Alexey
Putintsev

Benois de la Danse nominee

Born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (teacher Andrey Smirnov) in 2015 and was accepted into the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia where his tutor was Andrey Bolotin.

Won the Third Prize of the International Yuri Grigorovich Competition Young Ballet of the World in Sochi in 2014, the First Prize of the Krasnoyarsk International Ballet Competition Grand Prix of Siberia, the First Prize of the All-Russian Competition of Ballet dancers and choreographers in the nomination Characteristic and folk stage dance in Moscow, the Grand Prix of the All-Russian Competition of Young performers Russian Ballet in Moscow in 2015, and the Second Prize of the International Choreographic Festival-competition Tanzolymp in Berlin.

Repertoire includes: The Blue Bird (The Sleeping Beauty), Basil (Don Quixote), The Nutcracker Prince, the Devil, Chinese and Spanish dolls (The Nutcracker), the Golden Idol (La Bayadère), the Fool (Swan Lake), Florizel (Winter's Tale), Bell ringers (Ivan the Terrible), Boris's friends and a Newspaperman (The Golden Age), a Buffoon (The Legend of Love), John Bull – Passion, The Black Slave (Pharaoh's Daughter), Treplev (The Seagull), Philip (The Flame of Paris), Spartacus (Spartacus), roles in Rubies (Jewels) and Artifact Suite, pas de deux Diana and Actaeon, etc.

Participated in the tours with Moscow State Academy of Choreography in Milan, Athens and Thessaloniki.