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Igor Kolb graduated from the Belarusian State Choreographic College. From 1996 to 2022, he served at the Mariinsky Theatre. 

In 2022, Igor Kolb was appointed principal ballet master of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus. His productions at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus include:

September 2022: Adolphe Adam’s Giselle (choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Igor Kolb). He staged Pas de deux from Act I (previously, choreographers didn’t use this piece of Adam’s music; Vyacheslav Kuznetsov is author of the instrumentation).

December 2023: Illusions of Love to the music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Frédéric Chopin, Leonid Shirin (libretto, choreography and staging by Igor Kolb)

September 2024: choreography and staging in Pathétique Memory Book, project based on the pieces by Belarusian composers and documentary evidence of the tragedy and heroism of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War.

In July 2024, with the company of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, he appeared in a gala concert marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders and the 45th anniversary of the Nicaragua Revolution held at the Rubén Darío National Theatre in Managua, Nicaragua.

His productions with the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus include:

2022 Adolphe Adam’s Giselle (choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Igor Kolb; Peasant pas de deux choreography by Igor Kolb)

2023 Illusions of Love to the music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Frédéric Chopin, Leonid Shirin (libretto, choreography and staging by Igor Kolb); the ballet won the BRAVO International Professional Music Award in the category Classical Performer from a Partner Country

2024 Pathétique Memory Book, project based on the pieces by Belarusian composers and documentary evidence of the tragedy and heroism of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War (choreography); the production won the National Competition for the Best Cultural Project on a Patriotic Theme 2024 in the category Best Production on a Patriotic Theme

Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (choreography)

2025 DANSES Evening of One-Act Ballets: Boléro. Danse macabre. Carmen to the music of Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Georges Bizet (concept, libretto, choreography and staging)

The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (libretto, choreography and staging)