Ivan Urban

BORN
1975 in Gomel. White Russian

EDUCATION
Minsk Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet

MAIN TEACHERS
Alexander Ivanovich Kaladenko, Anatoli Nisnevich, Kevin Haigen

ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 1994, Soloist in 1997, Principal in 1998, Ballet Master since 2020

CREATIONS
Telemachos in "Odyssey"
King Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet" ('97 version)
Sir Andrew in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Eros in "Bernstein Dances"
Serge Diaghilev in "Nijinsky"
Carsten in "Préludes CV"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
The Doctor and Serge Diaghilev in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin in "Anna Karenina"

and solos in

Time after Time from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Osterkonzert 2004, Munich)
Du und Du-Waltzer (New Year's Concert 2006, Vienna)
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Verklungene Feste
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)

REPERTORY
Daphnis in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Armand, Des Grieux, Monsieur Duval and Comte N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
The young boy in "In The Between"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Blue Bird in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Drosselmeier and Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo, Tybalt, Lord Capulet and Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Hamlet in "Hamlet" and Polonius in "Hamlet 21"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
Malvolio in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
The main role in "Bernstein Dances"
The King, Prince Leopold and Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Albert in "Giselle"
Peer, Solveig's Father and The Producer in "Peer Gynt"
Merlin in "The Saga of King Arthur""
Don Juan in "Don Juan"
Gustav von Aschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Odysseus in "Odyssey"
The Poet in "The Little Mermaid"
Her Husband in "Christmas Oratorio"
Jago in "Othello"
The Angel in "The Legend of Joseph"
Liliom and Gate Keeper in "Liliom"
Piotr Nikolayevich Sorin in "The Seagull"
The High Brahmin in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
The Young Boy in "Light Beings" (Mats Ek)
The Prince in The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
Madge, a Witch in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Man in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Husband in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Don Quixote in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

and solos in

Saint Matthew Passion
Petrushka-Variations
Fratres
Requiem
Spring and Fall
Bernstein-Serenade
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony (Gustav Mahler)
hello
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Bach Suite 2
Le Sacre
Magnificat
Opus 100 – for Maurice
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Afternoon of a Faun
Remanso (Nacho Duato)
Le Pavillon d'Armide (Michail Fokine)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Jewels – Diamonds (George Balanchine)

GUESTING
Berlin, Dusseldorf, Essen, Munich (Easter Concert 2000 and 2002), Moscow, Bordeaux, Toronto, Beijing, Vienna (New Year's Concert 2006), St.Barth's Music Festival, World Ballet Festival 2006 in Japan, Roberto Bolle and Friends-Galas in Italy, at the Charity Gala "Event Prominent" 2007 and 2010 in Hamburg and 2011 at a Tribute to Natalia Makarova in Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
He danced the role of Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull" with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto and with the ballet of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow.

HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Instant"
Music: Samuel Barber
Premiere: Bolshoi Theatre on November 22, 2006
Cast: Bolshoi principal dancers' Marianna Ryzhkina and Yan Godovsky

AWARDS
In 1992 he was half finalist of the "Prix de Lausanne" and received a scholarship from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation to complete his education at The Hamburg Ballet School.
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1996