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

Casting

The Sleeping Beauty - Prince Desiré
Oxford New Theatre
Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev – 16 October 7.30pm, 18 October 2.30pm

Southampton Mayflower
Daria Klimentová and Dmitri Gruzdyev – 2 November 2.30pm

Liverpool Empire
Daria Klimentová and Dmitri Gruzdyev – 27 November 7.30pm
Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev – 29 November 7.30pm

London Coliseum
Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev - 3, 11 December 7.30pm

Manon - Lescaut and Des Grieux
Bristol Hippodrome
Agnes Oaks**, Thomas Edur**, Dmitri Gruzdyev** – 22, 24 October 7.30pm (Lescaut)

Southampton Mayflower
Fernanda Oliveira**, Dmitri Gruzdyev**, Fabian Reimair – 5, 7 November 7.30pm (Des Grieux)

Manchester Palace
Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev, Daniel Kraus – 15 November 2.30pm (Des Grieux)

London Coliseum
Agnes Oaks, Thomas Edur, Dmitri Gruzdyev - 2 January 7.30pm (Lescaut)
Daria Klimentová, Friedemann Vogel, Dmitri Gruzdyev - 6 January 7.30pm (Lescaut)
Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina, Dmitri Gruzdyev - 10 January 7.30pm (Lescaut)
Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev, Fabian Reimair - 3 January 7.30pm (Des Grieux)
Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev, Daniel Kraus - 8, 10 January 2.30pm (Des Grieux)