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Born in Moscow, Polina Semionova received her ballet education at the Bolshoi Ballet School and was engaged as Principal Dancer at the Ballet of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden immediately after graduating at the age of 17. From September 2012 she has been Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Principal Guest at the Mikhailovsky Theater, St Petersburg and at the Bavarian State Ballet Munich.
Polina Semionova dances almost all major parts of classical ballet: Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Nikia (La Bayadère), Marie (The Nutcracker), Princess Aurora (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, the title roles in Vladimir Malakhov’s Cinderella, Roland Petit’s Carmen or Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia. Her neoclassical repertoire includes Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, George Balanchine’s BalletImperial, Diamonds, Apollon musagète (Terpsichore), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, Theme and Variations and
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Polina Semionova Biography
Notable: Born 1984; Staatsballett Berlin
Polina Semionova was born in Moscow in 1984. She studied at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. She graduated in 2002 and joined the Berlin Staatsoper Ballet as a principal when she was only 18 years old. She showed her outstanding talent by winning several international ballet competition awards. She has toured in Japan partnering Vladimir Malakhov. In Germany she is also known as the ballerina dancing in Herbert Grönemeyer’s music video “Demo (Letzter Tag)”.
Repertoire includes:
- Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (with ENB)
- Nikiya in La Bayadere
- Marie in Nutcracker
- Swan Lake Pas de trois
- Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
- Title role in Malakhov’s Cinderella
- Solo role in Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial
- Roles in modern works by Uwe Scholz and Christian Spuck
Awards:
- Gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition 2001
- First Prize at the Vaganova-Prix Ballet Competition in St Petersburg 2002
- Junior Prize at the Nagoya (Japan) International Ballet Competition 2002
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