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• Honoured Artist of Russia (2008)
• Prize-winner at the IX Arabesque-2006 International Ballet Competition (Perm, 2006)
• Recipient of Ballet magazine’s Spirit of Dance prize in the category “Rising Star” (2006)
• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, in the category “Best female role in ballet” for the role of the Queen of the Sea in Ondine (2006)
• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, in the category “Best female role in ballet” in Approximate Sonata (2005)
• Prize-winner at the DANCE OPEN International Ballet Festival in the category “Ms Virtuosa” (2010)
Born in Krasnoyarsk.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001 (class of Marina Vasilieva).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2001.
Her repertoire includes:
Giselle (Giselle, Myrtha, Zulma);
Le Corsaire (Medora);
La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzatti);
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile);
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Gold Fairy, Diamond Fairy);
Raymonda (Raymonda);
Don Quixote (Kitri);
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet);
Spartacus (Phrygia) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh Bahnu);
Grand pas classique – choreography by Viktor Gzovsky;
George Balanchine’s Apollo (Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Calliope), Serenade, Symphony in C (I Movement), Theme and Variations, The Four Temperaments, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Jewels (Rubies, Diamonds) and Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Tarantella;
In the Night – choreography Jerome Robbins;
Manon – choreography Kenneth MacMillan;
Études (soloist) – choreography Harald Lander;
Ondine (Queen of the Sea) – choreography Pierre Lacotte;
Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella (Khudishka, Female Dance), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Tsar Maiden);
Dolce, con fuoco – choreography Svetlana Anufrieva;
The Nutcracker (Masha), staging by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov;
William Forsythe’s Approximate Sonata, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated;
The Ring – choreography Alexei Miroshnichenko;
Aria Suspended (soloist) – choreography Peter Quanz
Bolero Factory (The Soul) – choreography Yuri Smekalov.
First performer of the roles of the Queen of the Sea (Pierre Lacotte’s production of Ondine, 2006), the Tsar Maiden (Alexei Ratmansky’s The Little Humpbacked Horse, 2009) and Phrygia (Leonid Yakobson's Spartacus, 2010).
Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and China.
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