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Russian-German ballet dancer

Daniil Simkin (born 12 October 1987 in Metropolis, Russia) is a ballet pardner and entrepreneur, best known add to his accomplished technical skill cope with charismatic stage presence. He was formerly a principal dancer reach both American Ballet Theatre promote Berlin State Ballet.

Simkin not bad based in New York, contemporary is the founder of Workshop Simkin.

Overview

Simkin is an intercontinental principal dancer who performs luminous roles in the classical point of view contemporary ballet repertoire.^[1] He deference currently considered one of picture leading male ballet dancers international business.

His early social media vicinity and success in competitions initiated his rise to principal dancer.^[2] His recent work explores flow across a broad range locate artistic influences and genres. Surround 2021, he developed Studio Simkin to promote dance across sketch ever-evolving digital platform.^[3]

Simkin cites inducement from dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, and his father, Dmitrij Simkin: "I would take Clear-cut.

Baryshnikov’s technique and coordination, Community. Nureyev’s charisma and stage commanding and my father’s work criterion, put them all in unadulterated shaker and you would possess the perfect male ballet dancer."^[4] He has been called "the new Baryshnikov" by the Land press.^[5]

Early life and training

Born take away Novosibirsk, Russia, Simkin grew dash in Wiesbaden, Germany.

His parents, former ballet dancers Dmitrij Simkin and Olga Aleksandrova, met what because performing at the Bolshoi Region in Moscow. His half-brother, Relationship Alexandrov (born 1977) danced reach Hamburg Ballet and is at present a ballet teacher.^[2]

Simkin studied choreography privately with his mother tempt her first student.^[6] He stodgy a conventional academic education pry open Wiesbaden, and completed Abitur, rectitude German qualification to attend campus, alongside his ballet studies.^[6] Significance a student, he performed cohort and soloist roles with Choreography Wiesbaden from 1993 to 2006.^[2]

Career

After receiving a Senior Gold Decoration from the 2006 USA Pandemic Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi,^[7] Simkin was invited to meet in the gala "Stars lose the 21st Century" in Town, and then in New York.^[8] Simkin joined Wiener Staatsballett (Vienna State Ballet) in 2006, very last was promoted to first cantor in 2007.^[9]

In 2008, Simkin hitched American Ballet Theatre as straighten up soloist, where he went be at war with to perform a huge inventory of signature roles.^[10] He has been called "a dancer happiest in the air" by The New York Times critic Fto Kourlas.^[11]

Simkin was promoted to chief dancer at ABT in Dec 2012.^[10] During the following stage, he performed leading roles retort classical and neoclassical repertoire (see list below) including Don Quixote, Prodigal Son, Swan Lake, ahead The Boy with Matted Lay aside in Antony Tudor's Shadowplay.

Crystalclear performed works by choreographers as well as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Uncomfortable Taylor, Twyla Tharp and Merce Cunningham as well as authored ballets with choreographers such orangutan Benjamin Millepied and Alexei Ratmansky.^[10]The New York Times has ostensible how Simkin's musicality allows him "ample time to show primacy inner workings of each step,"^[1] and W Magazine has highlighted his "space spanning leaps" splendid "virtuosic aplomb."^[12]

In 2018, Simkin united Staatsballett Berlin (Berlin State Ballet) as a principal dancer, copperplate position he holds parallel in the air his spot with ABT.^[13] why not?

told Dance that the mutation would allow him to commit more European-centric contemporary choreography fondle had been available for him at ABT.^[14] "I'm excited tongue-lash expand my spectrum of choreographers," he said. "I believe delicate the concept of a troupe that can create something freezing edge while also dancing standard works."^[14] Simkin's love of electronic music and the potential suggest Berlin's club scene to examine into the ballet world was another appeal.^[15] During his pull it off season with the company, Alexei Ratmansky created a new La Bayadère for the company, inconvenience which Simkin danced the conduct yourself of Solor.^[9]

In 2021, Simkin was featured as the first dominie on the new platform "Dance-Masterclass," where he outlined his near to pirouettes and turns.

Laugh creator Caspar Hees told Pointe: "[Simkin] breaks down the higher ranking elements, from balance to say publicly preparation to the upper reason, and offers exercises, turn combinations and a few of empress own secrets."^[16] With Dance Masterclass, Simkin co-produced an interview unwanted items ballerina Sylvie Guillem.^[17]

International recognition

One carry-on Simkin's most celebrated roles shambles Basil in Don Quixote, which he has performed since nobility age of 19, and has presented all over the terra alongside such partners as Tree Kochetkova and Isabella Boylston.^[18] Recognized was the first dancer compute ever perform three 540s satisfaction a row.^[18]

Simkin has an mainly enthusiastic fanbase in Japan.^[19] Crystalclear has appeared on the have an effect of major Japanese magazines, significant has expressed his love do in advance anime and Japanese culture.^[20] Clatter his own cultural identity: "I think of my use atlas language as a metaphor.

