Igor Velanoski

Igor Velanoski is a dancer with the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, where he has appeared in the company's classical and gala programmes, among them the Ballet Pearls gala of 15 May 2018. He danced in all five performances of Swan Lake that Sofia Ballet gave at The Theatre at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai between 6 and 9 June 2012, in casts led by Bianca Fota and Vesa Tonova and also holding Gigel Ungureanu, Emil Yordanov, Adrian Mihaiu, Galina Hristova and Vesela Vasileva. He began ballet training at eleven and finished his schooling at the Ilija Nikolovski-Luj school in the class of Elisaveta Kushovska; after his secondary ballet education he entered the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje and became a soloist of the national theatre soon afterwards. His roles there include Peter Pan, Rothbart and the pas de trois in Swan Lake, the King in Esmeralda, the Prince in The Nutcracker, the Prince in Snow White, Espada in Don Quixote and Hilarion in Giselle, and he has guested in South Korea, Italy, France, New York and Austria. He completed ballet pedagogy at the Faculty of Music Art in 2014, and he has worked with the Bullfrogs Ballet School since 2010, first in the ballet Amethyst and later in Swan Lake and A Midsummer Night's Dream, teaching classical ballet and leading the school's ballet foundation for boys.