Sergei Vikharev

Sergei Vikharev is a Russian choreographist.

Biography

A Saint Petersburg-born Vikharev graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and the same year won a prize in Varna at the International Ballet Competition. Due to that, the same year he have joined Mariinsky Theatre and became its principal six years later. Prior to it, in 1985, he also won a prize on another competition, this time in Moscow and by 2002 became an Honoured Artist of Russia. In 1999 he first appeared in a play called Sleeping Beauty which was a reconstruction of the play of the same name made in 1890, and next year played in another reconstructed play called Petrushka. In 2004 he was a dancer in an opera called A Life for the Tsar and in 2006 played a role of Fokines Chopiniana in a play called Carnaval and Polovtsian Dances at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Kazakhstan. In 2007, he appeared in a reconstruction of 1894 play by Petipa-Ivanov called Le reveil de Flore for which he won a Golden Mask Award and the same year player a role of Fokines Scheherazade in the Polovtsian Dances and Carnaval. His latest appearance was in a play called Carnaval in which participated in 2008.