Zdenek konvalina biography of rory

Zdenek Konvalina (born ) is a multidisciplinary artist who gained international acclaim as a performing artist and in later career developed abstract expressionist painting practice.

Personal life

Konvalina was born in in Brno, Czech Republic. He married ballerina Ksenia Ovsyanick in ^[1]

Career

After graduating from Brno Conservatory (Bachelor's degree: Fine Arts) in Zdenek pursued a career of a ballet dancer becoming an International Guest Principal Artist working with the most prominent choreographers, directors and artists around the world.

In , he joined the Houston Ballet where he danced until ^[2] After dancing for five years as a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, in , he joined the English National Ballet in London as lead principal.^[3]

Konvalina performed with Dutch National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Munich Bayerische Staats Oper, Slovak National Theatre, Ballet Concerto de Puerto Rico, National