• Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation
• Recipient of
the State Prize of Russia
• Prize-winner at All-Union Choreographersґ
Competitions (1984, 1988)
• Recipient of the Golden Mask
prize for the production of Lost in the Stars (Theatre
on Liteiny)
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and from
the choreography department of the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatoire in 1984, in addition to completing Advanced Directing
Courses of the Ministry of Culture in 1986.
Has worked with
directors including Grigory Kozlov, Grigory Dityatkovsky, Alexander
Galibin and Sergei Spivak as well as Andrei Konchalovsky and Yuri
Alexandrov and conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Has
worked with theatres in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
the UK, Italy, Spain and the USA.