In 2013 she graduated from Vadim Pisarev’s School of Choreography in Donetsk. In 2017 she graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Arts of Kherson State University.
In 2013-2014, Daria taught classical dance to preschool children in the school of Vadim Pisarev.
In 2014-2015 she worked at the Russian Ballet Theater “Talarium et Lux”. Since 2017 – artist of the Moscow State Ballet Theater.
Elena was born in 1994 in Mytishchi. She graduated “Moscow Choreography School at MGTT “Gzhel ” in 2013. Elena worked in the Russian National Ballet Theater headed by E. Amosov. From 2014 to 2017 she worked in the Russian Ballet Theater. Since 2017, she is soloist in the Moscow State Ballet.
Sofya was born on October 18, 1986 in Moscow.
Educational Background and Teaching Experience
1995-2003 – Bolshoi Ballet Academy (graduated with honours).
2003-2011 – Russian Institute of theatre arts (GITIS), faculty of choreography, class of Nina Semizorova. After graduating from GITIS, she taught contemporary dance at a number of departments of the choreography faculty.
2013-2015 – Master’s degree at Russian Institute of theatre arts (GITIS) majoring in “Theatre arts. Contemporary stage dance and choreography” (class of Alla Sigalova).
Since 2008 she has regularly retrained in international ballet schools and master classes in Russia, Poland, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Member of the Union of Theatre Workers since 2011.
Since 2012 – teaching contemporary dance in the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
2003 – 2017– a leading ballet dancer in the Theatre Ballet Moscow Company
2019 – two-act ballet Cinderella for the Moscow State Ballet Theater
2019 – choreographer of the ballets “Arlequinade. New” and “ANIMA” for the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre.
2019 – choreographer of the Gala-performance “In the Power of Musical” in the Saratov Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
2019 – a piece for the project “Theatrical Fairy-tales of Ilze Liepa”.
2019 – choreographer of the ballet “Bolero” for the Galina Vishnevskaya College of Music and Theatre Arts (Moscow).
2019 – choreographer of the performance “SUPERminimal” for the Studio Theatre of contemporary dance (Moscow).
2019 – performer and choreographer of an independent project “Ixtab” (Moscow) – in cooperation with Konstantin Matulevskiy.
2018 – choreographer of the Eugeniy Plushenko Ice Show “Swan Lake”.
2018 – artistic director and choreographer of the TV “Big Ballet” project of Channel “Culture”; creator of the project “Encyclopedia of Ballet” for TV Channel “Culture”.
2018 – choreographer and performer of the ballet “Universe DQ. Producing endorphins” (OPEN LOOK XX, St. Petersburg).
2018 – contemporary ballets “Apples&Pies. Nostalgia” for the Voronezh Chamber Theatre – in cooperation with Konstantin Matulevkiy (long-list of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award).
2017 – contemporary dance piece for the Bolshoi Theatre Youth Ballet Program “Faces”.
2017 – one-act ballet “Memoriae” – two nominations for the Golden Mask National Theatre Award (Contemporary Dance – Best Production and Ballet/Contemporary Dance – Best Balletmaster/Best Choreographer) – in cooperation with Konstantin Matulevkiy.
2017 – performance “Measure of Fear” for the Theatre Ballet Moscow – in cooperation with Konstantin Matulevkiy.
2017 – performer and choreographer of the project “Arzamas.academy. 9 languages of contemporary dance”.
2016 – one-act ballet “Orchestra” for the Theatre Ballet Moscow (long-list of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award).
2016 – contemporary dance piece “Raiskiy” for the Competition for young choreographers at the CONTEXT. Diana Vishneva Festival.
2015 – a piece “Wormholes and Jumping Moles” for contemporary dance laboratory CHOREODROME of the Theatre Ballet Moscow and Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg.
2015 – contemporary piece “Alternative” for the 12th International Dance Festival DANZOLYMP (Berlin, Germany).
2015 – contemporary dance piece for DANCE-PLATFORMA choreographers workshop in Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
2014 – 2017– contemporary dance pieces for TV projects on the “First Channel”, “Russia 1” Channel, “Culture” Channel and TNT Channel.
He was born in Moscow in 1968. In 1986 he graduated from Moscow Ballet School (now Moscow State Academy of Choreography), class of Pyotr Pestov; in the same year he became a principal soloist with the Russian Ballet Theatre headed by V. Gordeev. Since 2006, he was the coach-repetiteur and since April 2007 the artistic director of the Russian Ballet Theatre.
In 1993-1996 he studied at the choreographic faculty of Russian Institute of theatre arts (course of V. Gordeev). In 1999 he graduated with honours from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography as a ballet teacher.
Since 2003 he was a senior teacher at the faculty of choreography and ballet studies in the Classical Legacy and Ballet Repertoire discipline.
From January 2009 to March 2011, Yuri was Bolshoi Theatre Director of Ballet.
Since August 2017 he has been the artistic director of the ballet company at Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Honoured artist of Russia, coach-repetiteur, ballet master of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Irina graduated from Moscow Ballet School and was accepted to the Bolshoi ballet company. In 1988 she left the stage. Irina’s daughter Tatyana Lazareva now continues the dynasty as a soloist in the Bolshoi ballet company.
In 1984 Irina graduated from Russian Institute of Theatre Arts named after V. Lunacharsky (now Russian Institute of theatre arts (GITIS)) majoring as both ballet director and ballet master. She is a member of the International Choreography Union. In 1991-1995 she was a Mime Ensemble coach-repetiteur at the Bolshoi Theatre. Since 1995 she has been the ballet master – repetiteur of this ballet company.
Irina has staged two ballets for Moscow State Ballet Theatre, Thumbelina (2017) to music by Tchaikovsky, and Spartacus (2018) to the music by Khachaturian.
Ekaterina was born in Moscow in 1993. She graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2013. Ekaterina worked in Mikhaylovsky theater from 2013 to 2016.
In 2012 Ekaterina participated in Dance Open Festival, Savonlinna, Finland. In 2016 she participated in Ulyana Lopatkina dance tour in Israel (Pas de Quatre).
From 2016 to 2018 Ekaterina worked in St-Petersburg Jacobson State Ballet theatre.
Since 2018 she is soloist in Moscow State Ballet.
She was born in Moscow in 1984. Graduating Bolshoi ballet school in in 2002, Semionova joined the Berlin State Ballet as a principal upon the invitation of its artistic director Vladimir Malakhov becoming the youngest principal in the company’s history at the age of 18.
In 2003, at the age of 19, Semionova performed with the English National Ballet in Swan Lake, receiving approving reviews from English critics.
In 2012 she moved to New York and became a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.
In 2013 she was named professor at the Berlin State Ballet School. In 2014, she returned back to Berlin Staatsballett with her return-performance which was Maurice Bejart’s iconic Bolero.
She was born in Buenos Aires and started dancing at the age of three. At the age of six she was admitted to the Dance school of the Teatro Colón, and at the age of 14 she joined the ballet company. She went on tours with the theatre as member of corps de ballet and a soloist, danced with Maximiliano Guerra.
In 1997 she was admitted to the The Royal Ballet School in London and a year later, after graduation, she became member of Royal Ballet company. She danced as first soloist for one and a half years, and in 2002, at the age of 20, she became a principal.
She works with Moscow state ballet as a guest soloist.