Guest Faculty - 2022 Summer Intensive
Director, Choreographer, Teacher
Ivan Kozlov is a former Premier of the National Opera of Ukraine, The St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet, IBT (Internationale Ballet Theater), and the Mariinsky Theater. He graduated from the KGHU (Kiyv State Choreographic School), under the tutelage of the Honored Artist of Ukraine, Vladimir Denisenko, and was invited to join the ballet troupe of the National Opera of Ukraine. He was simultaneously invited to the world-famous troupe of Boris Eifman in St. Petersburg; and worked as an artist in both troupes. During his work in the theater of B. Eifman, Ivan performed the leading roles in the following repertoire: “Red Giselle”, “Don Quixote”, “Russian Hamlet”, “Anna Karenina”, and “The Brothers Karamazov”. In the troupe of the National Opera of Ukraine, he performed the leading roles in the ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, Spartacus, Don Quixote, Viennese Waltz, and many others.
From 2007 to 2010, he was the premier of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, where he performed leading roles in nearly the entire repertoire of the theater, as well as in numerous concerts.
Ivan is a laureate of many ballet competitions, including the Serge Lifar International Competition, and the X Moscow International Competition, and he also worked under contract as a leading soloist of the “Internationale Ballet Theater” in the United States.
Ivan Kozlov studied with some of the most outstanding dancers of the 20th century: People’s Artist of the USSR, Irina Kolpakova, People’s Artist of the USSR Vladlilen Semenov, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Sergei Berezhnoi, Premier of the Mariinsky Theater, Eldar Aliyev, and Honored Artist of Ukraine, Anatoly Kozlov.
Since 2014, Ivan has been the executive of the Kiev City Ballet (KCB) with which he has successfully toured Europe and the world.
