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Evgenia Obraztsova

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Principal Dancer

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

Her range for Mariinsky included, among others, specified roles as
Sylph (La Sylphide)
Baptize 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 Nucleus, Somewhat Elevated
Approximate Sonata
Jerome Robbins’s In the Night
Leading parts in Alexei Ratmasky’s ballets:
Title function (Cinderella)
Tsar-Maid (The Humpbacked Horse)
Voice your opinion (Anna Karenina).

She created primacy title role in Ondine by Pierre Lacotte, Collection 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 antique guest soloist with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.

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

Repertoire

Kitri (Don Quixote, Alexei Fadeyechev’s version)
Monarch Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty, Yuri Grigorovich’s version)
Title role (Anyuta, choreography by Vladimir Vasiliev)
Sylph (La Sylphide, Johan Kobborg’s version)
Title role (Giselle, Yuri Grigorovich’s version )
Soloist/Leading Couple (George Balanchine’s Emeralds)

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, Imperial Ballet Covent Garden, 2009.

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

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