1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Yuri Zhukov , Vitalisvågen 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 112 55. +46 070 426 2183 zhukovdance@gmail.com
Current Employment
Royal Swedish Ballet. Stockholm, Sweden. Ballet Master.
Previous Employment
Zhukov Dance Theatre, San Francisco, USA, Artistic Director, Choreographer 2008 - 2013
City Ballet School, San Francisco, USA, Choreographer 2003 - 2012
San Francisco Ballet School, San Francisco, USA, Member of the faculty 2003 - 2005
Professional Dance Experience
Principal Dancer, Birmingham Royal Ballet , UK 1995 - 1999
Principal Dancer, San Francisco Ballet, USA 1989 - 1995
Soloist, Kirov Ballet , Russia 1982 - 1989
Roles Performed
Prince in Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake. Albrecht in Giselle, James in La Sylphides, Colas in
La Fille Mal Garde, Poet in Les Sylphides. Principal Roles in Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, Agon, Four
Temperaments, Serenade, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements and Orpheus. Also in Dark Elegies by
Tudor, In the Night by Robbins, Elite Syncopations by MacMillanand roles in ballets by James Kudelka and David
Bintley
Additional Experience
Choreographer, Set Designer: MW, Passing, Pioneer Plaques, Shared and Divided, Cinematic, Dreams Recycled,
Coin/c/dance for Zhukov Dance Theatre
Choreographer, Set Designer, Costume Designer for City Ballet School: Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker,
Classical Symphony, Class Concert, Carnaval of the Animals, With Time We Go, Rolling The Dice, The Tale of
Gnomes, Bolero.
Ballet Master on productions of Giselle (Makarova), Push Comes to Shove (Tharp), The Second Detail (Forsythe),
Annonciation (Preljocaj), and Swan Lake (Sir Peter Wright), Don Quixote (Nureev) Royal Swedish Ballet
Choreographer, Railroad Joint. Company C, 2013

2. Choreographer, Prologue to a Gala with Students from the Royal Swedish Ballet School Gothenburg Ballet, 2010
Projection Design, Classical Symphony. San Francisco Ballet, 2010
Set Designer, Medea, Perm Ballet Production, Russia, 2008
Set Designer, The Firebird, Oregon Ballet Theater Production, 2005 San Francisco Ballet Production, 2006
Choreographer and Costume Designer, Till the Last Sound and After, 59 North - Touring group of Royal Swedish
Ballet, 2002
Choreographer and Costume Designer, Evolving Summit, English National Dance Youth Company, 1999
Choreographer and Costume Designer, Vesalli Icones, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, 1998
Choreographer and Costume Designer, Winter from Four Seasons, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1997
Choreographer and Costume Designer, True Story in Five Pictures, San Francisco Ballet Workshop, 1994
Choreographer and Costume Designer, Carmen, San Francisco Ballet School, 1993
Guest Teacher
Gothenberg Ballet, Cullberg Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, San Francisco Ballet
Awards
Isadora Duncan Awards Nomination for the Outstanding Achievement in Choreography 2009 for Pioneer Plaques,
Zhukov Dance Theatre
Isadora Duncan Awards Nomination for the Best Ensemble Performance 2008 for Passing, Zhukov Dance Theatre
Best Choreography for With Time We Go 2007 RDF Festival, Long Beach, CA