Staatsoper, Berlin
Polina Semionova was born in 1984 in Moscow. In 2002 she graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet's School, and Vladimir Malakhov engaged her as a principal dancer with the Berliner Staatsoper Ballet Company.
Prizes include the gold medal and Anna Pavlova Prize at the international ballet competition in Moscow in 2001, the junior prize at the international ballet competition of Nagoya (Japan) in 2002, first prize at the the Vaganova Competition in St Petersburg in 2002, the Daphne prize in 2004, the German critics' award and Zukunft prize in 2005 and Germany's Kulturpreis and Dancer of the Year in 2007.
Repertoire includes:
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Masha (The Nutcracker), choreography by Patrice Bart, Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), choreography by Rudolf Nureyev, Nikia (La Bayadère) Vladimir Malakhov's version, Tatiana (Cranko's Onegin), the title roles in Giselle, Manon, Cinderella and Sylvia, Sieglinde and Brünnhilde in Maurice Béjart's Ring around the Ring, soloist in Jiří Kyliáns Return to the Strange Land, George Balanchines' Ballet Imperial, Apollo and Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, Uwe Scholz' Ein Lindentraum, Christian Spuck's This, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Roland Petit's Carmen, Béjart's Serait ce la Mort, Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Clark Tippet's Max Bruch's Violin Concerto.
Has guested at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Stuttgart Ballet, Tokyo Ballet in Japan, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, English National Ballet in London, the Zurich Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet and La Scala in Milan in addition to appearances at international galas. Since 2005 she has been a guest performer at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Partners have included Vladimir Malakhov, Roberto Bolle, Igor Zelensky, Denis Matvienko, Sergei Filin, Ronald Savkovic and José Carreño.
In 2003 she took part in the music video Demo, letzter Tag by German pop star Herbert Grönemeyer.
