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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.

 

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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

  • Company Class

  • Coaching - Soloist

  • Coaching - Partnering

  • Assisting Choreographers

  • Staging Repertoire​​

      
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Zdenek Konvalina

Ballet Artist · Teacher · Coach

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