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Alexander Volchkov (Dancer) 
Biography
Born in Moscow. In 1997, having trained at the Moscow
Choreographic College (today the Moscow Choreographic Academy), in Leonid
Zhdanov’s class, he joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. His constant coach is
Vladimir Nikonov.
Main Repertory
1998
Trubadur (Romeo and Juliet.
Choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky)
Friend to the Prince (Swan
Lake. Vladimir Vasiliev production)
1999
Prince Fortune (The Sleeping Beauty. Yuri
Grigorovich production)
'Two pairs' in Part 4
(Symphony in C) - creation at Bolshoi Theatre
2001
Soloist (Passacaille to music by
Anton von Webern. Rolan Petit production) - creation at Bolshoi
Theatre
2002
Friend to
Ferkhad (A Legend of Love. Music by Arif Melikov. Yuri
Grigorovich production)
Count Albrecht (Giselle.
Yuri Grigorovich production; then Vladimir Vasiliev
production)
Soloist (Chopiniana)
2003
Phoebus (Notre-Dame de Paris. Rolan
Petit production) - creation at Bolshoi
Theatre
Jean de Brienne
(Raimonda. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Ferkhad
(A Legend of Love)
Paris (Romeo and
Juliet. Declan Donnelan and Radu Poklitary creation)
2004
The
Nutcracker-Prince (Nutcracker. Yuri Grigorovich
production)
Prince Desire (The Sleeping
Beauty)
Soloist Part 2 (Symphony in
C)
Crassus
(Spartacus)
Hannan (Lea to music by
Leonard Bernstein. Alexei Ratmansky production)
2005
Lysander (A Midnight's
Summer Dream. John Neumeier production) - creation at Bolshoi
Theatre
Hero (Les Presages to music
by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Leonide Massine)
Prince
Siegfried (Swan Lake. Yuri Grigorovich new
production)
2006
Boris (The Golden
Age. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Yuri Grigorovich production)
2007
Soloist in Dance with Fans
(Le Corsaire Adolphe Adam; choreography Marius Petipa, production and new
choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka)
Class
Concert (to music by different composers; choreography by
Asaf Messerer)
Basilio (Don Quixote, choreography by
Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by Alexei Fadeyechev)
2008
Solor (La Bayadere. Yuri
Grigorovich production)
Philippe (Boris Asfiev's The
Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
after Vasily Vainonen) - creation
Lucien d'Hervilly
(Paquita. Staging and new choreographic version by Yuri
Burlaka)
Couple in Red (Russian Seasons. Music by
Leonid Desyatnikov, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky)
2009
Lambda (Emiliano Palmieri's
Zakharova Super Game. Choreography by Francesco Ventriglia) -
creation
Phoebus (Esmeralda
by Cesare Pugni, choreography by Marius Petipa, staging and new choreographic
version by Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev)
Tours
In 2002, he danced the title role in Yuri Grigorovich's Romeo
and Juliet for the Kremlin Ballet Company - in a performance to mark
the choreographer's jubilee. In the same year, he appeared with the Tbilisi
Theatre of Opera and Ballet, dancing Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake
(Konstantin Sergeyev production) and the Prince in The Nutcracker
(choreography - Yuri Grigorovich). In 2003, he took part in the Rudolf Nureyev
Festival of Ballet in Ufa, where he appeared in The Sleeping Beauty
and danced the title role in Romeo and Juliet (choreography - Yuri
Grigorovich).
Awards
In 2001, he won the
2nd prize at the International Competition of Young Ballet Dancers,
in Kazan.
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