Leonid Sarafanov INDEX

1982

　Born in Kiev, June 1982

2000

　Graduated from the Kiev State School of Choreography
　Became a soloist with the ballet company of National Opera of Ukraine

　The company of Kiev
　"The Sleeping Beauty (Grigorovich's version)
　"Don Quixote"
　"Swan Lake"
　"Nutcracker"

　The Nureyev International Ballet Competition, Budapest
　Won the Silver Medal

　The International Ballet Competition in Paris
　Won the Gold Medal

2001

　The Moscow International Ballet Competition
　Won the first prize and the gold medal

2002

　Joined the Mariinsky Ballet from the ballet company in Kiev
　March 2002

　The Kirov company tour to Mexico City
　May 2002
　Injured his leg during his first performance of "Don Quixote"

　Age 20

　2002/3 season
　Autumn
　Company tour to Paris
　
　Company tour to Hong Kong
　Nov
　"Giselle"
　Made his debut as Albrecht
　
　Company tour to Switzerland

2003

　Role debut Harald Lander's "Etudes" The Kirov Ballet
　April 2003

　Role debut as Solor in the Soviet version of "La Bayadere"
　The Lowry Theatre in Manchester, UK
　April 2003

　St Petersburg 300th Anniversary Gala
　La Bayadere, Act III (D. Vishneva/Sarafanov/Corp de Ballet)
　May 2003
　サンクトペテルブルク建都３００年記念ガラ
　　2003年5月30日
　　バヤデール

　Age 21

　His first visit to London
　The first night Kirov's Covent Garden season
　Ali in "Le Corsaire"　
　June 2003 London
　9 August 2003
　Harald Lander's "Etudes"
　August London
　Solor for the first time in Sergei Vikharev's reconstructed version of "La Bayadere"
　June London

　Mariinsky Ballet Japan Tour 2003
　Nov 2003
　Nutcracker

2005

　Age 23

　New National Theatre in Tokyo
　Nutcracker guest dancer
　23, 25 Dec

2006

　Age 24

　Made his debut at La Scala in Milan as James in Pierre Lacotte’s version of La Sylphide

　Awarded the International Benois de la danse prize in 2006

　Mariinsky Theatre
　Don Quixote　(DVD)
　
　Mariinsky Ballet Japan Tour 2006
　　
　　Mariinsky All-Star Gala Performance
　　4 Dec.2006
　　　Grand Pas Classique
　　　Études

　　Le Corsaire
　　海賊
　　6 Dec. 2006
　　
　　Swan Lake
　　白鳥の湖

2007

　New National Theatre in Tokyo
　Roland Petit’s Coppelia as guest dancer
　18, 20 May 2007

　Age 25

　Acted in a film Nutcracker production by Mihail Chemiakin　2007

　TEATRO ALLA SCALA Japan Tour 2007
　　Don Quixote
　　June 8, 2007

　NBA Ballet Golden co-star Gala - as a guest dancer with Alina Somova
　4 Aug 2007 Tokyo
　Sleeping Beauty
　5 Aug 2007 Tokyo
　Don Quixote

Stars of Bolshoi & Mariinsky Gala 2007
ボリショイ・マリインスキー合同ガラ
　　Aug 2008
　　　ボリショイ
　　　
　　　マリインスキー


2008
　
　Age 26
　
2009

　The Mariinsky Ballet Festival
　March 2009
　Major world premiere of“The Little Humpbacked Horse”by Alexei Ratmansky
　Second cast of Ratmansky's premiere (March 15)
　Ivanushka：Leonid Sarafanov
　The Tsar-Maiden：Alina Somova
　The Little Humpbacked Horse：Grigory Popov
　The Tsar：Roman Skripkin

　Age 27

　The 12th World Ballet Festival 2009 in Tokyo
　　His first appearance in WBF
　　Aug. 2009　
　　　Programme A - Don Quixote
　　　
　　　Programme B - Le Corsaire
　　　
　　　Gala Programme - La Sylphide

　Mariinsky Ballet Japan Tour 2009
　　Nov - Dec 2009

　　Swan Lake (Full length)

　　Sleeping Beauty (Full length)
　
　　The Little Humpbacked Horse (Full length)

　　Gala - Day1
　　　George Balanchin:　Tarantella

　　Gala - Day2
　　　Grand Pas Classique

　Received a nomination for Best Dancer of the Golden Mask award in Russia by the little humpbacked horse
　8 Dec 2009
　　*The prize-giving ceremony for winners of the award will take place in Moscow on 16 April 2010

2010

　The Little Humpbacked Horse
　　2 and 3 March Mariinsky Theatre