Igor Dobrovolskiy

Who is Igor Dobrovolskiy?

Igor Dobrovolskiy graduated from the Kiev State Ballet Academy with a BFA in ballet pedagogy and choreography from the Kiev National University of the Arts. His professional dance career began with the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth in Kiev, Ukraine. He has travelled across Europe and also worked in Ecuador.

In 2002, he and Susan Chalmers-Gauvin founded Ballet-théâtre atlantique du Canada/ The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, which is located in Moncton, New Brunswick. Here, Dobrovolskiy has choreographed and directed a diverse collection of original full-length narrative ballets along with short works which have explored contemporary themes within classical genre.