After studying at the Victor Ullate Ballet School in Madrid, Igor Yebra eventually joined Ullate’s company, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid while still a student, and continued with the company until 1996.
He has won various competitions and prizes including the Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Dancers in Paris in 1991; the 2nd International Maya Plisetskaya Ballet Competition in 1996; the Best Dancer of the Year Award from Italy’s Danza & Danza Magazine also in 1996; and the Leonide Massine Prize in 2003. In 2009 he was appointed as a member of UNESCO’s International Dance Council; and was named one of the Ilustre de Bilbao for 2010.
Igor Yebra’s repertoire includes the principal roles in Hans van Manen’s works Hameklavier, Five Tangos, In and Out, Grosse Fuga; Rudi van Dantzig’s Four Last Songs; Nils Christe’s Before Nightfall, Cuarteto; Jan Linkens’ Haydn Symphony; Alberto Alonso’s Carmen Suite; Alberto Méndez’s Muñecos; William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated; Jiří Kylián’s Petite Morte; Mauricio Wainrot’s Carmina Burana and Chopin Numero Uno.
He has danced in many different versions of Giselle, Don Quixote, La Bayadère, Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. He has also danced in Chopiniana , The Firebird and Le Spectre de La Rose by Michel Fokine; Icaro and Suite en blanc by Serge Lifar; El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) by Léonide Massine; Adagietto by Oscar Araiz; Zorba by Lorca Massine; Ivan the Terrible and Romeo and Juliet by Yury Grigorovich; Theme and Variations, Allegro Brillante, Sonatina, Concerto Baroco, Who Cares?, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Four Temperaments, Apollo and Violin Concerto by George Balanchine; Charles Jude’s versions of Raymonda and Paquita; La rose malade, La prisonnière, Le Lac des Cygnes et Ses Maléfices by Roland Petit; and Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow.… continue reading
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