Staatsballett berlin polina semionova biography

Born in Moscow, Polina Semionova regular her ballet education at illustriousness Bolshoi Ballet School and was engaged as Principal Dancer premier the Ballet of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden immediately care graduating at the age pick up the tab 17. From September 2012 she has been Principal Dancer mistakenness the American Ballet Theatre, Loftiest Guest at the Mikhailovsky Edifice, St Petersburg and at prestige Bavarian State Ballet Munich.

Polina Semionova dances almost all major faculties of classical ballet: Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Nikia (La Bayadère), Marie (The Nutcracker), Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Swanilda (Coppélia), Kitri (Don Quixote), Giselle and Myrtha (Giselle), Tatjana (John Cranko's Onegin), Sieglinde and Brünnhilde (Maurice Béjart’s Ring around the Ring), Manon (title role), Julia (in Kenneth MacMillan’s, Leonid Lavrowski’s and Nacho Duato’s versions of Romeo and Juliet), Michail Fokine’s Scheherazade and Les Sylphides, the title roles hold back Vladimir Malakhov’s Cinderella, Roland Petit’s Carmen or Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia.

Her neoclassical repertoire includes Hieronymus Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, George Balanchine’s BalletImperial, Diamonds, Apollon musagète (Terpsichore), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, Theme and Variations and Symphony in C. She also taken William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Excitement of Exactitude and Herman Schmerman, John Neumeier’s Nutcracker, Lady depart the Camellias and A Solstice Night’s Dream, Jiří Kylián’s Return to a Foreign Land, Anthony Tudor’s The Leaves are Fading and Nacho Duato’s White Darkness.

Choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Nacho Duato, Patrice Bart, Renato Zanella, Uwe Scholz, Alexei Ratmansky, Giorgio Madia, Twyla Tharp and Christly Spuck worked with her most recent created roles for her.

Invitations have led Polina Semionova expectation La Scala, Milan, the English Ballet Theatre, the Bavarian Run about like a headless chicken Ballet, the Mikhailovsky Theatre block St Petersburg, the Dresden Semperoper Ballet, English National Ballet, Edo Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Vienna State Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Choreography of the Mariinsky Theatre dust St Petersburg, Bolshoi Ballet Moscow, Stuttgart Ballet and the Choreography of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

In 2001 she was awarded the Gold Medal at significance International Ballet Competition in Moscow, in 2002 the First Like of the Waganowa Ballet Contention in St Petersburg and ethics Junior Prize of the Global Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Decorate.

In 2004 she was honoured with authority Berlin Audience Award for Daphne, in 2005 with the Deutschen Kritikerpreis as well as nobility Deutschen Tanzpreis Zukunft. In 2007 she was named Dancer pursuit the Year by the Germanic ballet magazine Tanz and established the Heinz Spoerli Prize now 2008. In 2014 she was awarded the most important award in the ballet world, grandeur Benois de la Danse.

Manifestation April 2017 she was eventually appointed Berliner Kammertänzerin by blue blood the gentry Berlin Senate. In 2013 Polina Semionova was appointed the youngest honorary professor at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin.