Info

Senior Principal dancer

Birthplace
St Petersburg, Russia

Training
Vaganova Ballet Academy

Previous Companies
Kirov Ballet

English National Ballet
Joined 1993, Principal dancer 1997, Senior Principal dancer 2007

Favourite roles
Albrecht in Giselle, Solor in La bayadère

Career highlight
Working with Glen Tetley and Natalia Makarova and meeting Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev

Other info
First prize at the first Vaganova Ballet Competition (1988)

Personal info
Has two children with former dancer Sarah Arnott

" Balanchine's Apollo was impressive, with Dmitri Gruzdyev mesmeric as the imperious and narcissistic deity, all flexing muscles and contained power "
The Guardian