Tatiana Krasina

Biography

She was born in Balashikha (Moscow region). In 1966 she graduated from the Moscow ballet school (now the Moscow State Choreographic Academy) and joined the Ballet Company of the Bolshoi Theater where she danced up to 1986.

Repertoire

Court dancers (A Legend of Love. Music by Arif Melikov. choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)

Polish bride (Swan Lake; choreography by Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov in the version by Yuri Grigorovich)

Gold Fairy, Sapphire Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty by P.Tchaikovsky, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich version)

A street dancer, Juanita (Don Quixote by L. Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky)

Pas de trois (Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky. Choreography by A. Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, A. Messerer)

Tobacco Girls (Carmen Suite to music by Bizet-Shchedrin, A. Alonso production)

Princess Sorokina (Anna Karenina by R. R. Shchedrin, choreography by M. Plisetskaya, N. Ryzhenko and V. Smirnova-Golovanova)

Panenka (Boris Asafiev’s The Fountain of Bakhchisaray; choreography by R. Zakharov)

Heralds of victory (Ivan the Terrible to music by S. Prokofiev, choreography by Y. Grigorovich) — was among creators of this ballet

Friends to Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet. Music by S. Prokofiev. Choreography by Y. Grigorovich) — was among creators of this ballet

Countesses Cherry (Cipollino. Music by Karen Khachaturyan. Production by Genrikh Mayorov)

Now she is a leading teacher-repetiteur for the women’s corps de ballet. Two her sons — Egor and Roman Simatchev — dance in the troupe.