Yelizaveta Cheprasova

• Prize-winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Ballet Competition (St Petersburg, 2006)
• Prize-winner at the International Serge Lifar Competition (Kiev, 2002)

Born in Kiev (Ukraine). She trained at the Kiev State Choreography School (classes of G. M. Pankov and R. A. Khilko) and subsequently from 2002 to 2006 at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (classes of Olga Iskanderova and Lyudmila Kovaleva). Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2006.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Nancy); choreography by August Bournonville,
Le Corsaire (Gulnara, Trio of Odalisques),
Giselle (Classical Duet),
La Bayadère (Manu, Trio of Shadows),
The Sleeping Beauty (Breadcrumb Fairy, Silver Fairy, Canary Fairy); choreography by Marius Petipa, revival of the 1890 production,
Swan Lake (Cygnets, Pas de trois, Neapolitan); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Raymonda (Grand pas, variation in the Grand pas and Dream scene); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Don Quixote (Amour, Act IV Variation); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
Michel Fokine’s ballets Le Spectre de la rose, Pétrouchka (Ballerina) and Le Carnaval (Columbine, Butterfly),
The Nutcracker (Masha); choreography by Vasily Vainonen,
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Bell Dance); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov,
Leonid Lavrovsky’s ballets Romeo and Juliet (Beggars), Walpurgis Nacht (Bacchae),
The Legend of Love (Gold Dance); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich,
George Balanchine’s ballets Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), The Four Temperaments (Two Melancholics), Symphony in C (1st Movement), Theme and Variations and Tarantella;
The Nutcracker (Masha, the Bees’ Pas de trois), staging by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Cinderella) and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurses),
and Glass Heart (Clock); music by Alexander von Zemlinsky, choreography by Kirill Simonov.

Her repertoire also includes:
Pas de deux from the ballets Coppélia, Flames of Paris, Harlequinade and La Fille mal gardée and the pas de trois from the ballet Die Puppenfee.

She took part in the closing gala concert of the VIII International Dance Open Festival (St Petersburg, 2009) and the closing gala concert of the Diaghilev. Postscriptum festival at the Alexandrinsky Theatre (St Petersburg, 2009), performing George Balanchine’s Tarantella together with Daniel Ulbricht.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Germany, the USA, the UK, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong and China.