She graduated from Moscow Bolshoi Ballet Academy and joined the Russian State Ballet in 2002. Liudmila Konovalova was born in Moscow (Russia).
She has also been guest artist in many international companies: Royal Swedish Ballet Stockholm, Ballet of Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, The Kremlin Ballet Moscow, Ballet of Kazan, Compañía Nacional de Danza Madrid Since 2018 she is the Principal Dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin.ġ999 Winner of the “International Meeting of Ballet Academies”Ģ012 “Premio Positano”: best female newcomerĢ014 “Wilhelmsen Holding ASA Company Award for Opera and Ballet”Ģ014 Nomination “Benois de la Danse” as best female dancer From 2010 until 2018 she was Principal Dancer in the Norwegian National Ballet Oslo. In 2009 she danced with Víctor Ullate Ballet. From 2000 till 2010 she danced in the National Ballet of Cuba Havana, being Principal Dancer from 2005 on. She has worked in several international ballet companies.
Yolanda Correa was born in Cuba and studied in the Vocational School of Art Holguín and in the Cuban State Ballet School Havana. Young also frequently performs as a guest principal dancer with leading international companies.Ģ010, Boston International Competition, 1st.Ģ010, Ballet Competition (Varna, Bulgaria), 1st.Ģ007, Youth America Grand Prix (New York City, United States), 1st. On the first of January 2016, immediately after his debut as the prince in The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, he was promoted to principal. He then danced leading roles in Don Quixote and Cinderella, among others. In 2013, he was promoted no less than twice: first to coryphée and later in the year to soloist. He entered the Dutch National Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2011. Young danced with the Korean National Ballet and Universal Ballet Korea, both in Seoul. At the age of ten, he was admitted to the ballet course at the Sun Hwa Arts School in Korea, and in 2006 he continued his training at the Tanz Akademie in Zurich, Switzerland. “I wasn’t immediately enthusiastic, but after a few lessons I stopped thinking about it and just went”, he says. The South Korean dancer Young Gyu Choi started dancing at the age of eight on his mother’s initiative. In 2013 she became a professor of Staatliche Ballett Schule in Berlin, Germany. the Junior Prize at the Nagoya International Ballet Competition in 2002.First Prize at the Vaganova-Prix Ballet Competition in St.Ī gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2001, Semionova has also danced as a guest artist with La Scala, American Ballet Theatre, Bayerische State Opera, Mikhailovskiy Theatre, Semper Opera, English National Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Maryinsky Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Opera del Roma. She has also appeared in works by Nacho Duato, Mauro Bigonzetti, Patrice Bard, Renato Zanella, Uwe Scholz, Alexey Ratmanskij, Twyla Tharp, Anthony Tudor, Christian Spuck. Odette-Odile in Swan Lake Nikiya in La Bayadere Marie in The Nutcracker Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty Swanilda in Coppellia Kitri in Don Quixote Giselle, Myrta in Giselle Tatiana in John Cranko's Onegin Sieglinde and Brunhilde in Maurice Bejart's Ring um den Ring Manon in Manon Juliet in John Cranko's,Sir Kenneth McMillan's, Leonid Lavrovskij's, Nacho Duato's Romeo and Juliet Scheherazade Les Sylphides Carmen in Roland Petit'sCarmen Sylvia in Sir Frederick Ashton's Sylvia.Principal roles in Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, Apollo (Terpsichore), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Diamonds, Theme and Variations, Symphony in C William Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Herman Schmermann John Neuemeyer 's Nutcracker, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Lady of the Camellias, Kylian's Return to the Strange Land. In September 2012 joined American Ballet Theatre as a Principal Dancer.
At 17 years old, she joined the Berlin State Opera Ballet as a principal dancer. Polina Semionova was born in Moscow and studied at the Bolshoi Ballet School.