Igor Ptashenchuk was born in 1997 in Ukraine and moved to Israel in 2020. He graduated from the dance department at Reut High School in Jerusalem and received the America-Israel Foundation scholarship in the years 2012 to 2015. He also received scholarships for summer courses at The Juilliard School and The American Ballet Academy in New York. He participated in the excellence project of the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in the years 2011 and 2012. In 2015 he won the Jeannette Ordman scholarship as well as the Mia Arbatova classical ballet competition. In 2015 and 2016 he danced in many projects such as “Man of the Hour” by Itzik Galili, “Grounded” by Alon Shtoyer, “Carmen” by Eli Lazar and “Billy Elliot” by Eldar Groisman. Ptashenchuk joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2016 and the Batsheva Dance Company in 2019.
As of: December 2024