MERGALIYEV Yassaui Ilyasovich

Biography

30.12.1984, Turkestan, South Kazakhstan region.

Ballet dancer. Laureate of the State youth award "Daryn" (2006), Laureate of International Ballet Competitions.

Holder of the Scholarship of the Foundation of the I President of the RK (2007).

1994-2002 – student of the A.V. Seleznev ACS, teachers: V. E. Lukomsky, G. I. Shakirbaeva, S. Zh. Kasmanov, B. M. Jantayev, E. D. Malbekov.

2017-2021 – Bachelor program at SUSHPU, specialty "Folk Artistic Culture".

2002 – soloist of the Imperial Russian Ballet (Moscow, Russia).

2003-2005 – soloist of the ballet of the Abay SAOBT. Repertoire: Basil (“Don Quixote”), Prince (“The Nutcracker”), James (La Sylphide), Blue Bird (Sleeping Beauty), Jester (Swan Lake), Nurali (“The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”), Charlie (first performance, "Charlie"), insert pas-de-deux of act I ("Giselle"), Bacchus ("Walpurgis Night").

2006-2007 – guest soloist in foreign tours of the world's leading theaters: National Opera of Ukraine (Kyiv), Ballet municipal de Lima (Peru); Victor Ullate Ballet (Madrid, Spain).

2009 – at the invitation of Peoples Artist of Russia and Georgia N. Ananiashvili - leading artist of the Z. P. Paliashvili Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia).

2010 – leading soloist of Barcelona Ballet (Spain).

2011-2014 – leading soloist of the Croatian National Theater (Zagreb, Croatia).

2015 – he was invited by the American ballerina Patricia Barker to the Grand Rapids Ballet as a leading ballet dancer. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Participation in the projects: 2002 - Moscow International Ballet Festival "GrandPas", Moscow; 2003 - R. Nuriyev XVII International Festival of Classical Ballet, Kazan; 2003 - tour of the cities of France with the "Europa Danse" troupe; 2006 - International Festival "Stars of the World Ballet", Kyiv; 2010 - International Ballet Festival Inspoleto. Charleston, USA; 2019-2020 - performed at one of the largest venues in the UK, in the program of the BBC television channel The Greatest Dancer. Currently, the dancer is actively touring with the leading ballet troupes of Russia, Latin America, the USA, Great Britain.

Awards: Laureate of Yuri Grigorovich IV International Youth Competition of Classical Dance Performers "Fuete Artek" (I Prize, Crimea, Ukraine, 2001); Laureate of the V International competition of choreographic schools of Siberia (I Prize, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002); Laureate of Leonid Yakobson International Competition of Young Ballet Dancers (II Prize, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2002); Laureate of the V IBC (II Prize, Biarritz, France, 2003); Laureate of the VII International Festival of creative youth "Shabyt" (Grand Prix. Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2004); Finalist of IBC Nagoya, Japan, 2005); Laureate of the IBC (II Prize, Seoul, South Korea, 2005); Laureate of Serge Lifar VI IBC (II Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2006); Laureate of the IX Open competition of Russian ballet dancers "Arabesque-2006" (III Prize, Perm, Russia, 2006); Laureate of the XXII IBC (I Prize, Varna, Bulgaria, 2006); Laureate of the I Yuri Grigorovich International Competition "Young Ballet of the World" (II Prize, Sochi, Russia, 2006); Special Jury Prize of the International Ballet Competition Istanbul ( Turkey, 2010).

Honorary Diploma of the Akim of Almaty (2006); holder of scholarship from the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Leader of the Nation (2007); Honorary Diploma of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2021); medal "Kazakhstan Tauelsizdigine 30 zhyl" (2021).

Bibliography

• Personal correspondence of A.A. Mussinova with Yasawi Mergaliev.
• Photos of Yasawi Mergaliev from the dancer's personal archive.
• Photos of Vladimir Akulenko are provided by Abay KazNOBT.

Links

• Казахстанец бросил балет в Алматы и стал популярным в Англии: 11 февраля 2020, 19:47 - новости на Tengrinews.kz https://tengrinews.kz/life/kazahstanets-brosil-bal...
• Вера Седых. Балет «Бемби» впервые в Лондоне». Комменсартъ. 21 июня 2018г. АдресURL: https://www.kommersant.uk/articles/balet-bembi-vpe... (дата обращение: 23 октября 2021 года)