Anton Iakovlev

Joined the Company in 2008

Hometown - St. Petersburg, Russia

Anton trained at the Russian Ballet Academy with Boris Bregvadze from 1992-2000, earning a Bachelor of Arts while at the Academy. He performed with Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Vermont, Vanemuine Ballet (Tartu, Estonia), New York Theatre Ballet and Albany Berkshire Ballet. He has also danced Carmen with Akjun Ballet, and Giselle with the St. Petersburg Ballet. With Oklahoma City Ballet, Anton has enjoyed performing as Cavalier in Robert Mills' The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire pas de deux, Hilarion in Giselle, Ichabod Crane in Alan Hineline's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Raoul from Jacob Sparso's The Phantom of the Opera. Anton is married to fellow company member Darli Iakovleva.