Nadezhda Gonchar

<Nadezhda Gonchar>
  

Prize-winner (1st prize) at the International Lifar Ballet Competition (1999).

Born in Kiev (Ukraine).
Graduated with honours from the Kiev State Choreography School in 1996 and was engaged as a soloist with the Kiev National Shevchenko Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
There her repertoire included: Giselle (Myrtha), The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Lilac Fairy), Grand pas from Paquita (soloist and variations), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet, staged by Serge Lifar), Don Quixote (Dryad), Tchaikovsky Pas de deux (by Balanchine) and Festival of Flowers (Pas de deux).

Soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre since 2002.

Repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Sylph);
Giselle (Myrtha, Monna, Pas de deux);
Le Corsaire (Gulnara, the three Odalisques);
La Bayadére (Shadows), revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani;
The Sleeping Beauty (Candide, Miettes qui Tombent, Fairy Diamond), revival of the 1890 production;
Swan Lake (Prince´s Friend, Big Swans, Two Swans);
Raymonda (Dream), revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Don Quixote (Street Dancer, Dryad, Variation);
Chopiniana (Eleventh Waltz, Prelude);
Le spectre de la rose;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria);
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet´s companion);
Apollo (Calliope);
Prodigal son (The Siren);
The Four Temperaments;
Symphony in C (3 rd Movements);
Ballet Imperial;
Jewels (Rubies, Emeralds);
The Nutcracker (Masha), production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Cinderella (Cinderella, Female Dance), choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
Steptext;
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude;
Ondine (Giannina, Naiad), choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart ( The Gardener’s Wife);

Has toured with the Mariinsky Theatre to UK, Germany and China..

Nadezhda Gonchar´s website: http://www.ngonchar.narod.ru