.