Polina Semionova

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Polina Alexandrowna Semionova ( Russian Полина Александровна Семионова , scientific transliteration Polina Semionova ; born September 13, 1984 in Moscow ) is a Russian ballet dancer. She was engaged in Berlin at the age of 18 and now works in New York and as a principal guest at the Berlin State Ballet . In parallel to her stage career, Polina Semionova works at the State Ballet School Berlin , where she was appointed the youngest honorary professor in 2013. Since 2017 she has been a “Berlin Chamber Dancer”.

Life

Semionova grew up on the outskirts of Moscow. Her mother was an English teacher, her father a biotechnologist, both of them unrelated to ballet. Her brother Dmitri, who was two years her senior, was discovered to be ice skating and she too took lessons. When he switched to ballet, she did too. Polina Semionova graduated from the Ballet School of the Bolshoi Theater with honors in 2002.

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Wladimir Anatoljewitsch Malachow , artistic director and first soloist at the Berlin State Ballet , who was building up a new company, engaged Polina Semionova as first soloist when she was 18 years old. Since then she has danced the Odette / Odile in Swan Lake , the Nikya in La Bayadère , the Cinderella, the Aurora in Sleeping Beauty , the Giselle , the Tatiana in Onegin , the Manon and in Ring um den Ring first the Sieglinde and later the Brünhilde. In the ballet premiere on June 20, 2009, Das Flammende Herz , based on music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and choreographed by Patrice Bart , she danced the Mary Shelley at the Berlin State Opera as partner of Vladimir Anatoljewitsch Malachow, who danced the part of Percy Shelley . She is a regular guest star at the Vienna State Opera. In May 2011 she made her debut with the American Ballet Theater in the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Kitri in Don Quichotte and in July 2011 in the role of Odette / Odile in Swan Lake . Guest performances have taken her to San Francisco, to the Zurich Ballet, La Scala in Milan, to St. Petersburg and several times to Japan. Since September 2012 she has been the first soloist of the American Ballet Theater (ABT) in New York.

In 2003 she danced in the music video Demo (Last Day) by Herbert Grönemeyer based on a choreography by Rudi Reschke. With this video, she became the "first ballet star of Web 2.0", thus known worldwide even among people who have little relation to classical ballet.

Polina Semionova was invited to La Scala in Milan , the American Ballet Theater , the Bavarian State Ballet , the Mikhailovsky Theater St. Petersburg, the Dresden Semperoper Ballet , the English National Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Ballet, and the Mariinsky Theater Ballet St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Ballet Moscow, Stuttgart Ballet and the Ballet of the Opera di Roma. In parallel to her stage career, Polina Semionova works at the State Ballet School Berlin , where she was appointed the youngest honorary professor in 2013.

In 2014 she was awarded what is currently the most important prize in the ballet world, the “Benois de la danse”. In April 2017 she was finally named a “Berlin Chamber Dancer” by the Berlin Senate . On May 17, 2018, Polina Semionowa and the Staatsballett Berlin hosted the "Polina & Friends" gala evening on the stage of the State Opera Unter den Linden with friends, dance partners, companions, audience favorites, young talents and big stars. The guests include: Friedemann Vogel, Sennu Laine , Ivan Zaytsev , Daniel Camargo , Maria Kochetkova , Carlo Di Lano , Svetlana Gileva , Ksenia Ovsyanick , Konstantin Lorenz , Danielle Muir , students of the State Ballet School Berlin as well as Polina's brother Dmitry Semionov and hers Sister Ksenia Semionova at the piano.

Discography (selection)

  • 2009: Caravaggio
  • 2010: Swan Lake

Filmography

  • Polina Semionova: Prima ballerina between New York and Berlin. Documentary, Germany, 2014, 52:40 min., Script and director: Carsten Fiebeler, production: Kordes & Kordes Film, arte , ZDF , first broadcast: August 31, 2014 on arte, by arte.
  • Passion . Feature film, Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain, 2012, 102 min., Written and directed by Brian De Palma , Natalie Carter, directed by Brian De Palma. Guest appearance in the ballet Afternoon of a Faun ( Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ) by Claude Debussy .

Awards

  • Gold medal at the international ballet competition in Moscow 2001
  • Junior Prize at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya / Japan 2002
  • First prize at the Vaganova competition in St. Petersburg in 2002
  • Daphne Prize of the TheaterGemeinde Berlin 2005
  • German dance award »ZUKUNFT« , category dance - female (2005)
  • German Critics' Prize (2005)
  • Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) (2007)
  • "Dancer of the Year" in the critics' poll of Ballet Dance (2007)
  • Foundation Heinz Spoerli (2008)
  • "Berlin Chamber Dancer" (2017)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ staatsballett-berlin.de , accessed on October 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ accessed on May 14, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Nadine Bös: She dances with her head ; on: FAZ.NET of March 14, 2011 , accessed on March 14, 2011
  4. ↑ Polina Semionova To Guest With ABT For 2011 Met Season , accessed October 13, 2011
  5. ↑ Short biography on the ABT website , accessed on March 25, 2013
  6. ↑ Official video for the demo (last day) with Polina Semionowa, retrieved from youtube.com
  7. ↑ accessed on May 14, 2018
  8. ↑ accessed on May 14, 2018
  9. ^ Polina Semionova: Prima ballerina between New York and Berlin . Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ Matthias Nöther: Polina Semionova is now a “Berlin Chamber Dancer” . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Semionova, Polina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Семионова, Полина Александровна (Russian); Semionova, Polina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION russian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow