Vadim Pisarev

In 1997, Vadim Pisarev Choreography School was awarded the Sergei Diaghilev Medal.

In 1996 Vadim Pisarev was appointed the Art Director of Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Solovyanenko.

In 1992 Vadim Pisarev, together with his wife, prima ballerina of Donetsk Opera and Ballet, People's Artist of Ukraine Inna Dorofeeva, established the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Choreographic School, also known as Vadim Pisarev Ballet School. It is the first Ukrainian non-governmental educational institution of this kind. Gifted children from Donetsk oblast' and other regions of Ukraine learn ballet skills at Vadim Pisarev' school, there's also a school board for non-resident students, with partial allowance.

At the 1st all-Ukrainian competition of ballet dancers and choreographers in 1984 in Kiev Vadim Pisarev won the first prize and was awarded with a gold medal. In June of the same year he won second prize and silver medal at the International Ballet Contest in Helsinki, Finland, and a bronze medal in November 1984 in Paris, France at the 1st International Ballet Contest. In 1984 Vadim Pisarev was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of the Ukraine.

Vadim Yakovlevich Pisarev was born on February 1, 1965 in Donetsk. In 1983 he graduated from the Kiev State Choreographic School, where his teachers were Irina Bulatova and Vladimir Denisenko. From 1984 to 1985, Pisarev was trained at the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) by such teachers as V. Nikonov, R. Struchkov and A. Messerer. In 1991 he practiced in Mariinsky Theatre (at that time Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre), (Saint Petersburg) and ten years later, graduated from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.