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Meelis Pakri
Meelis Pakri, on staff at the Royal Ballet
Upper School in London, England, is originally from Tallinn, Estonia,
and was with Colorado Ballet from 1991-2006. He is a graduate of the
Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. For five years he
was Principal Dancer with Estonian National Ballet touring Europe, South
and Central America, the Philippines, Singapore and the former Soviet
Union. In 1990, he was a Guest Dancer at the International Ballet Festival
in Havana, Cuba, honoring Alicia Alonso, and a Guest Principal Dancer
for the National Theater of Macedonia in Skopje, Yugoslavia. In addition
to dancing with Estonian National Ballet, Pakri was a partnering and
technique teacher at the Tallinn Ballet School of Estonian National Ballet.
Among his students are present stars of English National Ballet and Royal
Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp, Belgium. |
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| roles, including Albrecht in Giselle,
the title role in George Balanchine’s Apollo, Basilio in Don
Quixote, the principal male in Balanchine’s Rubies,
and Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake. Pakri was also a frequent guest
performer in Estonia and Japan. In 1998, he was invited to perform as a
guest artist with the Martha Graham Dance Company in the role of the Husbandman
in Appalachian Spring at the Library of Congress in Washington,
D.C. In 2001, Pakri retired from the stage. From 2001-2006 Meelis Pakri served as the Ballet Master of Colorado Ballet. He also is a frequent guest teacher at many schools and summer intensive program throughout the United States. In the fall of 2004, Pakri returned to the stage to dance the role of Count Dracula in Michael Pink’s Dracula for the Colorado Ballet. In 2005, Pakri received critical acclaim for staging the full length The Sleeping Beauty for Colorado Ballet. |
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| © 2001-2010 Andrea Paris, Los Angeles Ballet Academy, Theatrics Dance Academy. |