Dmitry Gudanov

Dmitry Konstantinovich Gudanov is an Peoples Artist of Russia and principal dancer of Bolshoi Ballet.

Gudanov was bornJuly 1975 in Moscow, Russia. From 1985 to 1994 he attended Moscow Academic Choreography College, a class of Leonid Zhdanov, from which he graduated by 1994. After that, he joined Bolshoi Ballet and performed in his first act as one of the boys in the La Sylphide and in 1995 played a role of a male French doll in the Nutcracker. In 1996 he won a Danse Noble prize at the Permian Open Competition for Russian Ballet Dancers and in 1998 received a gold medal at the International Competition for Ballet Dancers in Paris.

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