| | | • 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” for Alma in Glass Heart (2007–2008).
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 (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),
The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh Bahnu),
Leningrad Symphony (Girl),
Walpurgisnacht (Nymphs) – choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky,
ballets by George Balanchine – Prodigal Son (Siren), Serenade, Symphony in C (2nd Movement), The Four Temperaments (Choleric), Jewels (Rubies) and La Valse,
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins,
Pas de quatre (Marie Taglioni),
ballets by William Forsythe – Steptext, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated and 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,
Cinderella (Stepmother) – choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.
She was the first performer of the role of the Mare in Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky (2009).
She has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, China and the USA. |
