Julian MacKay age 17 makes history dancing full length Swan Lake and the lead role as Siegfried while still a student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
MacKay danced the principle roll on tour with the Russian State Ballet on tour in Germany and Switzerland in December 2014 thu January 2015. His partner was Russian ballerina Juliya Zvyagina. One of the highlights of the tour was dancing on New Year Eve at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin with famed violinist David Garrett.
MacKay was the first American to graduate from the full Bolshoi program, he attended both the upper and lower academies,and in June 2015 graduated top of his class with all 5s. All of MacKay's academics where completed in Russian. He is now a full time student at GITIS the prestigious theater and ballet college studying for a Masters degree. As a Prix de Lausanne prize winner he is currently working at the Royal Ballet in London.
