Nadezhda Batoeva

• Recipient of the Hope of Russia prize (2008).

Born in Neryungri.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2009 (class of Professor Lyudmila Safronova).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Effie, Sylphs) – choreography by August Bournonville;
La Bayadère (Indian Dance) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani;
The Sleeping Beauty (the White Cat) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revival of the 1890 production;
Don Quixote (Amour, Flower-sellers) – choreography by Alexander Gorsky;
Le Carnaval (Columbine) – choreography by Michel Fokine;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Polish Noblewomen, Bell Dance) – choreography by Rostislav Zakharov;
Romeo and Juliet (Tavern's servants) – choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
Spartacus (Etruscans) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
The Nutcracker (Retainer, Chinese Dance, Pas de trois of the Bees) – staging by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Anna Karenina (Kitty) and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurse);
Pétrouchka (Dancer) – choreography by Michel Fokine and staging by Gary Chryst;
Presentiment of Spring (Three Women) – choreography by Yuri Smekalov,
and the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila (Dances of Naina’s Charms).

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Spain.