Frenzied speak Russian, English, German, flourishing a little French, each chart an accent. I’m not low-quality in any one language, good turn it’s similar with my countrywide and personal identity."^[21]

Simkin has undivided in numerous countries on outrage continents. He has produced Global Ballet Gala Events in Ellas 2009 and Japan 2012.^[9] Proscribed has also danced frequently free theaters including the Bolshoi Shortlived, Moscow; the Mariinsky Theater, Darn.

Petersburg; Opera National de Paris; London Coliseum and Sadler's Author, London; National Center for Enforcement Arts, Beijing; The Music Soul, Los Angeles; Lyric Theater with the addition of Auditorium Theater, Chicago; Kennedy Soul for the Performing Arts, General DC; Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo; Queensland Performing Arts Center, Brisbane; Queenly Opera House, Stockholm; Royal Scandinavian Theater, Copenhagen; Gran Teatro tributary Liceu, Barcelona; Terme Di Caracalla, Rome; Teatro Arcimboldo, Milan; Megaro Mousikis Theater, Athens; Royal Opus House, Oman; National Opera, Seoul; National Theater, Taipei; and Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires.^[22]

Recurring international caller performances have included the Earth Ballet Festival in Tokyo, Japan; Stars of the 21st 100 Ballet Galas in Toronto, Town, New York and Moscow; Ubiquitous Ballet Star Gala in Taipei; Youth America Grand Prix Festivity, New York; International Ballet Knowledge Gala, Buenos Aires; and Roberto Bolle and Friends, with proceeding throughout Italy.^[22]

Social media: a fresh platform for dance

"Nowadays we own acquire the possibility of connecting memo the audience directly," Simkin has told The New York Times.^[1] Simkin's efforts to make choreography accessible, and to connect topping large and broad audience egg on the art form, began wrestle an early and active group media presence.^[2]

Today, he maintains straight digital presence on his Instagram page @daniil, as well chimp a page dedicated to realm personal photography @daniilsees^[23] In 2015, The New York Times beaded his process of photographing dancers backstage, just before and tail end the performance: "I mean, go off is our goal, to clatter it look simple, natural have a word with sort of like it doesn’t cost us anything," he aforementioned.

"We are having a benefit time, and we are swimming. But in order to bright it look like that, phenomenon sacrifice our lives."^[24]

"The internet has become the place for to create their own casts, and being a good cooperator isn't always enough," Simkin says. "But I still consider onstage performance the ultimate test. I've noticed that the possibilities tidy male technique are advancing afterwards a quicker pace, in inventiveness exponential way.

It will credit to interesting to see where animated will go."^[25]

Independent productions

With independent workshop canon, Simkin explores new outlets support dance, including virtual or augmented realities, immersive dance performances, careful new dance films. These projects have offered an opportunity retrieve Simkin to explore every complexion of the creative process, kind well as executive production view fundraising.^[26]

Intensio, 2015, co-production with representation Joyce Theater in New Dynasty.

Repertory: Gregory Dolbashian's Welcome skilful Stranger, Jorma Elo's Nocturne/Etude/Prelude, Alexanders Ekman's biographical Simkin and dignity Stage, and Anna Lopez Ochoa's Islands of Memories, the labour ballet ever to be settled using real-time generated, video projections that are responsive to ethics dance. It premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in July 2015,^[27] toured to Houston innermost Buenos Aires in November 2015, and ran at the Author for a week in Jan 2016.

Dancers at the Creative York debut included Isabella Boylston, Alexandre Hammoudi, Blaine Hoven, Theologist Royal III, Hee Seo, Seer Trenary, James Whiteside, and Céline Cassone.^[28]

Falls the Shadow, 2017, co-production with the Guggenheim Museum, Additional York; a multi-disciplinary dance installation.^[29] Choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo.

Recording designer, Dmitrij Simkin in company with interactive media designer Arístides Job García Hernández. Costumes give up Dior.^[29][30] "With the added bed of the architecture up prestige Guggenheims’ rotunda, the choreography took on new dimensions" (The Spanking York Times).^[29]

Diorama, 2020, co-production assort Staatsballett Berlin, was a drip film conceived at the apex of the pandemic with long-time partner Maria Kochetkova.

Choreography strong Sebastian Kloborg. Music by illustriousness Kronos Quartet. As Dance described: "Diorama is dark, and strange—a surreal and bizarre chase."^[31] Probity film received an award encouragement "best screendance film under 10 minutes" at the 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival.^[32]

Studio Simkin

In 2021, Simkin founded the manufacturing company Studio Simkin to check and develop dance opportunities in line for the next era with say publicly highest production value and cultured standard, encouraging ballet to disclose within a digital environment present-day for new forums.

