Dmitry Pimonov was born in Volgograd. In 1989 he graduated from the Studio School of the Leningrad State Music Hall and joined the company the same year as a ballet soloist. While remaining a guest soloist with the St Petersburg Music Hall, he performed from 2000 at the Lahti City Theatre (Finland) in the dramatic musical Anna Karenina. Also collaborated with the Neoclasic Danza (Barcelona, Spain, 2002), the Academia Fernanda Canossa (Porto, Portugal, 2003) and the Ballet Company of the Madeira Casino and Television. During 2007–2011 Dmitry Pimonov danced with the Dance Theatre ERI in Turku, Finland.
In 2010 he graduated from St Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy as a choreographer (class of Edvald Smirnov). His graduation work was a musical and choreographic suite with narrator based on Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, created jointly by the Vaganova Ballet Academy and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra for Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as the choreographer and rehearsal director for the musical Dance of the Vampires at the St Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy.
At the Mariinsky Theatre Dmitry Pimonov staged the dances for the operas Faust (2013) and Mandragora (2025). He also created the miniatures Malachia, Solo and Faun for Igor Kolb, a Mariinsky principal dancer.
As part of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Choreographers Workshop, Pimonov presented the ballet Divertimento to music by Bernstein in 2018, Concertino bianco to music by Georgs Pelēcis in 2019, and Morceaux de fantaisie to music by Rachmaninoff in 2020. In 2022 the choreographer created the duet Rendez-vous Valse to music by Eduard Kiprsky especially for the VI International Harp Festival Northern Lyre.
The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre premiered Dmitry Pimonov’s ballets Daphnis et Chloé (2020) to music by Ravel and Visions fugitives (2020) to music by Prokofiev. At the Mariinsky Theatre’s Branch in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania the artist staged the dances for the opera Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (2026).
At the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, he created the ballet Rachmaninoff (2026) to music by the composer itself and choreography for the operas Turandot and Thumbelina (2025).
At the Abdylas Maldybayev Kyrgyz National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Bishkek, Dmitry Pimonov staged the ballet The Creation of the World (2022) to music by Baruch Berliner. Served as the choreographer for the poetic dance production Brodsky. Ballet (2022).
For students of the Vaganova Ballet Academy he created the choreographic miniatures The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Post-industrial Faun, Passions: Judith and Holofernes, Deer (created especially for the Diaghilev. P.S. Festival and awarded a special diploma at St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre Grand Prix competition in 2009) and Aria (recipient of a special diploma at the Mikhailovsky Theatre Grand Prix in 2010).
For students of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy, St Petersburg, Dmitry Pimonov created the productions The Syncopated Clock, Allemande, Waltz-Memory and Dialogue with a Bassoon.
For the Luxembourg Stars Gala (2017) he staged a Russian Dance to music by Tchaikovsky.
For the Dance Theatre ERI the artist created the production Hereafter – Dedication to Glenn Gould as well as the miniatures Nausicaa and The King Dances.
Specially for the television project Bolero he choreographed Je suis malade for Mikhailovsky Theatre prima ballerina Irina Perren and USA figure skating champion Petr Chernyshev. For the project Day and Night Dmitry Pimonov collaborated with video artist Maxim Svishchev on the performance Nerve for Mikhailovsky Theatre principal Marat Shemiunov.
Has also served as the choreographer for the musicals The Master and Margarita, Nameless Star, Onegin’s Demon, Oscar and the Pink Lady and Chudo-Yudo (“Bizarre Sea Creature”).
At the Kazakh National Academy of Choreography, Astana, he created the productions Rondo-surprise and Ciaccona (2019), Solo for Three, Playing with Baroque and Sonata (2020).
At the Buryat State Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ulan-Ude), as part of the project Buryat Fairy Tales and Legends, he staged the ballet Joy and Sorrow (2019) based on a folk tale and set to music by Pavel Karmanov.
At the Sirius Educational Centre, Sochi, Dmitry Pimonov created the production The Swan (2019), inspired by Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling and set to music by Tchaikovsky and Queen.
Collaborates with St Petersburg’s Manege Central Exhibition Hall, for which he created the production Masai – Warriors of the Savannah for the exhibition Upside-Down Safari, while several of his productions appeared as part of the exhibition First Position. Has also collaborated with the fashion house of Tatyana Kotegova, the British group The Tiger Lillies, the St Petersburg band Theodor Bastard, actor Dmitry Bykovsky, the Georgy Danelia Foundation and Tamara Moskvina’s figure skating club.
The Rosbalt news agency included Dmitry Pimonov in its list of leading creative intellectuals as part of the project St Petersburg Avant-garde.
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