Anton Pimonov
Антон Пимонов
Choreographer
Anton Pimonov is a leading Russian choreographer in the neoclassical style and the Director of the Ballet Company at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 1999, he graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Yuri Umrikhin) and joined the Mariinsky Theatre. As a dancer, he performed solo roles in productions by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky, as well as in ballets by George Balanchine ("Prodigal Son", "Symphony in C", "Rubies", "Theme and Variations", "The Four Temperaments", "Piano Concerto No. 2") and William Forsythe ("Where the Golden Cherries Hang", "Approximate Sonata", "Steptext"). He performed in Russian premieres of works by Bronislava Nijinska, Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier, and Angelin Preljocaj. He was the first performer of roles in ballets by Pierre Lacotte, Alexei Ratmansky, Kirill Simonov, Alexei Miroshnichenko, Nikita Dmitrievsky, and Noa D. Gelber. He participated in the projects "Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion" and "Diana Vishneva: Dialogues".
He made his choreographic debut in 2012 at the Mariinsky Theatre. Among his six productions for the company, the ballet "Violin Concerto No. 2" to music by Prokofiev earned him the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the "Work of a Choreographer" category (2017).
His productions for other theatres include:
In 1999, he graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Yuri Umrikhin) and joined the Mariinsky Theatre. As a dancer, he performed solo roles in productions by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky, as well as in ballets by George Balanchine ("Prodigal Son", "Symphony in C", "Rubies", "Theme and Variations", "The Four Temperaments", "Piano Concerto No. 2") and William Forsythe ("Where the Golden Cherries Hang", "Approximate Sonata", "Steptext"). He performed in Russian premieres of works by Bronislava Nijinska, Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier, and Angelin Preljocaj. He was the first performer of roles in ballets by Pierre Lacotte, Alexei Ratmansky, Kirill Simonov, Alexei Miroshnichenko, Nikita Dmitrievsky, and Noa D. Gelber. He participated in the projects "Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion" and "Diana Vishneva: Dialogues".
He made his choreographic debut in 2012 at the Mariinsky Theatre. Among his six productions for the company, the ballet "Violin Concerto No. 2" to music by Prokofiev earned him the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the "Work of a Choreographer" category (2017).
His productions for other theatres include:
- "Ibéria" (Debussy), "In the Tempo of Dreams" (Prokofiev), "Romeo and Juliet" (Prokofiev) – all for the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre.
- "Luna Opposta" (John Adams) for Ballet Moscow.
- "Concert Dances" (Stravinsky) for the Perm Choreographic School.
- "Marimba Dances" (Rabinovitch-Barakovsky) for the Bavarian State Ballet (Munich).
- "Marriage for Fun" (Poulenc) and "Made in Bolshoi" (Korolyov) for the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow).
From 2017 to 2020, he served as Deputy Artistic Director of Vyacheslav Samodurov's Ural Ballet. For this Yekaterinburg company, he created the ballet "Brahms Party" and is preparing a new work to music by Leonid Desyatnikov. In the summer of 2021, the Ural Ballet will premiere "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Korolyov – a joint production by Anton Pimonov and Vyacheslav Samodurov.
