Anastasia Matvienko

Anastasia Matvienko
  

• Prize-winner at the IV International Serge Lifar Competition (Kiev, 2002, silver medal).
Best Duet prize and Press Jury first prize at the International Ballet Competition in Varna (2004).
• Prize-winner at the X International Ballet and Choreography Competition (Moscow, 2005, gold medal).

Born in Sevastopol (Ukraine).
Graduated from the Kiev State Choreography School in 2001.

Upon graduating from the Kiev State School of Choreography in 2001, she joined the National Shevchenko Opera of Ukraine (Kiev) and was promoted to the rank of soloist six months later.

Prima ballerina at the Mikhailovsky Theatre from 2007–2009.
Repertoire at the Mikhailovsky Theatre included: Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Nikia (La Bayadère), Masha (The Nutcracker), Sylph (La Sylphide), Giselle (Giselle), Raymonda (Raymonda), Kitri (Don Quixote), Medora (Le Corsaire), Sabina (Spartacus, choreography by Georgy Kovtun) and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet, choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky).

Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2009.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
La Bayadère (Gamzatti), choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Vakhtang Chabukiani,
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile),
George Balanchine’s Symphony in C,
Jerome Robbins’ In the Night.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to the Netherlands (Amsterdam).