Biography
Nikita Orlov is a young dancer, the finalist of the 2nd season of the show "Dances", the participant of the "Battle of Seasons", a medalist of many international competitions and festivals on modern choreography. The dancer became famous for his versatility, as many dance styles are subject to Hip-Hop, Vogue, Contemporary and others. Today, he continues choreographic experiments, and also conducts teaching activities by developing special courses for colleagues.Childhood and youth
Nikita Orlov was born in the Crimea, in the capital of this region - Simferopol. The boy is probably congenital for creativity, since his mother worked as a choreographer in a local studio. Nikita has a younger sister.
For the first time in the dance hall, the little Nikita came when he was 9 years old. At first he was engaged in folk dances in the children's team of Simferopol, and at the age of 15 he discovered Hip Hop for himself. The guy was carried away by this style and after six months he became a member of the street dance competitions, which were held in Evpatoria.
In the summer of 2012, a novice dancer visits the choreographic festival "O! Range summer", where he participates in a large number of master classes conducted by professional choreographers, including those famous in Ukraine teachers - Anton Ovchinnikov, Alina Nobyuva and Vyacheslav Bonchkom. Having arrived in many types of dances, Nikita gradually becomes a universal dancer.
In the fall of 2012, the young man moves to Kiev to improve the skill in choreography. At first he is engaged in the KDT Studio dance school, which belongs to the winner of one of the seasons of the Ukrainian television show "Dance all" by Vasily Kozary. A year later, it is filmed in several music video clips, for example, in the clip of the artist Korr-a on the Fiyacraka song, and also takes part in the Quest Pistols group show.
Choreography
In December 2013, Orlov becomes a member of the popular Kiev dance group "Apache Crew", which created and heads the finalist of the show "Dance all" Anatoly Sovilo. Nikita has achieved first professional success with this troupe.In March 2014, together with the team, he wins the prestigious dance competition "The Best Team of the Country", later opens with his performance by the Dance Film Festival Film Festival, and also removed in the singer Dmitry Monatik's video clips on the song "In the best light" and Katya's singers on the song "New File "
In December 2014, the Apache Crew team presented his first large-scale show "Megapolis", with whom he drives tour throughout the country. For this production, the troupe received the "Opening of the Year 2014" award, which was presented by one of the most prestigious dance organizations of Ukraine Myway Dance Awards.
The team continued to take part in choreographic festivals. They won the main prize in the spring of 2015 at the Challenge contest, and also occupied the 2nd place at the "Best Team of the country" festival. At the same time, Nikita Orlov independently appeared on the competition festival of experimental dances Open Your Mind, Vol.3, which was held in St. Petersburg in April 2015.
The dancer managed to get into the top 8, overcoming a large number of tours and stages. Orlov also took part in the HIP-HOP International festival in the United States, danced at the presentation of the Matrix world Hair-brand in the Swiss city of Zurich, starred in Pepsi advertising together with the Shakhtar's Donetsk football club goalkeeper and the Ukrainian team Andrei Pyatov.
Project "Dancing on TNT"
In the spring of 2015, the eagles were casting, which conducted a TNT TV channel on the eve of the 2nd season of the show "Dance". The dancer overcame both the preliminary stage and the final casting, in which about 2 thousand people took part. As a result, the young man got into the top 24 shows. The project has become a turning point in the creative biography of the dancer.
His personally singled out the choreographer of the project Sergey Shestperov, who is known to the public under the pseudonym Miguel. A tall thin dancer (Nikita's growth - 196 cm) conquered the mentor with his "awkwardness". It is not surprising that the eagles got into the team of Miguel. The main goal in the project "Dances on TNT" Artist saw self-realization and the growth of dance skill. In an interview, he stated that in case of victory, the prize will spend the prize to implement creative ideas that the dancer himself believes will help people develop.
The dancer confidently approached the target target, making the competition to other participants of his team, which included Ulyana Prewev, Elena Golovan, Elena Platonova, Mikhail Shabanov, Vladislav Kim. Bright performances of the dancer were the rooms with Nastya Sidro, Vanya Mozhaikin and Max Nesterovich.
In the final Nikita entered the fourth of leaders and received a chance to fight for the main prize of the competition - 3 million rubles. But as a result of the voting of Orlov, he took 2nd place, giving the championship of the colleague Max Nesterovich. The 3rd and 4th places went to Vane Mozhaikin and Yulia Nikolaeva, the wards of the team of Egory Druzhinin.
After the end of the Teleow season is completed on the eve of 2016, a team was collected from the best dancers for a large tour of the country. Its participants, including Orlov, demonstrated the best rooms from the competitive program at concerts. In March, Nikita became the participant of the "Battle of Seasons". The artist did not hit the face and managed to show his skill at the highest level.
TV viewers were especially impressed by the Orlov number in a pair with Nastya Mikhailets, who was called "Dancing Friki". The dancer fell into the top 5 best on the project. The 1st place was taken by Anton PanUfnik from the team of Miguel, he was the ward of Druzhinin - Juliana Butzz. The prizes were divided among themselves Max Nesterovich and Mitya Stahev.
In the fall of 2017, Nikita Orlov took part in the immimissal show "Faceless", whose choreographer was Miguel. Many stars of the show "Dance", including Bain Basanova, Anastasia Vyadro, Dana and Stas Ponomarev were occupied in the performance. The formulation of the layer of the play of Henric Ibsen "Ghosts", the music wrote Anton Belyaev, the finalist "Voice".
Personal life
In relation to the personal life of Nikita Orlov, it behaves extremely restrained, as it is completely concentrated on its dance career and on numerous creative hobbies. The dancer does not advertise his plans for his wife and children, preferring to remain in the status of a bachelor, fully immersed in creativity.The main hobbies of the guy remained a photo and video shooting, which he pays free time. And as the photographer he sufficiently succeeded. Orlov regularly photographs professional models and exposes its work at the contests of the artistic photo. Often the work of the artist also fall on his page in "Instagram".
As an amateur director, he spoke in a number of videos, such as "Bounds", "Desperate", "Drop The Game", "Ordinary Things" and others. The most famous work is considered the video clip "Stroke". In the fall of 2015, the eagles are nominated for the Udance National Awards Award in the "Best Dancer" category.
Nikita Orlov Now
Nikita continues to lead an active creative life associated with dance art. Together with Alexander Tronov in September 2018, he prepared a performance Dress // Undress, which artists submitted to the presentation of the collaboration of two brands ADER X Puma.
At the beginning of 2019, the dancer visited concerts and master classes in Northern Venice, then moved to Moscow. Now the eagles "runs up" a 3-week course for professional dancers, which includes theoretical and practical classes.