JERLIN NDUDI

Ukraine
JERLIN NDUDI (16)

LE CORSAIRE
choreography: Marius Petipa
music: Adolphe Charles Adam

DIANA AND ACTEON
choreography: Agrippina Vaganova
music: Cesare Pugni

Dancer

JERLIN NDUDI was born on May 19th, 1987 in St-Petersburg, Russia.

He became an orphan at the age of five and since then was fostered by a guardian. In 1998 Jerlin entered the classic dance class of Choreography Mastership College by Vadim Pisarev (Donetsk, Ukraine). He was granted free entrance as an orphan.

Jerlin often takes part in the following performances of the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker (little Negro, Chinese dance), Aida (Arabic boy), The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote (Basil), La Bayadere (Gold idol). At the College’s performances he also dances Gopac (music by Solovyev-Sedoy), Acteon’s variation from the ballet Diana and Acteon, Blessing (music by Hardiman), contemporary piece Right here. Right now, Tango” (Bejart). He is currently preparing to perform Cipollino’s role in the ballet Cipollino (music by K. Hachaturyan). Jerlin gave performances in the United Arab Emirates (2000), Turkey (2001) and Japan (April, 2003).

In February 2002 Jerlin, as a promising dancer of the College, went to the international ballet contest “Youth of the Ballet” in Kiev and became a Golden laureate.

Choreographies

LE CORSAIRE (version Petipa: 1899).

DIANA AND ACTEON (version Vaganova: 1935) is a pas de deux from the second act of Petipa’s version of La Esmeralda (1886). It is one of the new numbers Drigo composed for Petipa’s version (the very first ballet premiered in 1844). Vaganova staged another new La Esmeralda in 1935. Her Diana and Acteon is a virtuoso pas de deux often performed as a gala divertissement.

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