Yekaterina Kondaurova

• Recipient of the Benois de la Danse prize (2006).
• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, in the category “Best Female Role in Ballet” in 2008 for the role of Alma in the ballet Glass Heart and in 2010 for the role of Anna Karenina in the ballet of the same name (2010).
• Recipient of the Golden Mask, Russia’s most prestigious theatre prize, for “Best female role in ballet” (Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, 2011).

Born in Moscow.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001.
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2001.

Repertoire includes:
Giselle (Myrtha, Zulma);
Le Corsaire (Medora);
La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzatti);
The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Konstantin Sergeyev;
The Nutcracker (Queen of the Snowflakes, Oriental Dance) – production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile);
Raymonda (Henrietta);
Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads, Street Dancer, Act IV variation);
ballets by Michel Fokine – The Firebird (Firebird), Schéhérazade (Zobeide) and The Swan;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Zarema);
Spartacus (Phrygia, Aegina) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh Bahnu);
Leningrad Symphony (Girl);
Walpurgis Night (Nymphs) – choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
Carmen Suite (Carmen) – choreography by Alberto Alonso;
ballets by George Balanchine – Prodigal Son (Siren), Serenade, Symphony in C (II Movement), The Four Temperaments (Choleric), Jewels (Rubies), La Valse;
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins;
Pas de quatre (Marie Taglioni);
ballets by William Forsythe – Steptext, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Approximate Sonata;
Reverence – choreography by David Dawson;
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Marquise de Dorimaine) – choreography by Nikita Dmitrievsky;
Ondine (Queen of the Sea) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart (Alma) – choreography by Kirill Simonov;
ballets by Alexei Ratmansky – Cinderella (Stepmother), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare), Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina);
Simple Things – choreography by Emil Faski
and Le Parc (soloist), choreography by Angelin Preljocaj.

First performer of the roles of Alma in Kirill Simonov’s ballet Glass Heart (2008), the Mare in Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky (2009), the Soloist in Emil Faski’s ballet Simple Things (2010) and Aegina in the 2010 full-scale revival of the ballet Spartacus with choreography by Leonid Yakobson (1956).

She has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, China and the USA.