Amanda Gomes and Mikhail Timaev in Pas de six from Esmeralda

Amanda Gomes (Benois-2018 nominee) and Mikhail Timaev (Tatar Opera Ballet Theatre Named After Musa Mit) Alina Kaicheva, Saori Koike, Valeria Pobedinskaya, Ekaterina Chekrygeva (The Kremlin Ballet) in Pas de six from Esmeralda, music by Riccardo Drigo, choreography by Marius Petipa. Benois de la Danse 2018, World Ballet Stars and Nominees to the Prize concert, shot on 5.6.2018 in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.

Amanda Gomes is currently with Kazan Ballet (Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, named after Musa Jalil). She graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School in Brazil. She joined the Tatar Musa Jalil Academic State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as soloist, in 2014.

Mikhail Timaev s currently with Kazan Ballet (Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, named after Musa Jalil). In 2005 he completed his studies at Kazan Ballet College (class of People’s artist of Tatarstan V.N.Bortyakov). While still a student he joined the Ballet Company of the Tatar Musa Jalil State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Diploma-winner at the Arabesque International Competition of Ballet Dancers, in Perm (2008); winner of 3rd prize and bronze medal at the 11th International Competition of Ballet Dancers and choreographers in Moscow (2009); in May 2010 he was awarded a prize by the TÜRKSOY International Organization for the Development of Turkic Culture and Art. In 2012 he won the Soul of Dance prize in the Up and Coming Star nomination.

Photos by Jack Devant Ballet Photography with kind permission of the Benois de la Danse and Bolshoi Theatre, special thanks to Nina Kudriavtseva-Loory.