Emil Yordanov

Born in Varna, Emil Yordanov trained at the National School of Dance Arts under Petar Koldamov, graduating in 2006, and took a degree in ballet pedagogy at the National Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts. He was awarded the A. Petrov prize at the eleventh national meeting of young ballet dancers in Sofia in 2004, joined the Sofia National Opera and Ballet in 2006, became a soloist in 2008 and a premier dancer in 2011, dancing Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Prince in The Nutcracker, Albrecht in Giselle and Basilio in Don Quixote, for which he received the Crystal Lyre in 2014; he has toured Canada, Japan, the United States and several European countries. As a principal of Sofia Ballet he danced in Swan Lake at The Theatre at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai on 7 and 8 June 2012, alongside Vesa Tonova, Adrian Mihaiu, Igor Velanoski, Galina Hristova and Vesela Vasileva.