
Zdenek Konvalina
BALLET ARTIST
TEACHER · COACH · ASSISTENT· COLLABORATOR
BIO
Principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, Houston Ballet, and English National Ballet, as well as an international guest artist with leading companies around the world, including Dutch National Ballet (Amsterdam), Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Sarasota Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, National Ballet of Cuba, and Mikhailovsky Ballet (St. Petersburg), among others.
Konvalina danced a broad repertoire spanning classical, neoclassical, and contemporary works, including those by John Neumeier, Maurice Béjart, Jiří Kylián, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Rudolf Nureyev, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Nacho Duato, John Cranko, Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Maina Gielgud, James Kudelka, Peter Wright, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Christopher Bruce, and Crystal Pite.
Konvalina has been featured in major international galas and festivals, including the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo (2006, 2009), and toured Japan with Vladimir Malakhov and Friends. Other notable engagements include Dance Open, Opening Gala performance in Sochi Winter Olympics 2014, and the Diaghilev Festival in St. Petersburg, the Havana Ballet Festival, Hommage à Stravinsky, Stars of the 21st Century, and the Nijinsky Gala in Hamburg, among many others.
Konvalina won the Gold Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki in 2001 and is a recipient of the National Dance Award (UK) (London, 2013). He was also honoured with a Rolex Award in 2008 at the National Ballet of Canada.

REPERTOIRE
Jerome Robbins
Glass Peaces, In the Night , Opus 19,/The Dreamer, West Side Story, The Other Dances The Suite of Dances
Rudolf Nureyev
Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty
James Kudelka
Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake
Twyla Tharp
In the upper Room
Kenneth MacMillan
Manon, The Song of the Earth, Gloria, Sleeping Beauty
George Balanchine
Symphony in C , Don Quijote , Four Temperaments, Apollo, Serenade, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, La Valse, Theme and Variations, Western Symphony, Jewels
Wayne McGregor
Chroma
Ronald Hynd
Merry Widow
John Neumeier
The Seagull, Spring and Fall
Frederic Ashton
La Fille Mal Gardée
Maina Gielgud
Giselle
Christopher Wheeldon
Polyphonia, Prokofiev Pas De Deux, Alice in Wonderland
Derek Dean
Swan Lake, Gerschwin, An American in Paris, Impromptu Pas de Deux
Liam Scarlett
No Mans Land
Peter Wright
Giselle
Jiří Kylián
Sinfonietta, Soldier's Mass, Forgotten Land, Petit Mort
John Cranko
Onegin, Romeo and Juliet , Taming of the Shrew
Ben Stevenson
Swan Lake, Don Quijote, The Nutcracker, Esmeralda Pas de Deux, Dracula, Romeo and Juliette, Alice in Wonderland
Waine Eagling
The Nutcracker
Serge Lifar
Suite en Blanc
Harold Lander
Etudes
William Forsythe
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated , The Second Detail
Maurice Béjart
Songs of a Wayfarer, Greek Dances
Anna Marie Holmes
Le Corsaire
Christopher Hamson
The Nutcracker
Alicia Alonso
Swan Lake

CURRENT WORK
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Company Class
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Coaching - Soloist
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Coaching - Partnering
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