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Giselle Pas De Deux – Romeo and Juliet Balcony Pas De Deux
YANA SELINA
(At present soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet. Saint-Petersburg.)
Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1997 (class of Marina Vasilieva). Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1997. Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (the Sylph); Giselle (Monna, Act I Pas de deux); Le Corsaire (Trio of Odalisques); La Bayadère (D’jampe, Bayadère);
The Sleeping Beauty (Canary Fairy, Little Red Riding-Hood, the White Cat) – revival of the 1890 production;
The Sleeping Beauty (Carefree Fairy, Gold Fairy, Diamond Fairy) – Konstantin Sergeyev’s version; Le Réveil de Flore (Aurore);
The Nutcracker (Bees’ Pas de trois) – production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Swan Lake (Pas de trios, Cygnets, Neapolitan Dance); Raymonda (Henrietta, Dreams scene variation, Grand pas);
Don Quixote (Amour, Flower-Seller, Variation); Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz);
Le Carnaval (Columbine, Papillon) and Pétrouchka; Romeo and Juliet (Juliet’s Companion, Folk Dance);
The Legend of Love (Friend of Shyrin, Dance of Gold); The Bedbug (Elzevir Renaissance); Pas de quatre (Carlotta Grisi);
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Calliope, Polyhymnia), Symphony in C (1st Movement), Theme and Variations,
The Four Temperaments (Melancholy), Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Scotch Symphony and La Valse;
Études; Now and Then – choreography by John Neumeier; Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Le Baiser de la fée (Friends of the Bride) and
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurses); William Forsythe’s ballets In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated and Approximate Sonata;
Reverence – choreography by Davis Dawson; Ondine (Two Naiads) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart (Gardener’s Wife) – choreography by Kirill Simonov; Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion (F.L.O.W., Three Point Turn ) and dances in the operas Sadko (Fish-Gold-Feat her), Ruslan and Lyudmila (Dances of Naina’s Charms) and Faust (Nymphs).
MIKHAIL LOBUKHIN
(At present principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow.)
Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In 2002, he completed his training at the A.Y. Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (ARB), a diploma with distinction and a bachelor of arts degree (Boris Bregvadze’s class) and, in the same year, joined the Mari insky Theatre Ballet Company where he danced all major star roles in the classical, neo-classical and modern repertoire.
Awards:
2002 – lst prize at the Vaganova-prix International Ballet Competition, founded by the Vaganova ARB.
2008 – Zolotoy Sofit, the most prestigious St. Petersburg theatre prize for his performance in the ballet For Four produced by Christopher Wheeldon (in the Best Actin g Ensemble in a Ballet nomination).
In January 2010, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company. His teacher-repetiteurs are Mikh ail Lavrovsky and Valery Lagunov. A small section of his extensive repertoire: Interpolated pas de deux (Giselle, choreography Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa) Ali, Lanquedem, Conrad (Le Corsaire, choreography Marius Petipa in a version by Pyotr Gusev) Solor (L a Bayadere, choreography Marius Petipa in a version by V. Ponomaryov and Vakhtang Chabukiani) Pas de trois (Swan Lake, choreography Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, in a version by Konstantin Sergeyev) Variation Raymonda, choreography Marius Petipa in a version by Konstanti n Sergeyev) Basil (Don Quixote, choreography Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky) Vatslav (Title Role (Romeo and Juliet Sergei Prokofiev, choreography Leonid Lavrovsky).
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Two Pieces for Het
ALEKSANDER ZHEMBROVSKYY
( At present soloist of the Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam)
Was born in Kiev (Ukraine) on 24 June 1982. He studied dancing at Kiev State Choreographic School. In 2005 h e joined the Dutch National Ballet and in the same year became Soloist. He also danced with the Ukrainian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, St. Petersburg Classical Ballet Theatre (Russia), Bayerisches Staatsballett (Germany) and the Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Alexander participated and won prizes in several International competitions and Gala’s. He has performed Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince in Nutcracker, Blue Bird and Prince Desire in Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire, Don Quichotte. His repertoire includes pieces from many different classical, neo classical and modern choreographers such as G. Balanchine, H. van Manen, T. Brandsen and C. Wheeldon.
VIKTORIYA ANANYAN
(At present soloist of the Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam)
Born in Yerevan, Armenia educated at the Perm Ballet School. She danced as a soloist with the Perm Ballet from 2003-2007 before coming to the Dutch National Ballet. There she danced lead roles in ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, Natalia Makarova and many others,With the Dutch National Ballet her principal roles include Swanhilda in Coppelia by Ted Brandsen, Nikya in La Bayadere, Le Corsaire, Balanchine pieces and many other classical choreographies as well as new creations by Hans van Manen, Krzystof Pastor and Ted Brandsen.
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Flames of Paris De Deux – La Fille Mal Gardee Pas De Deux
MARIA MISHINA
( At present soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet , Moscow)
Maria Mishina was judged the top female student at her class level in the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and awarded an Apogee Merit Scholarship for both of the 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 academic years: the fifth and sixth years of her training at the Bolshoi Academy. She danced many principal star roles in the extensive Bolshoi repertoire and is regarded as a living treasure of the younger Bolshoi star generations. As a winner of several gold medal prizes at International ballet competitions she is a worldwide eye catching ballerina gifted with pure, virtuoso and lyrical artistry. Graduated from Moscow state ballet school in 2009. Her ballet teacher was Katerina Bobrova.
The same year Maria was admitted in the Bolshoi theater. She is the winner of international ballet competitions: ” Tanzolymp 2006″(First place); “The young ballet of the World”( second place); 11-th Moscow international ballet competition(Third place),the special award of Galina Ulanova “Young talents of Russia”.
DIMITRY ZAGREBIN
(At present soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet , Moscow)
After graduation from the Moscow state ballet school in 2007 Dmitry was accepted to the Bolshoi Ballet Comp any. In the few years that he is working with the Bolshoi Dmitry has danced many virtuoso principal roles. Dmitry is a winner of internationa l ballet competitions in Moscow (first place and gold medal) as well as in the competition in Varna.
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Swan Lake Black Swan Pas De Deux – Sleeping Beauty Pas De Deux
ISAEVA ANASTASIA
(At present soloist at the Jacobson’s Russian State Ballet. Saint Petersburg)
Prize winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Ballet Competition (St Petersburg, 2006) Prize-winner at the Intternational Serge Lifar Competition (Kiev, 2002) Born in Kiev (Ukraine). She trained at the Kiev State Choreography School (classes of G. M. Pankov and R. A. Khilko) and subsequently from 2002 to 2006 at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (classes of Olga Iskand erova and Lyudmila Kovaleva). Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2006. Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Germany, the USA, the UK, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong and China.
YURY MIROV
(At present first soloist of St.-Petersburg Ballet)
1980 Born St-Petersburg
1990-1998 Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
1998-2000 Soloist SPBT (St.-Petersburg Tachkin company)
2000-2006 First soloist at SPBT
2007 Soloist of the Eifman Ballet Company
2007-2009 First soloist of the St.-Petersburg Ballet Company L.Yakobson(Yuri Petukhov director)
Roles: Swan Lake- Prince (various editorial), Pas-de-Trois, Sleeping Beauty- Prince, Blue Bird, Chopiniana- Yunosha, La Bayadere- Solor, Spartacus- Crassus, Giselle- Albert.