Evgenia Obraztsova

Biography

Was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). She graduated from Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Marina Vasilieva’s class, in 2002, and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year.

Her repertoire for Mariinsky included, among others, such roles as
Sylph (La Sylphide)
Title part (Giselle)
Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty)
Kitri (Don Quixote)
Juliet (Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo & Juliet)
Shirin (yuri Grigorovich’s A Legend of Love)
Leading parts in George Balanchine’s ballets:
Terpsichore (Apollo)
4th Movements Soloist (Symphony in C)
Ballet Imperial
Tchaikovsky Pas de deux
Leading parts in William Forsythe’s ballets:
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
Approximate Sonata
Jerome Robbins’s In the Night
Leading parts in Alexei Ratmasky’s ballets:
Title role (Cinderella)
Tsar-Maid (The Humpbacked Horse)
Kitty (Anna Karenina).

She created the title role in Ondine by Pierre Lacotte, Flora in Marius Petipa’s The Awakening of Flora, Colombine in Mikhail Fokine’s Carnaval, Syuimbike in Leonid Yakobson’s Shurale.

Since 2010, Evgenia Obraztsova has been guest soloist with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.

In 2012, she joined Bolshoi Ballet.
She is coached by Nadezhda Gracheva.

Repertoire

AT THE BOLSHOI THEATRE

2011
Kitri (Don Quixote by L.Minkus, choreography by M. Petipa, A. Gorsky, A. Fadeychev's version)
2012 Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty by P.Tchaikovsky, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich's version)
Anyuta (Anyuta to music by V. Gavrilin, choreography by V. Vasiliev)
Sylphide (H. Levenskiold’s La Sylphide, choreography by A. Bournonville, J. Kobborg's version)
Giselle (Giselle by A. Adam, choreography by J. Coralli, J. Perrot, M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich's version)
Two Couples in Emeralds (Part I of Jewels, music by G. Faure, choreography by G. Balanchine) — was among creators at the Bolshoi Theatre
Prelude and the 7^th Waltz (Chopiniana; choreography by M. Fokine)
Aspicia (C. Pugni's La Fille du Pharaon, P. Lacotte production after M. Petipa)
Terpsichore (Apollon Musagète by I. Stravinsky, choreography by G. Balanchine)
Marie (Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)

2013
Nikia (L. Minkus' La Bayadere, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich's version)
The Leading Couple in Diamonds to music by P. Thcaikovsky
Tatiana (Onegin to music by P. Tchaikovsky, choreography by J. Cranko)
Angela (Marco Spada by D.-F.-E. Auber, P. Lacotte's production) — creation at the Bolshoi Theatre

2014
Coralie (L. Desyatnikov’s Lost Illusions , choreography by A. Ratmansky) — debuted on the Bolshoi Ballet’s tour to Paris
Marguerite Gautier (Lady of the Camellias to music by F. Chopin, choreography by J. Neumeier)

2017
Shireen (A Legend of Love by A. Melikov, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)
Jeanne (B. Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris, production and new choreography by A. Ratmansky after V. Vainonen) — debuted on the Bolshoi Ballet’s tour to Japan
Ballerina (Etudes to music by C. Czerny, choreography by H. Lander)
Juliet (S. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, choreography by A. Ratmansky)

2018
Swanilda (Coppelia by L. Delibes, choreography by M. Petipa and E. Cecchetti, S. Vikharev’s version)

2019
Hermione (The Winter’s Tale by J. Talbot, choreography by Ch.Wheeldon)
Soloist Part 1 (Symphony in C to music by G. Bizet, choreography by G. Balanchine)
Lover (Gaîté Parisienne to music by J. Offenbach/ M. Rosenthal, choreography by M.Bejart) — creation at the Bolshoi Theatre

Tours

Ms. Obraztsova as a guest artist performed: title role in Cinderella by Carla Fracci (2005), and Marguerite in Faust by Luciano Cannito (2006), both with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Kitri in Don Quixote, NBA Ballet, Tokyo, 2008; Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Ballet Covent Garden, 2009.

She also appeared at numerous festivals and gala-concerts, including Roberto Bolle and Friends at Teatro alla Scala Milan, and Malakhov and Friends at Staatsoper Berlin.