ALESSANDRO
CAGGEGI
CHOREOGRAPHER
UP
COM
ING
30-31.01.2026
DIAGHILEV
Nizhny Novgorod
18-20.02.2026
SPEED-DATING
Ural Opera & Ballet
He became one of the first foreign students in the academy's illustrious 240 year history to be accepted straight onto the full 3-year diploma course. Upon Graduation in 2015, Alessandro joined the State Theatre of Tatarstan (Kazan, Russia), where after his first season was promoted to soloist, and later to leading soloist.
In 2023, Alessandro left the company to join one of Russia’s leading ballet companies - Ural Opera and Ballet (Yekaterinburg) as Principal Dancer.
Alessandro debuted as a choreographer whilst still a graduate student of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with his piece "Symphony for Two". Since then, he has created works for theatres all over Russia, most notably the Bolshoi Ballet, including the 2025 production "Diaghilev", which
broke both box office and press-release records on the Bolshoi's New Stage.
He has received awards and critical acclaim for his creations, and in 2017 was invited to take part in the Bolshoi Theatre’s young choreographers programme “FACES”. From 2016 through to 2022, Alessandro was a resident choreographer at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, creating near to 20 works for the students.
BIO
GRA
PHY
Born in Manchester, Alessandro began his studies in the UK.
In 2012, Alessandro was accepted into the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (aka Bolshoi Ballet Academy), studying under Andrei Smirnov.
REP
ERT
OIRE
Repertoire includes principal and soloist roles in the ballets Don Quixote, Giselle, Paquita, Shurale, Romeo and Juliet, The Golden Horde, Le Corsaire, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Esmeralda, La Sylphide, La Fille Mal Gardee, The Snow Queen,
Napoli, Tales of Perrot and excerpts from the ballets “Flames of Paris”, “Harlequinade”, “Flower Festival in Genzano”, “Laurencia” and many more.
Alessandro's Repertoire also includes lead roles in contemporary works by Nacho Duato, Davide Bombana, Maxim Petrov, Slava Samodurov and Anton Pimonov, amongst others.
- Prize winner and Diploma, Moscow International Ballet Competition 2022
- Second Place and Silver Medal, Yuri Grigorovich International Ballet Competition (Sochi 2019 & 2021)
AWA
RDS
- Prize winner and Diploma, Korean International Ballet Competition 2016
- Prize for best choreography, Yuri Grigorovich International Ballet Competition (Sochi 2019 & 2021)
- Prize for best choreography, Russian National Ballet Competition (Moscow, 2019)
- Nomination for "Best Role in a Musical Production" for the role of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Tantana 2018)
In addition, Alessandro holds his diploma as a concert pianist from the Royal Victoria College of Music.
“The English-Italian choreographer is a worthy heir to George Balanchine and Alexei Ratmansky, building the sequence and action of the performance into an exciting intellectual dialogue of music and dance.”
Anastasia Popova (“Business Online”)
“Caggegi’s beautifully neoclassical and romantic suite is staged according to all the rules of an abstract ballet. Clear dance dramaturgy served as the basis for a structure of successive duets, trios, solos and corps scenes.”
Olga Ugarova (online magazine “Ballet”)
"... I would advise both Moscow and St.Petersburg audiences, and everyone who is able to get to the beautiful Volga city: go to the Pushkin Theatre to see Alessandro Caggegi’s “The Golden Key". Neither you nor the younger audience will regret it."
Sergei Biryukov (Russian Dance Critic)
PRESS
CREATIONS
include...
“DIAGHILEV”
Full length two-act ballet (Bolshoi Theatre)
“PINOCCHIO AND THE GOLDEN KEY”
Full length two-act ballet (State Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod)
“RACHMANINOV SUITE”
one-act ballet (State Theatre of Tatarstan)
“INK”
one-act ballet, part of the “Terezin-Quartet” programme (State Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod)
“MASQUERADE”
one-act ballet (in collaboration with Bolshoi Theatre and world famous pianist Denis Matsuev)
“A SMALL TALE OF A BIG CITY”
one-act ballet (State Theatre of Tatarstan)
“Gershwin Pas de Deux”
for soloists Anastasia Smirnova and Makar Mikhalkin
“MASQUERADE”
one-act ballet (in collaboration with Bolshoi Theatre and world famous pianist Denis Matsuev)
“MOMENT”
for principal dancer Mikhail Lobukhin
“TANGO”
for principal dancer Igor Tsvirko and leading soloist Kristina Kretova
“THE MAN I LOVE”
for principal dancer Denis Rodkin
“JESTER”
for soloist Ivan Sorokhin
First Prize and winner of Best Choreography at the Russian National Ballet Competition
“REPENTANCE”
Mikhailovsky Theatre, dancer by Bolshoi Principal Denis Savin and leading soloist Kristina Kretova
BOLSHOI
BALLET
other works for the
OVER30
CONCERT PIECES
plus
for Bolshoi Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre, State Theatre of Tatarstan, Ural Opera and Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Krasnoyarsk State Choreographic School,
“Dance Open” Festival,
“Stage Platforma” Contemporary Dance Festival, Nureyev International Ballet Festival and many more.
RECOGNITION
- Two-time prize winner for best choreography, Yuri Grigorovich International Ballet Competition (Sochi 2019 & 2021)
- Prize for best choreography, Russian National Ballet Competition (Moscow 2019)
