Ivan Putrov
Ivan Putrov (born 8 March 1980) is a Ukrainian-born ballet dancer. An independent dance artist, he was a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet from 2002 until July 2010.
Biography[edit]
Ivan Putrov was born in Kiev into a family of ballet dancers from The Ukrainian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Natalia Berezina-Putrova and Oleksandr Putrov.[1] He appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 10 in the ballet "The Forest Song".[1]
Educated at the Kiev Ballet School, at the age of 15 Ivan Putrov won the Prix de Lausanne competition (1996),[2] where the then-Royal Ballet School director Merle Park was a judge. He spent 18 months at the Royal Ballet School and on graduation in 1998 Ivan Putrov was invited by the Royal Ballet's director, Sir Anthony Dowell, to join the company itself.[1]
He became a principal with The Royal Ballet in 2002. Putrov won the National Dance Award for Outstanding Young Male Artist (Classical) the same year.[3]
In 2006 Putrov suffered an injury in an onstage fall, which led to a lengthy leave from dancing.[4] He has since returned to the stage without apparent lasting effects.
Putrov has also appeared with national ballet companies in Hungary, Lithuania and Ukraine, and appeared at the Vienna Staatsoper.[5]
He created the role of Karl in The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 2011, and was also credited in the early development of the work.[5]
In 2012 Putrov choreographed his first major creation for the stage entitled Ithaca, using La Péri by Paul Dukas.[6]
Repertoire[edit]
He has received notice for roles such as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake and Lensky in John Cranko's Onegin, for which The Guardian praised his "captivating blitheness."[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Frater, Sarah (18 March 2011). "Dancing to a New Tune". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "Ivan Poutrov Profile Page". Prix de Lausanne official website. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "National Dance Awards 2002 Awards". National Dance Awards official website. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
- ^ Brown, Ismene (2 December 2007). "Russian aristocrat returns in beautiful and hungry form". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
- ^ a b Cast biography in theatre programme for The Most Incredible Thing, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 2012.
- ^ Mackrell J. Ballet's men step out of the shadows. Guardian, 15 January 2012.
- ^ Mackrell, Judith (19 March 2007). "Onegin". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
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