Gigel Ungureanu

Gigel Ungureanu graduated from the choreography high school in Cluj-Napoca in 1995, having taken first prize at the Romanian national ballet competition in 1994, and won a silver medal at the Oleg Danovski international ballet competition in 1997. He was a principal dancer at the Oleg Danovski Ballet Theatre in Constanta from 1997 to 2006 and then joined the ballet of the National Opera in Bucharest as a principal, dancing Siegfried and Albrecht and leading roles in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Don Quixote; in May 2016 he was appointed the company's ballet director. As a principal of Sofia Ballet he danced in Swan Lake at The Theatre at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai on 6, 8 and 9 June 2012, in casts that also held Bianca Fota, Adrian Mihaiu, Igor Velanoski, Galina Hristova and Vesela Vasileva.