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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Principal Dancers
 Stanko Milov is from Sofia, Bulgaria. He began his training at age eleven at the State Choreographic School in Sofia, where he graduated with honors. Before coming to the United States, he danced with the National Theatre for Opera and Ballet in Bulgaria and won numerous awards at international ballet competitions, including Bulgaria's National Ballet Competition. He was a principal dancer with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, where he was the recipient of a 1997 Princess Grace Foundation Dance Fellowship Award. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a Principal dancer in 1999.
Mr. Milov has performed leading roles in George Balanchine's Apollo, Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, Diamonds, La Sonnambula, La Valse, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Serenade, Symphony in C, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, Stars and Stripes, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Western Symphony; Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow and The Sleeping Beauty; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries; Vicente Nebrada's Lento a Tempo e Appassionato; Kirk Peterson's Amazed in Burning Dreams; Marius Petipa's Le Corsaire Pas de Trois, Don Quixote, and Paquita; Jerome Robbins' In the Night; Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Cinderella, Delicate Balance, Hail to the Conquering Hero, Nutcracker, Pas de Deux Campagnolo, Silver Lining, Swan Lake, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; Lynne-Taylor Corbett's The Ballad of You and Me, Mercury, and The Quilt; Glen Tetley's The Rite of Spring and Voluntaries; Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs; Hans van Manen's Five Tangos; and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia.
He originated roles in Donald Byrd's Seven Deadly Sins and Nicolo Fonte's Almost Tango, as well as the role of Escamillo in Kent Stowell's Carmen.
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Stanko Milov in George Balanchine's Apollo. (Photo: Rex Tranter) |
At Pittburgh Ballet Theatre, under the directorship of Patricia Wilde, Mr. Milov performed leading roles in Ib Anderson's Thyra and 12 Men; Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Jewels, The Nutcracker, and Scotch Symphony; Jyri Kylian's Return to the Strange Land; and Bruce Wells' Romeo and Juliet, among others.
Mr. Milov has performed as a guest artist in Japan and also in Vancouver, British Columbia, as part of Columbia Artists' Ballet Stars of the USA. In 2005, Mr. Milov performed with Peter Boal and Company.
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Milov is active as a choreographer, composer, and teacher. He has choreographed two pieces set to his own musical compositions: one for Pacific Northwest Ballet School in 2003 and the other for PNB's Choreographers' Showcase in 2004. He was a member of the faculty of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and now teaches at Pacific Northwest Ballet School.
For more information about Stanko Milov, please visit his website at www.stankomilov.com
Headshot Photography: Angela Sterling
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