Denis Savin

Honoured artist of Russia

Graduated from the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet Academy (Igor Uksusnikov’s class) in 2002 and the same joined the Bolshoi Ballet. From the outset he was entrusted with solo parts. His second season at the theatre he received the title role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet to music by S. Prokofiev (production by Declan Donnelan, choreography by Radu Poklitary, 2003). Today Denis Savin is the leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, where his repertoire includes solo and solo roles in the ballets Giselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, La Sylphide, Raymonda, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Esmeralda, Coppelia, Pharaoh’s Daughter, Cipollino, The Bright Stream, Anna Karenina, Petrouchka, Nureyev, Spartacus, Hamlet, The Golden Age, Bolt, Legend of Love, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Flames of Paris, Russian Seasons, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Chroma, Herman Schmerman.

In 2006, he participated in the Bolshoi Theatre’s Studio of New Choreography workshop. In 2007, he appeared in the ballet Old Ladies Falling Out to music by L. Desyatnikov (choreography by A. Ratmansky). In 2011, he participated in the joint project of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts (Remansos to music by E. Granados, choreography by Nacho Duato; Fractus to music by R. Chatham, choreography by K. Armitage). In 2016, he was awarded the title of the honoured artist of Russia.
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