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• Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2008)
Born in Leningrad.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1988.
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1988.
Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Madge);
Giselle (Bathilde);
Le Corsaire (Algerian Dance, “Forban”);
La Bayadère (Ayah, Indian Dance);
The Sleeping Beauty (the Queen, Carabosse);
Swan Lake (Siegfried’s Mother, Hungarian Dance, Spanish Dance, Mazurka);
Raymonda (Panaderos, Mazurka);
Don Quixote (Mercedes, Gipsy Dance, Fandango, Oriental Dance);
Michel Fokine’s ballets Schéhérazade (Odalisques) and Pétrouchka (Gypsy);
Les Noces (the Bride’s Mother, the Groom’s Mother) – choreography by Bronislava Nijinska;
Le Sacre du printemps (Three Hundred Year Old Woman);
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Ghirei’s Second Wife, Cracovienne, Polish Noblewoman);
Romeo and Juliet (Capulet’s Wife, Folk Dance, Nurse);
Shurale (Principal Matchmaker) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
Cinderella (Eastern Princess) – choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev;
The Legend of Love (Dance of the Court Dancers);
The Bedbug (Mother Renaissance);
Apollo (Latona) – choreography by George Balanchine;
Manon (Madame) – choreography by Kenneth Macmillan;
The Nutcracker (Frau Stahlbaum, Sugar Plum Fairy, Empress, Oriental Dance) – production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Fairy-Tramp), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Gypsy Dance) and Anna Karenina (Countess Vronskaya, Princess Shcherbatskaya);
The Magic Nut (Krysilda) – production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Donvena Pandoursky;
Lulu. Dream of an Anti-Star (Louise Brooks);
Ondine (Matteo’s Mother) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
The Golden Age (Sophie’s Mother) – choreography by Noah D. Gelber;
Pétrouchka (Nurse) – choreography by Michel Fokine, production by Gary Chryst
and dances in the operas Prince Igor (Captive Maiden), Khovanshchina (Dance of the Persian Girls), Ruslan and Lyudmila (Lezghinka), Betrothal in a Monastery (Bolero) and Carmen (Ole).
Took part in Mihail Chemiakin’s film version of The Nutcracker (2007).
Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Germany, the Netherlands, China and Taiwan.
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