Daria Vasnetsova

• Recipient of the Golden Sofit prize for best female role in ballet as the Meek One in The Meek One, choreography by Donvena Pandoursky (2007).

Born in Leningrad.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2005 (class of Tatiana Udalenkova). Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2005.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Sylphs) – choreography by August Bournonville;
Giselle (Myrtha, Zulma, Monnah);
Le Corsaire (Medora, Trio of Odalisques);
La Bayadère (Grand pas, Trio of Shadows) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani;
The Sleeping Beauty (Candide Fairy, Fleur de Farine Fairy, Violante Fairy) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revival of the 1890 production;
The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine, Lilac Fairy) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile, Cygnets, Big Swans, Two Swans, Brides for the Prince) – choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Raymonda (Clemance, Henrietta, Grand Pas, Variation in the Dream scene) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads, Street dancer, Flower Girl);
Chopiniana (Nocturne, Mazurka, Prelude, Seventh waltz) – choreography by Michel Fokine;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria, Polish Noblewomen) – choreography by Rostislav Zakharov;
Spartacus (Phrygia) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
The Legend of Love (Dancers); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich,
George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, The Four Temperaments, Symphony in C (Fourth Movement), La Valse and Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds);
The Nutcracker (Nutcracker’s Sister, Waltz of the Flowers) – staging by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare, Princess of the Sea), Cinderella (Dance Teacher) – choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
Ondine (Four Naiads) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
The Golden Age (Valkyrie) – choreography by Noah D. Gelber;
The Meek One (the Meek One) – choreography by Donvena Pandoursky;
Aria Suspended – choreography by Peter Quanz;
and Presentiment of Spring (Winter) – choreography by Yuri Smekalov.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to the USA, Japan, China, Korea and Europe.