Oxana Skorik is now a prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre

For Oxana Skorik the opening of the 233^rd season was marked by a promotion – she has now attained the highest rank in the ballet company’s hierarchy.

Oxana Skorik has been with the Mariinsky Ballet for nine years. Today her repertoire is expanding rapidly; in just the last season alone she worked on five roles including Juliet, Anna Karenina, Sylvia, Marguerite in Marguerite and Armand and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On 25 September, the opening of the new season at the Mariinsky Theatre, Oxana Skorik performed the title role in the ballet Raymonda on tour in California. On 2 October the ballerina will make her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre itself as Zobeide in Michel Fokine’s Schéhérazade.