19 Facts About Ivan Putrov

Ivan Oleksandrovych Putrov is a Ukrainian-born ballet dancer and producer.

Ivan Putrov trained at The Kyiv State Choreographic Institute and at The Royal Ballet School.

Ivan Putrov has continued to dance with companies around the world, to organize dance events and to teach.

Ivan Putrov appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 10 in the ballet "The Forest Song".

Ivan Putrov spent 18 months at the Royal Ballet School and on graduation in 1998 was invited by the Royal Ballet's director, Anthony Dowell, to join the company itself.

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Ivan Putrov was offered a principal's contract with the Kyiv Ballet, but turned it down and decided to join the Royal Ballet, as an artist; he began to dance roles such as the Nutcracker prince, the Boy with the Matted Hair in Shadowplay and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet.

Ivan Putrov danced many performances as the Nephew in Peter Wright's production of The Nutcracker and added roles in Romeo and Juliet, The Concert, and Giselle.

Ivan Putrov was coached by Dowell for his debut as Beliaev in A Month in the Country in 2001 and added Basilio in Don Quixote to his repertoire.

Ivan Putrov won the National Dance Award for Outstanding Young Male Artist the same year.

In Sam Taylor-Wood's 2004 film installation "Strings", Ivan Putrov danced suspended by a harness above four musicians playing the slow movement from Tchaikovsky's Second String Quartet, filmed in the Crush Bar of the Royal Opera House.

Ivan Putrov appeared in the film installation The Butcher's Shop, commissioned by Kimbell Art Museum, in which Philip Haas recreated the 1582 Annibale Carracci painting of the same name, first seen in 2008 at the Sonnabend Gallery of New York.

In 2006 Ivan Putrov himself suffered an injury in an onstage fall, which led to a lengthy leave from dancing.

Ivan Putrov created the role of Karl in The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 2011, and was credited in the early development of the work.

In 2012 Ivan Putrov choreographed his first major creation for the stage entitled Ithaca, using La Peri by Paul Dukas.

Ivan Putrov has appeared with national ballet companies in Hungary, Lithuania and Ukraine, and appeared at the Vienna Staatsoper.

Since leaving the Royal Ballet, Ivan Putrov has planned the 'Men in Motion' ballet programmes, which were originally mounted in London and have since toured to Warsaw, Moscow, Lodz and Milan.

In 2019 Ivan Putrov produced a programme 'Against the Stream' designed as "a tribute to remarkable choreographers who changed the ecology of dance beyond recognition"; he danced in the Ashton and Macmillan performed.

Ivan Putrov has danced the roles of the swan and the prince in the Matthew Bourne version of Swan Lake.

On film and DVD, Ivan Putrov has featured in The Nutcracker and as a lead dancer in Scenes de ballet and danced Le Spectre de la Rose in the 2006 BBC film Riot at the Rite.