Among his teachers may be mentioned Roger Ritz (which began at the age of 10), Serge Peretti, Victor Gsovski, Harald Lander, Fernando Alonso, Asaf Messerer, Ninel Kurgapkina and Gilbert Mayer.
He immediately dance major roles of the repertoire already showing, as Prince Albert of Giselle and Prince Siegfried from Swan Lake in the version of Wladimir Bourmeister after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, Suite en Blanc and the young man Mirage Serge Lifar, the Crystal Palace George Balanchine, and Harald Lander.
He participated in the Paris premiere ballets by George Balanchine (Concerto Barocco) or Maurice Béjart (The Rite of Spring), a role that has most marked his personality.
He played a role as a great Ivan the Terrible (1976) in the eponymous ballet Yuri Grigorovich to, according to Sergei Eisenstein's film.
He also had the privilege of dancing with the dancers of the largest international ballerinas: Alicia Alonso, Eva Evdokimova Galina Samsova, Nina Vyrubova, and Katia Maximova.