Yana Selina

Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1997 (class of Marina Vasilieva).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1997.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (the Sylph),
Giselle (Monna, Act I Pas de deux),
Le Corsaire (Trio of Odalisques),
La Bayadère (D’jampe, Bayadère),
The Sleeping Beauty (Canary Fairy, Little Red Riding-Hood, the White Cat); revival of the 1890 production,
The Sleeping Beauty (Carefree Fairy, Gold Fairy, Diamond Fairy); Konstantin Sergeyev’s version,
Le Réveil de Flore (Aurore),
Swan lake (Pas de trois, Cygnets, Neapolitan Dance),
Raymonda (Henrietta, Dream scene variation, Grand pas),
Don Quixote (Amour, Flower-Seller, Variation),
Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz), Le Carnaval (Columbine, Papillon) and Pétrouchka,
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov,
Spartacus (Menada); choreography by Leonid Yacobson,
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet’s Companion, Folk Dance),
The Legend of Love (Friend of Shyrin, Dance of Gold),
The Bedbug (Elzevir Renaissance),
Pas de quatre (Carlotta Grisi);
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Calliope, Polyhymnia), Symphony  n C (I Movement), Theme and Variations, The Four Temperaments (Melancholy), Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Scotch Symphony and La Valse,
Études,
Now and Then; choreography by John Neumeier,
The Nutcracker (Bees’ Pas de trois); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Le Baiser de la fée (Friends of the Bride) and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurses),
William Forsythe’s ballets In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated and Approximate Sonata,
Reverence; choreography by Davis Dawson,
Ondine (Two Naiads); choreography by Pierre Lacotte,
Glass Heart (Gardener’s Wife); choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion (F.L.O.W., Three Point Turn),
Without; choreography by Benjamin Millepied
and dances in the operas Sadko (Fish-Gold-Feather), Ruslan and Lyudmila (Dances of Naina’s Charms) and Faust (Nymphs).

She has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, Finland, Greece, China, Hong Kong and Azerbaijan.