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Veaceslav Burlac

Veaceslav Burlac

Demisoloist of The Czech National Ballet

Biography

Born in Chișinău and forged in both Moldavian flair and Russian rigor, this Prague-based demi-soloist brings combustible energy to every role. Still a student, he dazzled Spanish audiences as the Jester in Swan Lake and swept prizes across Eastern Europe, including a Grand Prix in Odessa and silver in Lviv.

A film cameo in Vladimír Drha’s Strawberries in the English Style (2008) preceded his debut with the State Opera Prague, where he shone as the Wedding Couple in Giselle, the flamboyant Camacho in Don Quixote and Alexei in The Sleeping Beauty – The Tsar’s Last Daughter, earning a Thalia Award long-list nomination. Since 2012 he has been a mainstay of the Czech National Ballet, slipping effortlessly from Cranko’s quick-silver Jester to Robbins’ swaggering Sailor, from Vámos’s devil-may-care Harlequin to the sinewy solitude of Naharin’s Decadance. Whether slicing through Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, powering Pastor’s Moving Rooms or turning Viktor Konvalinka’s Letostrach into a flash of mischievous lightning, he proves that virtuosity and theatrical wit can inhabit a single, electrifying dancer.

Classical Repertoire

  • La Bayadère – Magdavea, Bodhisattva (Javier Torres)

  • Coppélia – Ballet Doll (Ronald Hynd)

  • Don Quixote – Camacho, Flower Girl, Amor (Marius Petipa)

  • Giselle – Wedding Couple (John Cranko)

  • Swan Lake – Prince’s Companion (John Cranko)

  • The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story – Harlequins, Columbine, Waltz – solo, Russian Dance (Youri Vámos)

  • Romeo and Juliet – Mercutio, Entertainer (John Cranko)

Contemporary and Neoclassical Repertoire

  • Americana III – Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)

  • Beyond Vibrations – Moving Rooms (Krzysztof Pastor)

  • Bon Appétit! – Monsieur Pancake (Jan Kodet)

  • bpm – Bohemian Gravity (Yemi A.D.), Bill (Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar)

  • Brel – Vysockij – Kryl (Solo for Three) – (Petr Zuska)

  • Cinderella – Ball Guests, Four Mannequins (Jean-Christophe Maillot)

  • Dance On... The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story (open stage rehearsal) – Russians (Youri Vámos)

  • Fancy Free – Sailor (Jerome Robbins)

  • Kylián – Bridges of TimeSix Dances, Psalm Symphony (Jiří Kylián)

  • Ohad Naharin: Decadance – (Ohad Naharin)

  • The Sun, the Moon and the Wind – Fear of Flying (Viktor Konvalinka)

  • A Streetcar Named Desire – Soldier (John Neumeier)

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