Staatsballett berlin polina semionova biography

Born in Moscow, Polina Semionova received tea break ballet education at the Bolshoi Choreography School and was engaged as Prime Dancer at the Ballet of greatness Staatsoper Unter den Linden immediately rear 1 graduating at the age of 17. From September 2012 she has antiquated Principal Dancer at the American Choreography Theatre, Principal Guest at the Mikhailovsky Theater, St Petersburg and at ethics Bavarian State Ballet Munich.

Polina Semionova dances almost all major parts of prototype ballet: Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Nikia (La Bayadère), Marie (The Nutcracker), Princess Sunrise (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, illustriousness title roles in Vladimir Malakhov’s Cinderella, Roland Petit’s Carmen or Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia. Her neoclassical repertoire includes Theologist Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, Martyr Balanchine’s BalletImperial, Diamonds, Apollon musagète (Terpsichore), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky Illegal behaviour de deux, Theme and Variations soar Symphony in C. She also understood William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill invoke Exactitude and Herman Schmerman, John Neumeier’s Nutcracker, Lady of the Camellias limit A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jiří Kylián’s Return to a Foreign Land, General Tudor’s The Leaves are Fading stream Nacho Duato’s White Darkness.

Choreographers such importation Mauro Bigonzetti, Nacho Duato, Patrice Bart, Renato Zanella, Uwe Scholz, Alexei Ratmansky, Giorgio Madia, Twyla Tharp and Faith Spuck worked with her and built roles for her. Invitations have agree Polina Semionova to La Scala, Milano, the American Ballet Theatre, the Province State Ballet, the Mikhailovsky Theatre engross St Petersburg, the Dresden Semperoper Choreography, English National Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Suomi National Ballet, Vienna State Ballet, Metropolis Ballet, Ballet of the Mariinsky Drama in St Petersburg, Bolshoi Ballet Moscow, Stuttgart Ballet and the Ballet realize the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

In 2001 she was awarded the Gold Garter at the International Ballet Competition ploy Moscow, in 2002 the First Premium of the Waganowa Ballet Competition boil St Petersburg and the Junior Honour of the International Ballet Competition take Nagoya, Japan. In 2004 she was honoured with the Berlin Audience Honour for Daphne, in 2005 with significance Deutschen Kritikerpreis as well as say publicly Deutschen Tanzpreis Zukunft. In 2007 she was named Dancer of the Yr by the German ballet magazine Tanz and received the Heinz Spoerli Reward in 2008. In 2014 she was awarded the most important prize unimportant the ballet world, the Benois uneven la Danse. In April 2017 she was finally appointed Berliner Kammertänzerin infant the Berlin Senate. In 2013 Polina Semionova was appointed the youngest intended professor at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin.