Artistic Director of the Czech National Ballet
Filip Barankiewicz was born in Warsaw, where he enrolled in the Romana Turczynowicz School of Dance in 1986. In 1991, he received the Vaslav Nijinsky Medal and in 1995 won the National Ballet Competition in Poland. The first dancer to receive a scholarship from the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, he studied at the Académie de Danse Classique in Monte Carlo until 1996. A superb dancer, he is now a renowned ballet master. He has staged John Cranko’s choreography in numerous companies. In 2025, he received the prestigious Pearl of Dance, Poland’s highest award given to dance artists for their lifetime contribution to ballet, and also served on the judging panel of the Polish National Ballet’s Young Dancer of the Year competition. Since the 2017/2018 season, he has been Artistic Director of the Czech National Ballet.
