Alexei Ratmansky

Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky (, born August 27, 1968) is a Russian-Ukrainian-American choreographer and former ballet dancer. From 2004 to 2008 he was the director of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet. He left Russia in 2008. In 2009 he was appointed the artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre, and as artist in residence at the New York City Ballet from August 2023.

Training and performance career Ratmansky was born in Leningrad in Russia, Soviet Union, grew up in Kyiv, then in the Soviet Union, later the capital of independent Ukraine, and trained under Pyotr Pestov and Alexandra Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow.

In January 2023 the New York City Ballet announced that Ratmansky would join them as an artist in residence in August 2023.

Choreographed works

1988: La Sylphide-88, Duet-buff #1 & 2 1993: Pas de Graham 1994: The Fairy's Kiss, Alborada, Whipped Cream, 98 steps 1995: Hurluburlu, Poor Little Things 1996: Sarabande 1997: Charms of Mannerism, Capriccio, Krakowyak, Old Juniet's Carriol 1998: Dreams of Japan, Middle Duet, Poem of Extazy, Fairy's Kiss (2nd version) 1999: Water, Chrizantemums 2001: Turandot's Dream, Flight to Budapest, Leah, The Nutcracker 2002: Cinderella, Vers la Flamme, The Firebird 2003: The Bright Stream, Carnaval des Animaux, Bolero 2004: Anna Karenina, Leah (2nd version) 2005: The Bolt, Jeu de cartes 2006: Russian Seasons 2007: Le Corsaire (after Mazilier & Petipa, with Yuri Burlaka), Old Women Falling Out 2008: Biset Variations, Pierrot Lunaire, Concerto DSCH, Flames of Paris (after Vainonen) 2009: The Little Humpbacked Horse, Valse-Fantasie, On the Dnieper, Scuola di Ballo, Seven Sonatas 2010: Don Quixote (after Petipa & Gorsky), Namouna, Fandango, The Nutcracker (2nd version) 2011: Lost Illusions, Dumbarton, Psyche, Romeo & Juliet 2012: Souvenir d'un Lieu Cher, Symphonic Dances, The Firebird (2nd version), The Golden Cockerel, Symphony No. 9 2013: 24 Preludes, From Foreign Lands, Chamber Symphony, Piano Concerto No. 1, Cinderella (2nd version), Opera, The Tempest 2014: Tanzsuite, Pictures at an Exhibition, Rondo Capriccioso 2016: Serenade After Plato’s Symposium 2017: Whipped Cream, Odessa, Songs of Bukovina, 2019: The Seasons 2020: Voices, Of Love and Rage 2021: Bernstein in a Bubble 2022: Wartime Elegy, Tchaikovsky Overtures 2023: Coppélia 2024: La Séparation, Solitude 2025: Paquita, Trio Kagel, The Art of the Fugue 2026: The Naked King, Roses from the South, Wonderland, Hemi-Semi-Demi

Reconstructions 2014: Paquita 2015: The Sleeping Beauty 2016: Swan Lake 2018: Harlequinade, La Bayadère 2019: Giselle

Awards Ratmansky received the 2005 and 2014 Prix Benois de la Danse for choreography for, respectively, Anna Karenina, staged for the Royal Danish Ballet, and Shostakovich Trilogy and The Tempest, put on for the American Ballet Theatre. He also received the 2007 Golden Mask Award for Best Choreographer for Jeu de Cartes choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet.

In 2013, Ratmansky was named as the MacArthur Fellow of the year, an award that came with "genius grant" for "working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work". (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/900/)

In 2020, Ratmansky was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award