Erik Murzagaliyev

Erik Murzagaliyev

First Soloist

Erik Murzagaliyev was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He started training at the State Ballet School of Almaty. He was a trainee at the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet Almaty in the season 2007/2008. During 2009/2010 he was a member of the Cinevox Junior Company. In the season 2010/2011 he danced as a Trainee with the Bayerisches Staatsballett. From the 2011/2012 season until the 2015 he was Corps de ballet dancer with the Company. He was promoted to Soloist rank in the season 2015/2016, to First Soloist rank with the beginning of the season 2017/2018. With the end of the 2017/18 season Erik Murzagaliyev left the Bayerisches Staatsballett. (Information as of July 2018)

Debuts with the Bayerisches Staatsballett

Broken Fall (R. Maliphant)
BIPED (M. Cunningham)
Paris in Romeo and Juliet (J. Cranko)
Spiral Pass (R. Maliphant)
Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (J. Neumeier)
Lucien in Paquita (M. Petipa/A. Ratmansky)
Conrad in Le Corsaire (M. Petipa/I. Liška)
Soloist 1st movement in Symphony in C (G. Balanchine)
Adam is (A. Barton), creation
For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A piece by Pina Bausch (P. Bausch)
Gladiator/Spartan with the stick in Spartacus (Y. Grigorovich)
Crassus in Spartacus (Y. Grigorovich)
White-Swan-Pas de deux from Swanlake (M. Petipa/L. Iwanow)
Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (J. Cranko)
Solor in La Bayadère (M. Petipa/P. Bart)
Theseus / Oberon in A Midsummer Night´s Dream (J. Neumeier)
Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko)
Alexej Karenin in Anna Karenina (C. Spuck)
Don Quijote in Don Quijote (R. Barra/L. Minkus)
Onegin in Onegin (J. Cranko)
Dancer in Kairos und Sunyata - Portrait Wayne McGregor (W. McGregor)
Retinue of Andreas II in Raymonda (R. Barra, M. Petipa)

Past events with Erik Murzagaliyev

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