Emil Faski

After graduating from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Emil Faski was a principal dancer with the State Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre, where he performed a great many roles in the classical repertoire. He has worked with the dance companies in Hamburg, Monte Carlo and Stuttgart. He has danced in ballets by choreographers including John Cranko, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek and John Neumeier, and has also begun to develop his career as a choreographer. Since 2007 he has been actively engaged with many ballet companies as a choreographer and he also works with renowned playwrights, designers and composers. In 2009 he made his debut as a choreographer at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he staged the dances in the opera Les Troyens.