Alexandre Riabko completed his dance education at the Kyiv Ballet School and at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. He joined the Hamburg Ballet in 1996. In 1999 he was promoted to Soloist and in 2001 he was promoted to Principal.
Together with John Neumeier, he created Harlequin and The Spirit of the Rose in Nijinsky, Sascha in Préludes CV, Aschenbach’s Concepts in Death in Venice, Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Pavillon d’Armide, creator spiritus in Purgatorio and a solo in Ghost Light. Saburo Teshigawara has also created numerous roles for him since 2021. He has danced a broad repertory and embodied important roles in ballets by John Neumeier as well as other choreographers, including George Balanchine, Mats Ek, Marco Goecke, Demis Volpi, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Christopher Wheeldon and Nacho Duato. He is in demand as a guest soloist and regularly dances at international galas.
Alexandre Riabko staged Neumeier’s ballets Vaslav in Paris and Toulouse and Pavillon d’Armide in Vienna. Together with Silvia Azzoni, he co-produced the evening Echoes of Life.
He was a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne and received the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize and the Les étoiles de ballet2000 dance prize as well as the Premio Roma Danza in 2014 and the Benois de la Danse for excellence in partnering in 2016.
