Elena Yevseyeva

• Honoured Artist of the Udmurt Republic (2011);
• International Ballet Competition prize-winner (Seoul, 2009, 1st prize).

Elena Yevseyeva was born in Izhevsk.
In 2001 she graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of M. A. Vasilieva).
From 2001 to 2008 she was a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where she performed in the ballets The Nutcracker (Masha), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Diamond Fairy), La Bayadère (Gamzatti), Don Quixote (Kitri), Le Corsaire (Medora), Raymonda (Raymonda), Giselle (Giselle), Chopiniana (Mazurka, Seventh Waltz), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Cipollino (Radish), Spartacus (Aegina).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2008.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:

La Sylphide (Sylph), choreography by August Bournonville;
Giselle (Zulma, Classical Duet);
Pas de six from the ballet La Vivandière, choreography by Artur Saint-Léon;
Le Corsaire (Gulnare);
Grand pas from Paguita (variation);
Swan Lake (Pas de trois), choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Don Quixote (Kitri, Flower-sellers), choreography by Alexander Gorsky;
La Esmeralda (Diana and Acteon Pas de deux);
Chopiniana (Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz, Prelude, First Waltz), choreography by Michel Fokine;
Les Noces (Soloist), choreography by Bronislava Nijinska;
Shurale (Syuimbike), choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
Walpurgis Night (Bacchae), choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
The Legend of Love (Gold), choreography by Yuri Grigorovich;
The Young Lady and the Hooligan (The Young Lady), choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky;
Pas de quatre (Karlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito), choreography by Anton Dolin;
George Balanchine's Apollo (Polyhimnia), La Valse, Symphony in C (Third Movement);
The Nutcracker (Masha), stating by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Cinderella (Khudyshka), choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
William Forsythe's Approximate Sonata, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude;
Ondine (Two naiads), choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart (Clock), choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Yuri Smekalov's Parting, Presentiment of Spring (Three Women);
Vernal Waters, choreography by Asaf Messerer;
Without, choreography by Benjamin Millepied.

Her repertoire also includes:

Grand Pas Classique (choreography by Viktor Gzovsky), Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (choreography by George Balanchine), La Bayadère (Gamzatti, Nikia; choreography by Marius Petipa), Bhakti (choreography by Maurice Béjart) and Cinderella (Cinderella, Adagio from Act III; choreography by Alexei Ratmansky).

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Spain, France, Great Britain and Germany.

Upcoming performances:
2 June The Nutcracker
14 June Divertissement. Grand pas from ballet Paquita