Position: Professor
Academic title: Professor
Honorary title: People’s Artist of Belarus
Education: 1967 – Belarusian State Choreographic School; 1982 – Minsk Institute of Culture (specialty “cultural and educational work”)
Courses taught: Acting skills, Mass scenes from ballets (corps de ballet), Script drama, Methods of teaching duet dance
Creative portrait:
He was born on 02.06.1947 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia. In 1967 he was accepted into the Belarusian Opera and Ballet Theater, and in 1969 he became a Laureate of the 1st International Ballet Competition in Moscow. While working at the State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater, he performed the main roles in productions: “Don Quixote” by L. Minkus, “Spartak” by A. Khachaturyan, “Bakhchisarai Fountain” by B. Afanasyev, “Gayane” by A. Khachaturyan, “Harlequinade” by R. Drigo, “Alpine Ballad” by E. Glebov, “Carmen Suite” by J. Bizet-R. Shchedrin, “Till Eulenspiegel” by S. Cortes, “The Creation of the World” by A. Petrov, “After the Ball” by G. Wagner, “Sleeping Beauty” by P. Tchaikovsky, “Cinderella” by S. Prokofiev, “The Young Lady and the Hooligan” by D. Shostakovich, “The Tales of Hoffmann” by J. Offenbach” “Der Rosenkavalier” by R. Strauss and others.
In 1989, he completed his career as a dancer and began to participate as a director and choreographer in staging ballet performances in the republic and abroad. In the period 1989-1992 he taught at the National Academy of Arts of Syria (Damascus).
Since 1993, he has been teaching at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, and since 2011 at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. He is the author of a 3-volume textbook “Stage Dance”.
In December 2020, V. Sarkisyan was awarded the Order of Francis Skaryna for many years of fruitful work.
