“The new leader of Perm Ballet has a classical profile and a character to match – proud, strong-willed, stubborn, fundamentally honest and a little aloof. That’s why he is an artist. He has devoted seventeen years of his life to the art of dance as a performer and eight already as a choreographer. At the Mariinsky, as in Pushkin’s “lycée gardens”, his love for the corps de ballet, the myriad combinations and reconfigurations of the dancers, and the beauty of calibrated lines blossomed. A love also for the energy without which, as much as without a tuning fork, a good performance is impossible to achieve.”
Dance Open 2024:
Hungarian Dances performed by Ural Ballet
Dance Open 2023:
Sevagin / Samodurov / Pimonov
performed by Perm ballet
Dance Open 2020:
Ural Intro performed by
Ural Ballet
Anton Pimonov
He graduated from the Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy in 1999 (class of Yuriy Umrikhin) and was accepted by the Mariinsky Theatre in the same year. He performed solo roles in the Soviet versions of the ballets of Petipa and Gorsky, as well as the ballets of Balanchine and Forsythe. He performed in the Russian premieres of ballets by Nijinsky, Macmillan, Neumeier, and Preljocaj. He was the original performer of roles in ballets by Lacotte, Ratmansky, Simonov, Miroshnichenko, Dmitrievskiy, and Gelber. He took part in the projects Diana Vishnyova: Beauty in Movement and Diana Vishnyova: Dialogues.
He made his debut as a choreographer at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2012. He staged a total of six works there, including Violin Concerto No. 2 to music by Prokofiev, which won him a Golden Mask National Theatre Award for Best Choreography.
He has worked at the Yacobson Ballet Theatre, Moscow Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballett, and the Bоlshoi Theatre, as well as Perm Choreographic College.
From 2017 to 2020, he was assistant artistic director and choreographer at Ural Ballet. There he staged the ballet Brahms Party to music by Johannes Brahms and Korolyov’s The Little Humpbacked Horse.
From 2020 to 2023, he has been head of the ballet troupe at Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.