Oleksii Kniazkov

Principal Dancer

Principal dancer of Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after N.V.Lysenko (Ukraine);

Born in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Since childhood, Oleksii had a great passion for dance. He started his dancing path with ballroom dancing. He didn't miss a single class during his studies: "It was unthinkable for me to miss a single class, even when I was sick I could not imagine that I would miss my loved training. No matter how I felt physically I danced! I loved that so much! It was the best medicine for me!"

Education
In 2004-2008 Oleksii studied at the Choreographic School of Vadim Pisarev at the Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A.Solovyanenko (Ukraine).

In 2013 Oleksii graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Contemporary Choreography Department (Ukraine);

Danced with Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after N.V.Lysenko (Ukraine 2013-2022)

United Ukrainian Ballet company (The Netherlands 2022-2024)

Throughout his career, he danced with various projects at hundreds of theater venues in the USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Greece, Spain, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Japan, China, Taiwan, Mexico, etc.

Productions

  • "Spartacus" choreography Georgy Kovtun, music Aram Khachaturyan - Marcus Crassus
  • "Giselle” choreography Marius Petipa, Alexei Ratmansky, music Adolphe Adam - Albrecht
  • "Giselle” choreography Marius Petipa, Leonid Lavrovsky, music Adolphe Adam - Albrecht, Gans
  • "La Bayadere" choreography Marius Petipa, Vladimir Troshchenko, music Ludwig Minkus - Solor, Golden idol
  • "Swan Lake" choreography Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, music Petr Tchaikovsky - Siegfried
  • "The Nutcracker" choreography Ashot Asaturyan, music Petr Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Prince
  • "Sleeping Beauty” choreography Marius Petipa Konstantin Sergeev, Natalya Dudinskaya, music Petr Tchaikovsky - Prince Desire
  • "Cinderella" choreography Victor Litvinov, music Sergey Prokofiev - Prince
  • "Don Quixote" choreography Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, Ashot Asaturyan music Ludwig Minkus - Basil, Torero, Espada
  • "Peer Gynt" choreography Vadim Pisarev, music Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt
  • "Carmen Suite" choreography Alexander Plisetsky, music Alberto Alonso - Hosе
  • "Le Corsaire" choreography Andrey Litvinov music Adolphe Adam - Konrad, Isaac Lankedem
  • "Les Sylphides" choreography Mikhail Fokin, music Frederick Chopin - Poet
  • "Coppelia" choreography Andrey Litvinov music Leo Delibes - Franz
  • "Romeo and Juliet" choreography Andrey Litvinov music Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo
  • "Paquita Grand pas" choreography Marius Petipa, German Pribilov, music Edouard Deldevez, Ludwig Minkus - Lucien d'Ervili
  • "Scheherazade" choreography Mikhail Fokin, music Rimsky- Korsakov - Golden slave
  • "Walpurgis Night" choreography Mikhail Satunovsky, music Charles Gounod - Bacchus
  • "Polovtsian Dances" choreography Natalia Umanova, music Alexander Borodin - Kumen
  • “One Thousand and One Nights” choreography Victor Shkil’ko music Fikret Amirov - Shahryar
  • “Wartime Elegy” choreography Alexei Ratmansky
  • “Grand Pas Classique Pas de deux” choreography Victor Gsovsky, music Daniel-Francois Auber.

Awards

  • Grand Prix of International Dance Competition Hellas (Greece 2018)
  • Best duet of Ukraine award (IBF BalletUA 2021)