Anastasia Petushkova

• Diploma-recipient at the International Vaganova-Prix Competition (St Petersburg, 2006).

Born in Leningrad.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2006 (class of Olga Baltacheyeva and Lyudmila Kovaleva).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year.

Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
La Sylphide (Effie, Sylphs); choreography by Auguste Bournonville,
Giselle (Myrtha, Monna, Zulma),
La Bayadère (Gamzatti, Grand pas, Indian Dance, Trio of Shades); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani,
The Sleeping Beauty (Diamond Fairy); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Le Réveil de Flore (Hébé); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revival of the 1894 production,
Swan Lake (Swans, Spanish Dance, Hungarian Dance, Mazurka); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Raymonda (Panaderos); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Don Quixote (Mersedes, Flower-Sellers, Variation); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
Michel Fokine’s ballets The Firebird (the Firebird) and Schéhérazade (Odalisques),
Le Sacre du printemps (the Chosen Maiden); choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky,
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Noblewomen, Ghirei’s Second Wife); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov,
Spartacus (the Gaditanae Virgins); choreography by Leonid Yakobson,
Romeo and Juliet (Courtesans); choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky,
The Legend of Love (Dance of the Court Dancers); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich,
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Latona), The Four Temperaments, Symphony in C (Fourth Movement) and La Valse,
The Nutcracker (the Nutcracker’s Sisters, Queen of the Snowflakes); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Female Dance) and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare, Sea Princess, Gypsy Dance),
William Forsythe’s ballets Approximate Sonata and In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated,
The Ring; choreography by Alexei Miroshnichenko
and dances in the operas Les Troyens and Ruslan and Lyudmila (Dances of Naina’s Charms, Soloist).

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Azerbaijan, Germany (Baden-Baden) and Finland.