Alexei Ratmansky

Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Alexei Ratmansky trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. He was a Principal Dancer with Ukrainian National Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet and has choreographed ballets for top international companies. He is currently Artist in Residence at the American Ballet Theatre.

Ratmansky was Artistic Director at the Bolshoi Ballet during 2004-2009 and choreographed The Bright Stream (2003), the Soviet-era Flames of Paris (2008) and more. Under his direction, the Bolshoi Ballet was named “Best Foreign Company” in 2005 and 2007 by The Critics’ Circle in London.

For American Ballet Theatre, his choreographic works included Waltz Masquerade, a ballet honoring Nina Ananiashvili’s final season (2009), The Nutcracker (2010), The Sleeping Beauty (2015), Serenade after Plato’s Symposium (2016), Whipped Cream (2017) and Songs of Bukovina (2017). 

His notable and award-winning choreography includes the State Ballet of Georgia’s production of Dreams of Japan (1998), the Royal Danish Ballet’s production of Anna Karenina (2005) and The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Aida (2009)