Yulia Stepanova

Biography

Born in Orenburg. She graduated from Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Lyudmila Sofronova’s class, in 2009, and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year.

Among the leads danced with the Mariinsky Theatre:
Myrtha (Giselle)
Gamzatti (La Bayadere)
Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty)
Odette/Odile (Swan Lake)
Street Dancer, The Queen of Dryads (Don Quixote)
the title part (Firebird, choreography by M. Fokine)
Helena (Midsummer night dream, choreography by G. Balanchine)
Aegina (Spartaucus, choreography by L. Yakobson)
the title part (Sylvia, choreography by F. Ashton)
Fate (Carmen Suite, choreography by A. Alonso)
parts in Le Parc (by A. Preljocaj), The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (by W. Forsythe)/ Infra (by W. McGregor) etc.

In 2014-15, she danced with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre where she performed Myrtha and Gamzatti.

In 2015-16 season, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. At the beginning her coach was Marina Kondratieva. Now she rehearses under Lyudmila Semenyaka.

Repertoire

FOR THE BOLSHOI THEATRE

2015
Couple in Green (Russian Seasons by L. Desyatnikov, choreography by A. Ratmansky)
Hungarian Bride (Swan Lake by P.Tchaikovsky, Y. Grigorovich’s second version)

2016
The 1^st variation in Grand Pas, Queen of the Dryads, Street Dancer, 2nd variation in Grand Pas (Don Quixote by L. Minkus, A. Fadeyechev’s second production)
The leading couple (Frank Bridge Variations to music by B. Britten, choreography by by H. van Manen)
Bela (A Hero of Our Time by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov)
Myrtha (Giselle by A. Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, production by V. Vasiliev)
Nikia (La Bayadere by L. Minkus, choreography by M. Petipa, Yuri Grigorovich production)
Mireille de Poitiers (Boris Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen)
Lilac Fairy, Princess Florine (The Sleeping Beauty by P. Tchaikovsky, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)
The Leading Couple in Diamonds to music by P. Thcaikovsky (among the creators at the Bolshoi Theatre)
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky, second Y. Grigorovich's second version) — debuted with the Bolshoi Ballet Company on the Bolshoi Ballet tour to London
Medora (Le Corsaire by A. Adam, production and new choreography by A. Ratmansky and Y. Burlaka after M.Petipa) — debuted on the Bolshoi Ballet tour to London
Couple in Yellow (Russian Seasons)
The title part (Raymonda by A. Glazunov, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich's version)

2017
Ballerina (Etudes to music by C. Czerny, choreography by H. Lander)
Mekhmene Banu (A Legend of Love by A. Melikov, choreography by Y.Grigorovich)
Couple in Black (Forgotten Land to music by B. Britten, choreography by J. Kylián)

2018
Carmen (Carmen Suite to music by G. Bizet and R. Shchedrin; choreography by A. Alonso)
Aspicia (La Fille du Pharaon by C. Pugni, P. Lacotte’s production after M. Petipa)
The Diva (Nureyev by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov)

2019
Aegina (A. Khachaturian’s Spartacus, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)
Title role (Anna Karenina to music by P. Tchaikovsky, A. Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam, choreography by J. Neumeier)
Soloist Part 2 (Symphony in C to music by G. Bizet, choreography by G. Balanchine)
Kitri (Don Quixote)

Tours

December 2018 – Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (choreography by M. Petipa, L. Ivanov, K. Sergeyev version, staged by I. Zelensky) with NOVAT/ Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre (Prince Siegfried – Roman Polkovnikov).