Ruslan Skvortsov

Ruslan Vasilyevich Skvortsov (; born 31 January 1980) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Biography Ruslan Skvortsov was born in Yelets, Lipetsk Oblast, where he received his early training from Elena Timofeyeva, and then studied at the Moscow Choreographic Academy with Vyacheslav Mikhaylov. Upon his graduation in 1998 he joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where he has worked under the tutelage of Valery Lagunov and Nikolai Fadeyechev. In 2001 he was awarded a bronze medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. He was appointed to the rank of principal dancer in October 2009 and was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of Russia in April 2014.

Skvortsov made his debut as the soloist of the Fourth Movement of George Balanchine's Symphony in C in 1999 and danced his first leading role in an evening-length ballet, Little Count Cherry in Cipollino, in 2000, followed by the Poet in Michel Fokine's Chopiniana in 2001. He first danced Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake in 2002, followed by debuts as Count Albrecht in Giselle, Lord Wilson/Ta-Hor in The Pharaoh's Daughter, Claude Frollo in Roland Petit's Notre-Dame de Paris and the Ballet Dancer in Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream in 2003. In 2004 Skvortsov first danced Jean de Brienne in Raymonda and Balanchine's Agon, and in 2005 he performed the Miller in Léonide Massine's The Three-Cornered Hat, the Hero in Massine's Les Présages and Demetrius in John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream. and in 2022 he made his debut as Drosselmeyer in Grigorovich's The Nutcracker.

With the Bolshoi Ballet Skvortsov has performed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, South Africa and Australia. His guest appearances have included performing Swan Lake

Repertoire La Sylphide (choreography: Johan Kobborg, after August Bournonville): James Giselle (choreography: Vladimir Vasiliev, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Sergei Vikharev, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Galina Boreyko, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Konstantin Sergeyev, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Leonid Lavrovsky, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Ludmila Semenyaka, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Kirill Shmorgomer, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Giselle (choreography: Gamar Almaszadeh, after Jean Corali and Jules Perrot): Count Albrecht Coppélia (choreography: Sergei Vikharev, after Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti): Frantz (first interpreter at the Bolshoi) Swan Lake (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich, after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov): Prince Siegfried Swan Lake (choreography: Rafael Samorukov, after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov): Prince Siegfried Swan Lake (choreography: Konstantin Sergeyev, after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov): Prince Siegfried Swan Lake (choreography: Kyozo Mitani and Terry Westmoreland, after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov): Prince Siegfried Swan Lake (choreography: Alexei Fadeyechev, after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov): Prince Siegfried The Sleeping Beauty (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich, after Marius Petipa): Prince Désiré Raymonda (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich, after Marius Petipa): Jean de Brienne La Bayadère (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich, after Marius Petipa): Solor Don Quixote (choreography: Alexei Fadeyechev, after Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky): Espada Le Corsaire (choreography: Yuri Burlaka and Alexei Ratmansky, after Marius Petipa): Conrad, grand pas des eventails Esmeralda (choreography: Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev, after Marius Petipa): Phoebus (first interpreter at the Bolshoi) Paquita, grand pas (choreography: Yuri Burlaka, after Marius Petipa): Lucien d’Hervilly (first interpreter at the Bolshoi) The Pharaoh's Daughter (choreography: Pierre Lacotte): Lord Wilson/Ta-Hor The Nutcracker (choreography: Vasily Vainonen): Nutcracker Prince The Nutcracker (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich): Nutcracker Prince, Drosselmeyer Spartacus (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich): Crassus Romeo and Juliet (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich): Romeo The Golden Age (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich): Boris Notre-Dame de Paris (choreography: Roland Petit): Claude Frollo Onegin (choreography: John Cranko): Onegin A Midsummer Night’s Dream (choreography: John Neumeier): Demetrius The Lady of the Camellias (choreography: John Neumeier): Des Grieux, M. Duval The Bright Stream (choreography: Alexei Ratmansky): Ballet Dancer Flames of Paris (choreography: Alexei Ratmansky, after Vasily Vainonen): Antoine Mistral (first interpreter), Marquis de Beauregard, Louis XVI A Hero of Our Time (choreography: Yuri Possokhov): Pechorin, in "Princess Mary" (first interpreter) The Seagull (choreography: Yuri Possokhov): Sorin (first interpreter) Asuka (choreography: Asami Maki): Iwatari Chopiniana (choreography: Michel Fokine): Poet Afternoon of a Faun (choreography: Vaslav Nijinsky): Faun The Three-Cornered Hat (choreography: Léonide Massine): Miller Les Présages (choreography: Léonide Massine): The Hero Carmen Suite (choreography: Alberto Alonso): Don José Gaîté Parisienne (choreography: Maurice Béjart): My Father, My Hero (first interpreter at the Bolshoi) Symphony in C (choreography: George Balanchine): Second Movement soloist, Third Movement soloist, Fourth Movement soloist Agon (choreography: George Balanchine): pas de deux Jewels (choreography: George Balanchine): "Emeralds" Passacaille (choreography: Roland Petit; Bolshoi premiere) Magrittomania (choreography: Yuri Possokhov) Misericordes (choreography: Christopher Wheeldon; world premiere) Dream of Dream (choreography: Jorma Elo; world premiere)

Filmography Strictly Bolshoi, Bolshoi Ballet, 2007 (documentary includes a complete performance of Christopher Wheeldon's Misericordes) Flames of Paris (choreography: Alexei Ratmansky), Bolshoi Ballet, 2010: as Antoine Mistral, with Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Nina Kaptsova, Denis Savin, Anna Antonicheva and Yuri Klevtsov Swan Lake (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich), Bolshoi Ballet, 2010: as Prince Siegfried, with Maria Alexandrova and Nikolay Tsiskaridze Symphony in C (choreography: George Balanchine), Bolshoi Ballet, 2010: as the Fourth Movement soloist, with Myriam Ould-Braham Esmeralda (choreography: Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev), Bolshoi Ballet, 2011: as Phoebus, with Maria Alexandrova, Ekaterina Krysanova and Denis Savin Le Corsaire (choreography: Yuri Burlaka and Alexei Ratmansky), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as Conrad, with Svetlana Lunkina and Nina Kaptsova The Bright Stream (choreography: Alexei Ratmansky), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as the Ballet Dancer, with Svetlana Lunkina, Maria Alexandrova and Mikhail Lobukhin Raymonda (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as Jean de Brienne, with Maria Alexandrova and Pavel Dmitrichenko The Pharaoh's Daughter (choreography: Pierre Lacotte), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as Lord Wilson/Taor, with Svetlana Zakharova, Nina Kaptsova and Denis Medvedev Don Quixote (choreography: Alexei Fadeyechev), Bolshoi Ballet, 2016: as Espada, with Ekaterina Krysanova, Semyon Chudin and Anna Tikhomirova The Golden Age (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich), Bolshoi Ballet, 2016: as Boris, with Nina Kaptsova, Mikhail Lobukhin and Ekaterina Krysanova A Hero of Our Time (choreography: Yuri Possokhov), Bolshoi Ballet, 2017: as Pechorin, in "Princess Mary", with Svetlana Zakharova, Kristina Kretova and Denis Savin The Nutcracker (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich), Bolshoi Ballet, 2024: as Drosselmeyer, with Elizaveta Kokoreva and Artem Ovcharenko