Management

Principal Choreographer and Director of Ballet

Igor Kolb

Honored Artist of Russia (2009)

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:

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

2024 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)

2025 The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (libretto, choreography and staging)