• Honoured Art Worker of Russia (2023)
• Benois de la Danse Award winner in the “Choreographer” category (2023)
• Recipient of the Russian Government Prize (2020)
• Recipient of the Sverdlovsk Region Governor’s Award (2015, 2016, 2020)
• Recipient of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award for Best Choreographer (2014 – Salieri Variations, 2015 – Tsvetodelika, 2019 – The King's Command, 2023 – Dancemania, 2024 – Sextus Propertius)
• Soul of Dance award from Ballet magazine in the “Dance Magician” category (2016)
Vyacheslav Samodurov graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Gennady Selyutsky). From 1992 to 2001 he danced with the Mariinsky Theatre, performing leading roles in classical ballets as well as works by George Balanchine, Roland Petit, and Alexei Ratmansky. He was a principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet from 2000 to 2003 and with The Royal Ballet from 2003 to 2010.
He made his choreographic debut in 2006 at the Bolshoi Theatre’s New Choreography Workshop, presenting +/-2 to music by Handel.
From 2011 to 2023 Samodurov served as Artistic Director of Ural Ballet. During his tenure, he staged Amore Buffo, based on Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Cantus Arcticus to music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Salieri Variations to music by Antonio Salieri, Tsvetodelika to music by Tchaikovsky and Arvo Pärt, Curtain to music by Respighi, Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev (a revised version of his 2014 production for the Royal Ballet of Flanders), The Snow Queen by Vasilyev, The King’s Command by Korolyov, The Little Humpbacked Horse (co-created with Anton Pimonov).
His broader choreographic portfolio includes: Trip Trac to music by Shostakovich (Royal Opera House Young Choreographers Workshop, Covent Garden, 2010), Minor Sonatas to music by Scarlatti (Mikhailovsky Theatre, 2010), H₂O (2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2012), Undine by Henze (Bolshoi Theatre, 2016), The Fairy’s Kiss by Stravinsky (Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2017), The Gift to music by Leonid Desyatnikov (L.A.D. project, 2021), Mischievous Chastushki to music by Rodion Shchedrin and 598 Bars to music by Bach (Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre, 2022 and 2024), Dancemania and The Tempest by Krasavin (Bolshoi Theatre, 2022 and 2024).
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