| | | • 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) and Swan Lake (Odette-Odile).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2008.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
La Sylphide (Sylph);
Giselle (Zulma, Pas de deux);
Pas de Quatre (Fanny Cerrito);
Le Corsaire (Gulnare);
Swan Lake (pas de trois);
Don Quixote (Grand pas variation);
Chopiniana (Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz, Prelude), Le Carnaval (Butterfly), choreography by Michel Fokine;
Les Noces (Soloist), choreography by Bronislava Nijinska;
The Young Lady and the Hooligan (Young Lady), choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky;
Cinderella (Khudyshka), choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
La Valse, Symphony in C (Third Movement), choreography by George Balanchine;
Approximate Sonata, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, choreography by William Forsythe;
Ondine (Naiad – coryphée role), choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart (Clock), choreography by Kirill Simonov.
Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Spain and France. |
