13 Facts About Yury Yanowsky

Yury Yanowsky was a principal dancer with the Boston Ballet.

Yury Yanowsky was born in Lyon, France to Russian ballet dancer Anatol Yanowsky and Spanish ballet dancer Carmen Robles, whom were both dancers with the Lyon Opera Ballet.

Yury Yanowsky is the older brother of former Royal Ballet principal dancer Zenaida Yanowsky and Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Nadia Yanowsky.

Yury Yanowsky was the recipient of the first prize at the Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland and won silver medals at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria and the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi.

Yury Yanowsky joined the corps de ballet at Boston Ballet in 1993 after seeing the company perform on tour in Spain.

Yury Yanowsky was promoted to the rank of principal dancer in 1999.

Yury Yanowsky danced secondary roles including Hilarion in Giselle, Lensky in Onegin, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, and Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly.

Yury Yanowsky danced with the Boston Ballet for twenty-two years before retiring from dancing to focus on his work as a choreographer.

Yury Yanowsky has choreographed numerous ballets for the Boston Ballet, Boston Ballet II, Bundes Jugend Ballet Hamburg, Ballet RI, Carlos Acosta's Premiere's Plus, and for international galas.

Yury Yanowsky was the guest choreographer for the Opening Night Gala for the Ballet Program at Jacob's Pillow Dance in 2016.

Yury Yanowsky serves on the faculty at Centro Coreographico and Las Palmas Spain and has as taught at Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Harvard University, and Colby College.

Yury Yanowsky married fellow Boston Ballet principal dancer Kathleen Breen Combes in 2010 at ceremony in the Canary Islands.

Yury Yanowsky has a son born in 1995, Yuri, who is a chef in Berlin.