Born
20.8.75 in Kiev. Ukrainian

Education
Conservatory, Kiev. Limón School

Main Teachers
Vladimir Denisenko, Andrej Halasz

Engagements
National Theater, Kiev. Classical Theater, Kiev. Children's Theater, Kiev. Czech National Theater, Ústi nad Labem. Slovakian National Theater, Bratislava. The Hamburg Ballet since 1998

Creations

• Ilya Afanasevich Shamrajev in The Seagull

and solo in

• Beautiful Freak (Marco Goecke)

Repertory

in Kiev

• Giselle - Peasant-Pas de deux
• Cinderella (Litvinov)
• Cipollino (Mayorov)

in Czech Republic

• Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Soth)
• Basil in Don Quixote
• José in Carmen (Soth)

  and solos in

• Verdi Requiem (Soth)
• excerpt from Sixth Symphony of Gustav Mahler (Soth)

in Hamburg

• Prince Leopold and Prince Siegfried in
  Illusions - like "Swan Lake"
• Hilarion in Giselle
• "La Fille du Pharaon" in The Nutcracker
• Uter Pendragon in The Saga of King Arthur
• The King in The Sleeping Beauty
• Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
• Leopold Mozart in Windows on MOZART
• Ither, the Red Knight in Parzival – Episodes and Echo
• The King in A Cinderella Story
• The Wild Warrior in Othello
• The High Brahmin in La Bayadère
  (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)

  and solos in

• Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
• Messiah
• Christmas Oratorio
• Unerreichbare Orte (Jirí Bubenícek)
• Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
• Ne m'oublie pas (Yaroslav Ivanenko)

He choreographed

• Somewhere I Got Lost
  Music: Gustav Mahler
  Premiere: Hamburg, 1999
• Morning Prayers
  Music: Giya Kancheli
  Premiere: Hamburg, 2001
• Firebird
  Music: Giya Kancheli
  Premiere: Kosice, 2001
  Commissioned by the Slovakian National Theater
• Left Behind
  Music: Balanescu/Connors
  Premiere: Stuttgart, March 2003
• Ne m'oublie pas
  Music: Yann Tiersen
  Premiere: Stuttgart, November 2004
  Sphaera Gala
• Arise
  Music: Masato Hatanaka
  Film project in Tokyo, February 2005
• Zigzag
  Music: René Aubry
  Premiere: Donetsk, Ukraine, May 2005
• Memory
  Music: Yann Tiersen
  Premiere: Donetsk, Ukraine, May 2005
  Commissioned solo
• Voces Intimae
  Music: Jean Sibelius
  Performed by: Vertavo Quartet
  Premiere: Hitzacker, July 2005
  60th Anniversary of the "Hitzacker Summer Music Days"
• Visual Soundtrack
  Music: Wauvenfold
  Commissioned solo
• Impression
  Music: Eric Satie
  Commissioned solo
• Illuminations & Serenade
  Music: Benjamin Britten
  Performed by: Ensemble Resonanz
  Premiere: Hitzacker, July 2006
  Commissioned by the "Hitzacker Summer Music Days"
• Fragility of Verticality
  Music: Shostakovich's Kammersymphonie op. 110a
  Performed by: Concertino Ensemble
  Premiere: Rostock, November 2006
  Commissioned by "Pro MV"
• Unassuming Sonata
  Music: Johannes Brahms – Violin Sonata no. 3
  Premiere: Hamburg's City Hall, June 7, 2007
• Invisible Grace
  Music: Gurdjieff – Prayer
  Premiere: Faro, Portugal, September 23, 2007
• Rendez-Vous
  Music: Yann Tiersen
  Premiere: Hamburg, February 3, 2008
  Benefit performance: Kinderjahre Foundation
  
• You Never Know
  Music: Antonin Comestaz
  Premiere: Hamburg, September 14, 2008
• Walzer- Orient und Okzident
  Music: Wolgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven
  Premiere: Hitzacker, July 25th, 2009
  Commissioned by the "Hitzacker Summer Music Days"
• Just Like That
  Music: Antonin Dvorak
  Premiere: Cincinnati, Ohio, August 15, 2009 International Gala

Awards

• Choreographic Competition - PRIX Dom Pérignon 1999:
  Special Mention of the Jury for his choreography: Somewhere I got lost ...
  (Music: Gustav Mahler).
• Choreographic Competition - PRIX Dom Pérignon 2001:
  Public's Choice for his choreography: Morning Prayers (Music: Giya Kancheli).
• In 2003 he was finalist at the 7th International Solo-Dance-Theater-Festival in Stuttgart with his ballet Left Behind.
• In 2006 he was finalist at the 20th International Choreographic Competion in Hanover with his ballet Ne m'oublie pas.
• "Diploma" from the "Serge Lifar International Competition 2006" for his ballets Visual Soundtrack and Impression.

Guesting
With his own choreographies: Kiev, Lviv, Donetsk, Regensburg, Stuttgart, Hitzacker, Rostock, Faro, York (England), Houston, Cincinnati, Bremen and Bremerhafen.

Yaroslav Ivanenko's Website: www.yaroslavivanenko.net