Andrei Yakovlev

Dancer

Born in Sverdlovsk.

Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Prof. Gennady Selyutsky).

Joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1988. Became a principal in 1992.

Repertoire includes:
La Silphide (James);
The Nutcracker (The Prince, Pas de trois);
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Desire, the Blue Bird);
Giselle (Albrecht);
Raymonda (Jean de Brienne);
Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried, Pas de trois);
Le Corsaire (Conrad);
Fokine?s: Chopiniana (Youth), The Firebird (Ivan Tsarevich); The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Vaslav);
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo);
Anna Karenina (Vronsky);
Balanchine?s: Jewels (Emeralds), Symphony in C, Serenade;
In the Nigh;
The Stone Flower (Danila);
The Leaves are fading;
Le Poeme de l?Extase;
Carmen (Don Jose);
La Baiser de la Fee (Youth);
The brook (Pa-de de);
La Bayadere (Solor, Pa-de-sis);
Goya-Divertissement (Makho);
Bejart?s Our Faust;
Leningrader Symphony (Youth);
Simonov?s The play of consciousness;
The lilac garden.

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