Anton Pimonov

In 1999 he graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Yuri Umrikhin) and joined the Mariinsky Theatre. He performed solo parts in Soviet editions of the ballets Petipa and Gorsky, Balanchine ballets (Prodigal Son, Symphony in C Major, Rubies, Theme With Variations, Four Temperaments, Piano Concerto No. 2) and Foresight (Where the Golden Cherries Hang, Approximate Sonata, Steptext). The performer of the Russian premieres of ballets by Nijinskaya, Macmillan, Neumeier, Preljocaj. The first performer in the productions of Lakott, Ratmansky, Simonov, Miroshnichenko. Participant of the projects Diana Vishneva: Beauty In Motion" and Diana Vishneva: Dialogues.

He made his debut as a choreographer in 2012 at the Mariinsky, six works were included in the repertoire of the theater. He has performed at the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theater (St. Petersburg), Ballet Moscow, Perm Choreographic College, the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the Bavarian Ballet (Munich).

In 2020-2023, he directed the ballet troupe of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. Productions: Naughty Songs to the music of Poulenc, Concert No. 5 to the music of Prokofiev, A Guide To Ballet by Khrushchev and Tchaikovsky, The Arctic by Svetlichny. Together with Elena Pankova, he resumed Glazunov's Raymonda (choreography by Marius Petipa edited by Konstantin Sergeev).

In 2017-2020 and from May 2024 — Deputy Artistic Director and choreographer-resident of the Ural Ballet. Here he staged the ballets Love Songs (in the new edition goes under the name Brahms Party) and Hungarian Dances to the music of Brahms, The Hunchback Horse by Korolev (together with Vyacheslav Samodurov), Graphite by Gorlinsky (a joint production of the Ural Opera and the House of Culture GES-2, Moscow).