1974-1979 Estonia State Opera and Ballet Company - Soloist Dancer
1979-1980 Perm Opera and Ballet Company - Principal Dancer
1980-1998 St. Petersburg Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Company - Principal Dancer and Teacher
1998-present Ballet Master, Universal Ballet Company, Seoul
Lead roles in: Paquita, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Swan Lake (Rothbart & Prince Siegfried), Giselle (Albrecht), Coppelia (Franz), Sleeping Beauty (Prince Desire), La Sylphide (James), Le Corsaire (Conrad), La Bayadere, Act III (Solor); La Fille Mal Gardee (Colin), Orpheus, Nutcracker (Prince), Cinderella (Prince), Les Sylphides (Poet), Scotch Symphony
Performed with many leading ballerinas, including Gabriela Komleva, Alla Sizova, Galina Mazentseva, Olga Chenchikova, Lubov Kunakova, Altynai Asylmuratova, Zhanna Ayupova, Julia Makhalina, Margarita Kullik, Ulyana Lopatkina
Worked with many well-known choreographers, including: Yury Grigorovich, Roland Petit, Maurice Bejart, Oleg Vinogradov, Boris Eifman, Ksian Goleizovsky, Mai Murdmaa, Dmitry Bryantsev, Konstantin Sergeev
Work as a Ballet Master and Coach includes:
Teaching Company Class
Staging and directing rehearsals from company repertory, including Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Rome & Juliet (Prokofiev / Vinogradov), Don Quixote, Giselle, Shim Chung (Pickard / Dellas), The Love of Chunghyang (Pickard / Yoo, Bae), Na Floresta (Duato), All Shall Be (Spoerli), Requiem (Commelin), La Sonnambula (Balanchine), Harlequinade (Vaganova), Onegin (Cranko)
Education
Completed Advanced Teacher's Training courses at the Vaganova Ballet Academy
Trained as a Professional Teacher of Classical and Character Dance in the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, as well as Choreography training program and Dance Heritage course (renewal and restoration of the classical ballet)
Studied the Checcetti Method