Vladimir Muravlev

Vladimir Muravlev (Russian: Владимир Муравлёв) is a Russian ballet dancer, born January 10, 1974 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). He is a grandson of Ural Tansykbayev. He has a degree in Performing Arts from the Uzbek Academic Ballet School (1993) under the tutelage balletmaster Kurkmas Sagatov; RATI - GITIS (2007). He is currently a Principal Dancer with the Moscow Classical Ballet.

Mr. Muravlev has partnered with some of today’s most renown ballerinas, including Tamara Rojo, Galina Shlyapina, Lyudmila Vasilieva, Ekaterina Berezina, Olga Pavlova, Marina Rzhannikova.

Debutes

1996 - Count Almaviva in Dmitry Bryantsev's "Bravo!Figaro" (based on Beaumarchais' Mariage de Figaro) at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet)

1997 - Count Albrecht in "Giselle" at The State Academic Alisher Navoi Opera & Ballet Theatre (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, dedicated to the 50-year anniversary of the Uzbek Academic Ballet School 1998 - Prince in Derek Deane's "The Nutcracker" at the English National Ballet in London (United Kingdom)

1998 - Prince / Prince's Friend in Michael Corder's "Cinderella" at the English National Ballet in London (United Kingdom)

2002 - Prince Siegfried in Irek Mukhamedov's new production of "Swan Lake" at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera (Warsaw, Poland)

Roles

* Prince Désiré / The Bluebird - "Sleeping Beauty" "(AKA - La Belle au Bois dormant)"

* Prince Siegfried / Benno / Venetian Dance (soloist) - "Swan Lake",

* Prince / Tanzmeister - "Cinderella"

* Count Albrecht - "Giselle"

* Nutcracker Prince - "The Nutcracker"

* Basil / Gamache - "Don Quixote"

* Mercutio / Paris- "Romeo and Juliet"

* Colas - "La Fille Mal Gardée"

* Marcus Lucinius Crassus - "Spartacus"

* Pushkin, the Poet - "Pushkin (AKA - Pushkin – Reflections of the Poet)"

* Rudi - "Le Baiser de la fée (AKA - The Fairy’s Kiss; The Ice Maiden)"

* Mandarin - "The Miraculous Mandarin"

* Lead Role - "Strauss-Gala (AKA - The Tricks of Terpsichore)"

* "Narcissus"

Awards

* 1994 - International Ballet Competition «Arabesque» (Perm, Russia) / Bronze Medal

* 1997 - Moscow International Ballet Competition (Moscow, Russia) / Diploma

* 1997 - World Art Festival (Los Angeles, United States) /Champion of World Art Festival - Grand Prix and Gold Medal

* 2002 - International Festival of Dance & Music (Bangkok, Thailand) / Prize for Elegance by Swiss watch company " LONGINES"

* 2006 - Medal "Honour and advantage" of the International Welfare Foundation ART'S PATRONS OF CENTURY

External links

* [http://vladimirmuravlev.narod.ru Official web site of Vladimir Muravlev]
* [http://classicalballet.ru Official web site of Moscow Classical Ballet] (in Russian)