Kimin Kim

Kimin Kim
October 28, 1992 (South Korea)
Ballet dancer

The Mariinsky Theatre Principal Dancer.
Kimin became the principal dancer at 22 y.o. – the youngest principal dancer ever in the theatre.
Recipient of the award “Dog.ru TOP 50 Most famous people of St. Petersburg” 2020.

Kimin Kim was born in Seoul and trained at the Korea National University of the Arts under Vladimir Kim and Margarita Kulik. Kim joined the Mariinsky Ballet in December 2011 and he was a trainee for a half a year.

At the Mariinsky Theatre he made his debut as Ali in the ballet Le Corsaire (coached by Viktor Baranov). From 2012 he was a soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet and since 2015 he has been a principal dancer.

In 2012 together with The Youth Ballet of Asia he appeared in Krasnoyarsk at the Asian-Pacific Nations’ International Music Festival.

On several occasions he has taken part in the Rudolf Nureyev International Classical Ballet Festival, held in Kazan; in 2013 at the Tatar Academic State Musa Jalil Opera and Ballet Theatre he performed the role of Basilio in Don Quixote while in 2014 he appeared as Solor in La Bayadère. In 2014 at the Buryatia Opera and Ballet Theatre he performed the role of Basilio in Don Quixote (production by Morihiro Iwata).

In 2014 at the III International Ballet Festival in Moscow with the Kremlin Ballet he performed the role of Basilio in Don Quixote (Vladimir Vasiliev’s version). In 2015 At the Bashkiria State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ufa as part of the Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival he performed the role of Albrecht in the ballet Giselle and in Yakutsk at the All-Russian ballet festival The White Crane at the State Sivtsev Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) he performed the role of Solor in La Bayadère.

Since 2013, he has been participating in the gala concert Icons of Russian Ballet at the The Coliseum in London.

In June 2015 he made his debut at American Ballet Theatre as Solor in the ballet La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova’s version). In December 2015 there he performed the same role in Rudolf Nureyev’s Opйra de Paris production. In 2018 he performed the role of Albrecht in the ballet Giselle in Wiener Staatsoper production.

On June 16, 2019, a creative evening of the dancer with the participation of Victoria Tereshkina, Ekaterina Kondaurova and the prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet Marianela Nunez took place on the new stage of the Mariinsky Theater.

On July 18, 2021, the Mariinsky Theater hosted a Kimin’s evening, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of his creative activity. Together with Kimin, his regular partners Olesya Novikova, Victoria Tereshkina, Maria Khoreva and Ekaterina Osmolkina participated in the evening.

REPERTOIRE INCLUDES*:

Giselle (Count Albrecht, Classical Duet) – choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa;
La Bayadère (Solor, Golden Idol) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani (Dance of the Golden Idol choreographed by Nikolai Zubkovsky);
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Desire) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried, the Prince’s Friends) – choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Don Quixote (Basilio) – choreography by Alexander Gorsky;
the Diane and Actéon Pas de Deux from the ballet La Esmeralda (Actйon) – choreography by Agrippina Vaganova;
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Mercutio) – choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
Shurale (Ali-Batyr) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
George Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Rubies), Symphony in C (III. Allegro vivace), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pas de deux from Act II) and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux;
The Nutcracker (Nutcracker Prince) – choreography by Vasily Vainonen;
Le Corsaire (Ali) – production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography of Marius Petipa;
Michel Fokine’s ballets Le Spectre de la rose (Ghost of the Rose) and Schéhérazade (the Slave);
Études – choreography by Harald Lander;
Le Jeune homme et la mort – choreography by Roland Petit;
Sylvia (Aminta) – choreography by Frederick Ashton;
The Legend of Love (Ferkhad) – choreography by Yuri Grigorovich;
Push Comes to Shove – choreography by Twyla Tharp;
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude – choreography by William Forsythe;
Le Parc (Soloist) – choreography by Angelin Preljocaj;
Concerto DSCH, Cinderella (Prince), Pierrot Lunaire – choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
Infra – choreography by Wayne McGregor;
Paquita (Andres) – choreography by Yuri Smekalov, reconstruction and staging of Marius Petipa’s choreography (Act III Grand Pas) by Yuri Burlaka;
Push Comes to Shove – choreography by Twyla Tharp.