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• Honoured Artist of Russia (2009)
• Diploma-recipient at the Vaganova-Prix international competition
Alexandra Iosifidi was born in Leningrad. After graduating from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Nina Sakhnovskaya) in 1995, she joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company.
Her repertoire includes:
Giselle (Myrtha);
La Bayadère (Grand pas classique from Act II);
The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy);
Swan Lake (Big Swans, Spanish Dance);
Don Quixote (Mercedes, Street Dancer);
Michel Fokine's ballets – The Dying Swan, The Firebird (Firebird) and Schéhérazade (Zobeide);
Le Sacre du printemps (the Chosen Maiden) – choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky;
Les Noces (the Bride) – choreography by Bronislava Nijinska;
Pas de quatre (Lucile Grahn, Marie Taglioni);
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Zarema);
Leonid Yakobson's ballets – Shurale (Fiery Witch) and Spartacus (Maiden from Gades);
The Legend of Love (Turkish Dance);
Le Jeune homme et la mort (Death);
Carmen-Suite (Fate) – choreography by Alberto Alonso;
La Valse – choreography by George Balanchine;
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated – choreography by William Forsythe;
Alexei Ratmansky's ballets – Le Baiser de la fée (Fairy), Cinderella (Stepmother) and Anna Karenina (Princess Betsy);
The Nutcracker (Queen of the Snowflakes, Oriental Dance) – production by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov
and dances in the operas A Life for the Tsar (Waltz), Prince Igor (Captive), and Ruslan and Lyudmila (Dances of Naina’s Charms, Soloist).
Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, the USA, Brazil and Japan. She has taken part in the Dance Open International Festival and the Cheboksary International Ballet Festival.
She has performed at the Hermitage Theatre (as Odette-Odile in the ballet Swan Lake).
In 2007 she performed the role of the Chosen Maiden in Le Sacre du printemps at the Opera di Roma, and in 2009 she returned there for the role of Cleopatra in Michel Fokine’s ballet Cleopatra (revival staged by Vyacheslav Khomyakov).
She performed the role of the Chosen Maiden in the ballet Le Sacre du printemps for the DVD Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes (released by the Mariinsky Theatre to mark one century of the Saisons russes, 2009).
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