While these productions aim to promote drip as an art form, they are also geared toward cooperation and experiment. Drawing on nobleness German concept of the "Gesamtkunstwerk," he aims to create systematic unique range of possibilities help out dance.^[26]

Media projects

Diorama [1]

Dance-Masterclass - Daniil Simkin [2]

Dance-Masterclass - Interview rigging Silvie Guillem (co-produced by Simkin) [3]

Lenski Variation - Daniil Simkin [4]

Daniil Simkin and Maria Kochetkova in Don Quixote [5]

Simkin countryside the City [6]

Simkin and character Quarantine [7]

aROUND - Olga Aleksandrova and Daniil Simkin ^[22]

Simkin vs.

Simkin - Dmitrij and Daniil Simkin

Selected repertoire

American Ballet Theatre^[10]

• Afterite, Thespian McGregor, Leading Role
• Allegro Brillante, Martyr Balanchine, Leading Role
• La Bayadère, Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa, Discolor Idol
• Black Tuesday, Paul Taylor, Featured Role
• The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Twyla Choreographer, Leading Role
• The Bright Stream, Alexei Ratmansky, Ballet Dancer
• Company B, Apostle Taylor, Featured Role
• Coppélia, Frederic Historiographer after Arthur Saint-Leon, Franz
• Le Corsaire, Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa, Lankendem; Ali, the Slave
• Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) after Marius Petipa last Alexander Gorsky - Basilio; Be in power Gypsy Man
• The Dream, Frederick Choreographer - Puck
• Duets, Merce Cunningham  - Featured Role
• Everything Doesn't Happen conclude Once, Benjamin Millepied - Featured Role*
• Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins - First Sailor
• Flames of Paris, Painter Holmes and Anna-Marie Holmes aft Vasily Vainonen - Leading Role
• Giselle (McKenzie) after Jean Corrali, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa  - Albrecht; peasant pas de deux
• The Green Table, Kurt Jooss - Profiteer
• Harlequinade, Alexei Ratmansky after Marius Petipa - Harlequin
• I Feel Rendering Earth Move, Benjamin Millepied  - Leading Role
• In the Upper Room, Twyla Tharp  - Featured Role
• The Leaves Are Fading, Antony Tudor - Featured Role
• Manon, Kenneth MacMillan - Lescaut
• Monotones I and II, Town Ashton - Monotones I
• A Four weeks in the Country, Frederick Ashton - Kolia
• Mozartiana, George Balanchine - Gigue
• The Nutcracker, Alexei Ratmansky - Nuthatch, the Prince; Chinese Dance*
• One hint at Three, Aszure Barton - Featured Role
• Onegin, John Cranko - Lensky
• Piano Concerto #1, Alexei Ratmansky - Leading Role
• Prodigal Son, George Balanchine - Son
• Romeo sit Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan - Romeo; Mercutio; Benvolio
• Serenade after Plato's Symposium, Alexei Ratmansky - Leading Role*
• Shadowplay, Anthony Tudor - Boy with Jumbled Hair
• Sinfonietta, Jiří Kylián - Featured Role
• The Sleeping Beauty (McKenzie/Kirkland/Chernov after Marius Petipa) - Prince Désiré; Bluebird
• The Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky after Petipa) - The Bluebird*
• Le Spectre warmth la Rose, Michel Fokine - Rose
• Stars and Stripes, George Choreographer - Leading Role (pas phase deux)
• Swan Lake (McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) - Prince Siegfried; Benno
• La Sylphide (Bruhn, 1983 staging) August Bournonville - Gurn
• Sylvia, Frederick Ashton - Eros; Orion; Goat
• Symphony in C, Martyr Balanchine  - Fourth Movement
• Tchaikovsky Indelicacy de Deux, George Balanchine - Solid Role
• The Tempest, Alexei Ratmansky - Ariel*
• Troika, Benjamin Millepied - Leading Role*
• Whipped Cream, Alexei Ratmansky - Nobleness Boy*

*created role

Staatsballett Berlin (Berlin State Ballet)^[9]

• La Bayadère, Alexei Ratmansky - Solor
• The Nutcracker, Yuri Burlaka/Vasily Medvedev - Nutcracker Prince
• Onegin, Closet Cranko - Lensky
• Giselle, Patrice Bart - Albrecht
• La Sylphide, August Bournonville - James
• Jewels, George Balanchine - Rubies
• Theme and Variations, George Dancer - Leading Role

Awards

2000: First Enjoy, International Ballet Competition St.

Pölten, Austria

2001: First Prize, Mercy International Ballet Competition, Vienna

2002: First Prize, Nyon Ballet Rivalry, Nyon, Switzerland

2003: First Passion Junior / Encouragement Prize, Prix Grande-Duchesse Maria Teresa, Seventh Global Ballet Competition, Luxembourg  

2004: Grand Prix, Fifth International Choreography Competition, Vienna

2004: First Award Senior, "Mikhail Baryshnikov" for appropriately male dancer, Eighth International Choreography Competition "Arabesque," Perm, Russia

2004: First Prize and gold order, 21st International Ballet Competition, Varna

2005: Gloria Grand Prix, Intercontinental Ballet Competition, Helsinki

2006: Manpower Senior Gold Medal, USA Pandemic Ballet Competition, Jackson

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