Anastasia Nikitina

• Prize-winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Ballet Competition (St Petersburg, 2006).

Born in St Petersburg.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2008.
Joined the Mariinsky Theatre the same year.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Sylphs); choreography by August Bournonville,
La Bayadère (Trio of Shadows); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Le Corsaire (Trio of Odalisques),
The Sleeping Beauty (Breadcrumb Fairy, Generosity Fairy, Diamond Fairy, Silver Fairy); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Swan Lake (Cygnets); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Don Quixote (Flower-sellers, Variation in Act IV); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
The Legend of Love (Shyrin’s friends); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich,
Pas de quatre (Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi); choreography by Anton Dolin,
Carmen suite (Woman Tobacco-Worker); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Polyhymnia), Theme and Variations and La Valse,
The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker’s Sisters); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurse); choreography by Alexei Ratmansky,
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; choreography by William Forsythe
and Without – choreography by Benjamin Millepied.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain.