| Yulia StepanovaDancer• Diploma-recipient at the Vaganova-Prix international competition (St Petersburg, 2006). Born in Orenburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2009 (class of Professor Lyudmila Safronova). Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year. Her repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Sylphs); choreography by Auguste Bournonville, La Bayadиre (Grand pas); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani, Swan Lake (Swans, Hungarian Dance, Mazurka); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev, Don Quixote (Mercedes, Street Dancer); choreography by Alexander Gorsky, Schйhйrazade (Odalisques); choreography by Michel Fokine, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Ghirei’s Second Wife); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov, Spartacus (Aegina, Egyptian Woman); choreography by Leonid Yakobson, Carmen-Suite (Fate); choreography by Alberto Alonso, The Legend of Love (Dancers); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, The Nutcracker (the Nutcracker’s Sisters, Queen of the Snowflakes, Waltz of the Flowers); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov, Anna Karenina (the Envoy’s Wife); choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Presentiment of Spring (Three Women); choreography by Yuri Smekalov. Has toured with the Mariinsky Theatre to Germany, the USA, France and South Korea | |