Xander Parish
May 23, 1987 (Yorkshire, Great Britain)
Ballet dancer
- Principal Dancer
- Founder of Ballet Class (balletclass.com)
Xander began dancing at the age of 8, at the Skelton-Hooper School of Dance in Kingston upon Hull, under the direction of principal and former Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet Theatre soloist, Vanessa Hooper. In 1998, he was accepted into the Royal Ballet School, first attending the lower school at White Lodge, Richmond Park, then continuing his training at the upper school.
He graduated into the Royal Ballet in 2005, as a member of the corps de ballet. He remained with the company for five years – between 2006 and 2009, he toured with the company to Spain, Mexico, the USA, Turkey, China, Japan and Cuba, before joining the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, Russia in January 2010. He made his debut with the company performing the role of the poet in the ballet Chopiniana as a Coryphee, a corp member who may dance solo or even principal roles. He was promoted to soloist in March 2014 and principal dancer in July 2017. Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to Germany, the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.
In early March 2022, Parish decided to temporarily leave Russia. In August, he joined the Norwegian National Ballet.
REPERTOIRE INCLUDES*:
- Giselle (Count Albrecht); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
- Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried, the Prince’s Friends); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev
- La Sylphide (Youths); choreography by August Bournonville, revised version by Elsa-Marianne von Rosen
- The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev
- Raymonda (Jean de Brienne, Béranger); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev
- Le Corsaire (Conrad); Pyotr Gusev’s production based on the composition and choreography by Marius Petipa
- Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Youth) and Scheherazade (Zobeide’s Slave)
- The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Vaslav, Polish Youths); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov
- The Nutcracker (Nutcracker-Prince, Elegant Cavaliers, Rose Waltz); choreography by Vasili Vainonen
- Spartacus (Satyr); choreography by Leonid Yakobson
- Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Paris, Troubadour); choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky
- Études; choreography by Harald Lander
- George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Apollo), Serenade, Symphony in C, Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ballet Imperial), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius)
- Frederick Ashton’s ballets Sylvia (Aminta) and Marguerite and Armand (Armand)
- In the Night; choreography by Jerome Robbins
- Hans van Manen’s ballets Adagio Hammerklavier and Variations for Two Couples
- Anna Karenina (Count Vronsky, Tushkevich), Concerto DSCH; choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
- Benjamin Millepied’s ballets Without and La nuit s’achève
- Le Parc (Soloist); choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
- Infra; choreography by Wayne McGregor
- Intensio; choreography by Yuri Smekalov
- Paquita (Andrés); choreography by Yuri Smekalov, reconstruction and staging of Marius Petipa’s choreography by Yuri Burlak
- The Four Seasons; choreography by Ilya Zhivoi
- Russian Overture; choreography by Maxim Petrov
- Second Ι; choreography by Ksenia Zvereva.
Repertoire also includes:
- The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré, Act III); choreography by Marius Petipa, revival of the 1890 production, staging by Sergei Vikharev
- Scheherazade (Slave); choreography by Michel Fokine.
*mariinsky.ru
