Mazurka.Raymonda.Partnered by Alexander Somov.Photo by Andrei Melanyin.
Mazurka.Raymonda.
Partnered by Alexander Somov.
Photo by Andrei Melanyin.
In The Golden Age.Photo by Andrei Melanyin.
In The Golden Age.
Photo by Andrei Melanyin.

						

Biography

She was born in Moscow. In 1984 after graduation from the Moscow Choreographic College (now the Moscow State Choreographic Academy, the graduation class of Sofia Golovkina), she joined the Ballet Company of the Bolshoi Theater. In a very short time after that she was entrusted with solo and leading parts. She rehearsed these parts under the guidance of Galina Ulanova.

Repertoire

1985

Two wilises (Giselle by A. Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa in the version by L. Lavrovsky)

1986

Helen of Troy (dance scene in Iphigénie en Aulide to music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, choreography by A. Petrov)
Cinderella (The Sleeping Beauty by P.Tchaikovsky, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich version)

1987

Carefree Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty)
Friends to Prince (Swan Lake; choreography by Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov in the version by Yuri Grigorovich)

1988

Clémence (Raimonda by A.Glazunov. Choreography by M. Petipa in the version of Y. Grigorovich)
Madame Ragueneau (Cyrano de Bergerac to music by Marius Constant, production by Roland Petit)
Princess Florina (The Sleeping Beauty)

1989

Hungarian bride (Swan Lake)

1990

Henrietta (Raimonda)
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake)

1997

Friends to Giselle, two willises (Giselle in the version by V. Vasiliev, and then in the version by Y. Grigorovich)
Carefree Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty)
Cinderella (The Sleeping Beauty)

1998

3d variation in the “Shadows” scene, Grand Pas (La Bayadère by L. Minkus. Choreography by M. Petipa, Yuri Grigorovich production)
Dance scene in La traviata by G. Verdi (choreography by V. Vasiliev)
2nd variation in Grand Pas (Don Quixote by L.Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in the version by Yuri Grigorovich and then in the production by A. Fadeechev)
Final Waltz and Apotheosis (Nutcracker, by P. Tchaikovsky, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)
11th waltz (Chopiniana to music by F. Chopin, choreography by Mikhail Fokine)

2000

2nd variation in the scene Raimonda’s dreams (Raimonda)

2001

Queen of Dryads (Don in the version by A. Fadeechev)
Three swans, Hungarian bride, Russian bride (Swan Lake, in the 2nd version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Henriette (Raimonda)

2005

Society girl (Girl in red) (Gaite parisienne to music by Jacques Offenbach, in M. Rozental’s adaptation)
Mazur (Raimonda)
Spanish dance (Don Quixote)

2006

Two fashionable pairs (The Golden Age by D. Shostakovich. Production by Yuri Grigorovich)

2008

Countess Sybilla de Doris (Raimonda)
Duchess (The Sleeping Beauty)
Marie-Antoinette (Boris Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen)

2009

The Sovereign Princess (Swan Lake)
Duchess (Don Quixote)
Aloise de Gondelaurier (Cesare Pugni’s La Esmeralda; Choreography by M. Petipa, production and new choreographic version by Y. Burlaka, V. Medvedev)

In 1991-94 she danced at the Vienna Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Then she became the leading soloist at “The Kremlin Ballet” theater, where she danced leading roles in many ballets from the classical repertoire.

In 1997 she returned to the Bolshoi Theater.