Elena Evseeva
Elena Evseeva | |
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 Elena Evseeva in 2012 | |
| Born | 13 December 1982 |
| Occupation | Ballerina |
| Career | |
| Current group | Mariinsky Theatre |
Elena Evseeva (Russian: Елена Евсeева) (born December 13, 1982, Izhevsk) is a Russian ballerina, soloist of the Mikhailovsky (2001—2008) and the Mariinsky (since 2008) theaters. Honored Artist of the Republic of Udmurtia.
Biography
Elena Evseeva was born in Izhevsk; her father is an economist, mother is the master of sports in artistic gymnastics. She then moved to Perm, where she enrolled in the Perm Ballet School. At the age of 14, she moved to St. Petersburg, after a teacher from the Ballet theater of Boris Eifman, had noticed Elena among the spectators of the International Ballet Competition held in Moscow, and advised parents to transfer her to the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. In 2001 she graduated from the Academy in the class of Honored Art Worker Marina Vasilieva[1][2][3] and was taken to the ballet troupe of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where she was a leading soloist from 2001 to 2008.[1] Since 2008, she is dancing in the Mariinsky Theatre on the position of the first soloist.[2] Evseeva works under the supervision of the teacher-tutor Lyubov Kunakova.[4]
In 2009, dancing in a duet with Konstantin Zverev at Seoul International Ballet Competition, Evseeva won the I Prize.[1][2]
In 2011, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Udmurt Republic.[2]
Repertoire
Mikhailovsky Theatre
- The Nutcracker : Mary
- The Sleeping Beauty : Diamond Fairy, Princess Aurora
- La Bayadère : Gamzatti
- Don Quixote : Kitri
- Le Corsaire : Medora
- Raymonda : Raymonda
- Giselle : Giselle
- Les Sylphides : Mazurka, Seventh Waltz
- Swan Lake : Odette and Odile
- Chipollino : Radish
- Spartacus : Aegina.[2]
Mariinsky Theatre
- La Sylphide in La Sylphide — choreography by August Bournonville in the version of Elsa—Marianne von Rosen;
- Zulma, pas de deux of act I, in Giselle — choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa;
- Gamzatti, shadows in La Bayadere — choreography by Marius Petipa, in the version of Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani;
- Gulnara, Odalisque in Le Corsaire — staged by Pyotr Gusev based on the composition and choreography by Marius Petipa;
- variation, Grand pas in Paquita — choreography by Marius Petipa;
- pas de trois of the act I in Swan Lake — choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, in the version of Konstantin Sergeyev;
- Flower, Kitri in Don Quixote — choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky;
- Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz, Prelude, First Waltz in Les Sylphides — choreography by Michel Fokine;
- The Rite of Spring — choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky;
- Soloist in Les noces — choreography by Bronislava Nijinska;
- Mary in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai — choreography by Rostislav Zakharov;
- Mary in The Nutcracker — choreography by Vasily Vainonen
- The young lady in The Lady and the Hooligan — choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky;
- Syuimbike in Shurale — choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
- Bacchante in Walpurgis Night — choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
- dance of gold, Shirin in Legend of Love — choreography by Yury Grigorovich;
- Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre — choreography by Anton Dolin.
- ballets by George Balanchine:
- Polyhymnia in Apollo,
- Waltz,
- Soloist of the part III in Symphony in C,
- Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux,
- Butterfly in Midsummer Night's Dream;
- Mary, classical trio in The Nutcracker — production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
- Thin girl, Cinderella in Cinderella — choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
- ballets by William Forsythe:
- In the Middle Somewhat Elevated,
- Approximate Sonata;
- Two naiads in Ondine — choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
- • Hours in Glass Heart — choreography by Kirill Simonov.
- Ballets by Yuri Smekalov:
- Parting,
- three women in Premonition of Spring,
- Intensio,
- Parasha in The Bronze Horseman;
- Without — choreography by Benjamin Millepied;
- Infra — choreography by Wayne McGregor.
- Also in the repertoire
- Pas de deux of Diana and Actaeon in Esmeralda — choreography by Agrippina Vaganova;
- Pas de six in La Vivandiere — choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon;
- Grand Pas Classique — choreography by Victor Gsovsky;
- Torrents of Spring — choreography Kasyan Goleizovsky as amended by Vadim Desnitsky;
- Torrents of Spring — choreography by Asaf Messerer;
- Pas de deux in Flames of Paris — choreography by Vasili Vainonen;
- Bhakti — choreography by Maurice Béjart;
- Labyrinth — choreography by Kseniya Zvereva.
References
- ^ a b c Aisylu Kadyrova (2012-05-23). "Язык тела — самый красивый язык на свете" (in Russian). Kazan Evening. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ^ a b c d e "Elena Evseeva" (in Russian). Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ^ "Кафедра методики преподавания классического и дуэтно-классического танца" (in Russian). Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ^ Aisylu Kadyrova (2012-05-29). "Сегодняшние балерины гораздо тоньше и намного выше" (in Russian). Kazan Evening. Retrieved 2016-08-17.