Zdenek konvalina biography of michael

Zdenek Konvalina (born 1979) 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 1979 in Brno, Czech Republic. He married ballerina Ksenia Ovsyanick in 2014.^[1]

Career

After graduating from Brno Conservatory (Bachelor's degree: Fine Arts) in 1997 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 2001, he joined the Houston Ballet where he danced until 2006.^[2] After dancing for five years as a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, in 2011, 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 Co