Alexandra Gronskaya

• Honoured Artist of Russia (2011)

Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Tatiana Udalenkova).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1993.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Madhe) – choreography by August Bournonville;
Giselle (Bathilde);
Le Corsaire (“Forban” dance, Palestinian Dance);
La Bayadère (Ayah, Hindu Dance);
The Sleeping Beauty (Queen);
Swan Lake (Siegfried’s Mother, Hungarian Dance);
Raymonda (Countess Sybille, Panaderos, Mazurka);
Don Quixote (Mercedes);
Michel Fokine’s ballets – Polovtsian Dances (Polovtsian Woman), Schéhérazade (Zobeide) and Pétrouchka (Old Nurse);
, Les Noces (Mother of the Bride);
The Nutcracker (Frau Stahlbaum, Spanish Dance); choreography by Vasily Vainonen;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Cracovienne);
Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet, Maidservant at the Inn);
Apollo (Latona); choreography by George Balanchine;
Anna Karenina (Countess Vronskaya) – choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
Laurencia (Dance with the Castanets);
Resurrection (Soloist)
and dances in the operas Prince Igor (Captive) and Ruslan and Lyudmila (Lezghinka, Oriental Dance).

She has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Germany.