Andrey Kaydanovskiy

Biography

Born in Moscow. Completed his education at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, St.Pölten Ballet Conservatory, John Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart and at the Ballet Academy of the Wiener Staatsoper. In 2007, he joined the Wiener Staatsoper ballet company and Volksoper Ballet. In 2015, he was promoted to Demi Soloist.

His repertory included: Madge in Pierre Lacotte's La Sylphide, Zauberer Rotbart in Rudolf Nureyev's Schwanensee, Gamache in Nureyev's Don Quixote, Hilarion in Elena Tschernischova’s Giselle, Blaubarts Alter Ego in Stephan Thoss’ Blaubart, Egeus in Jorma Elo's Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Tod/ Arthur Schnitzler in Ashley Page's Ein Reigen, Witwe Simone in Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Monsieur G.M. in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, Graf Larisch in MacMillan’s Mayerling, Rose in Michael Corder’s Die Schneekönigin, das Schicksal in Patrick de Bana’s Marie Antoinette; alongside the roles in Paul Lightfoot's und Sol León's Skew-Whiff, Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces, George Balanchine's Rubies and Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Twyla Tharp's Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Alexander Ekman's Cacti, Jean-Christophe Maillot's Vers un pays sage, Thierry Malandain’s Mozart à 2 and Natalia Horecna's Contra Clockwise Witness, in which he has created the roles of the Seele and Prinzipien.

He also worked as a choreographer for the Wiener Staatsballett (Zeitverschwendung and Das hässliche Entlein, both in 2013) and also danced in his performances Drei unbekannte (2009) and Love Song (2013). In 2016, his piece Tea or Coffee was premiered at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. In 2017, he created Reversal to a composition on commission by Michel van der Aa for the Hamburg National Youth Ballet. On 28 April the premiere of his piece Der Feuervogel took place at the Wiener Staatsballett. On 30 June 2017, his piece Discover was premiered within the Young Choreographers Gala Night at the Bavarian State Ballet.