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“In my work I develop characters, with thoughts and feelings. Perfection in technique, precision, steps and combinations thereof, are necessary requirements to be able to focus on what one wants to express with these means.” —Andrey Kaydanovskiy
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Andrey Kaydanovskiy
Andrey Kaydanovskiy is an Austrian choreographer and dancer with Russian roots, currently residing in Vienna. After completing his training at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera, he joined the ballet company of the Vienna State Opera in 2007. In 2015, he was promoted to demi-soloist. At the end of the 2021/22 season, he retired from his active dancing career to fully dedicate himself to his choreographic projects.
Andrey debuted his first choreography, Drei Unbekannte (Three Unknowns), in 2009 as part of the ballet club of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper at choreo.lab 09. This was followed by Love Song in 2014, which was later performed by the Bolshoi Ballet (2018) and the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg (2020).
He has created several works for the Vienna State Ballet, including Zeitverschwendung (Waste of Time) in April 2013, Das hässliche Entlein (The Ugly Duckling) in October 2013, and Der Feuervogel (The Firebird) in 2017. In February 2022, he choreographed lux umbra at the Vienna Volksoper, followed by the premiere of Jolanthe & der Nussknacker (Jolanthe & the Nutcracker) in October 2022, a collaborative artistic work with Lotte de Beer.
Internationally, Andrey's work has garnered significant recognition, particularly with Tea or Coffee which premiered in 2016 at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow and was nominated in two categories for the prestigious Russian theatre award 'The Golden Mask'. Pajama Party, which also premiered in Moscow in 2018, received five nominations for the 'Golden Mask'.
In 2017, he began his collaboration with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, where he served as a resident choreographer from 2019 to 2022. He achieved success with works such as Cecil Hotel (2019), which was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse 2020, and Der Schneesturm (The Blizzard) (2021), a full-length narrative ballet set to a commissioned composition by Lorenz Dangel, which premiered at the National Theatre in Munich.
Other notable works include Perfect Example (2018) for the Czech National Ballet, the choreography for the ballet segments of the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert (2019), and Die kahle Sängerin (The Bald Soprano) (2021) for the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg. Most recently, in 2024, he premiered Chalk for the Ballett am Rhein.
At the Origen Festival Cultural in Switzerland, he has created full-length works that include Passengers (2021), Choice, Judgment and Control (2023), and Beef (2024) with live music by Christof Dienz.
His new version of Sleeping Beauty was premiered at the Linz Music Theatre in Austria in December 2022.
Andrey's accolades include the 'Special Prize' as 'Best Dance Theatre Performer and Choreographer' at the choreography competition during the International Dance Festival TANZOLYMP 2015, as well as the 'German Dance Award 2016' in the 'Future' category. In the 2016 yearbook of the dance magazine 'tanz', he was highlighted as 'a promising talent' for his exceptional and narrative dance style.