Мaria
Alexandrova

Benois de la Danse nominee

Gamzatti (La Bayadère), Mekhmene Banu (The Legend of Love), Aegina (Spartacus), Medora (Le Corsaire), Myrtha (Giselle), Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Esmeralda (Notre-Dame de Paris), Carmen (Carmen Suite), The Pupil (The Lesson), Jeu de Cartes, In the Upper Room, Class Concert, Countess (La Dame de Pique), title roles in La Sylphide, Raymonda, Leah, Paquita.

Creations: Ramze (La Fille du Pharaon), The Classical Ballerina (The Bright Stream), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Misericordes, Jeanne (The Flames of Paris), title role (Esmeralda). Bolshoi creations: Soloist part III (Symphony in C), Tchaikovsky pas de deux, Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Miller's Wife (Le Tricorne), In the Upper Room, Swanilda (Coppelia). Repertory also includes: Black out, Four Kisses, Les Lacs d'amour (New Year premieres at Bolshoi, 1997). Guest performances: 2003 — World Ballet Festival in Japan, 2005 and 2006 — M. Jalil Tatar Academic Opera And Ballet Theatre (Kazan) — Swan Lake, 2007 — Mariinsky Theatre (La Bayadère), Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre (Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Laurencia), Festival of Russian culture in Japan (gala), Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (with Kings of the Dance). 2008 — the 8th Mariynsky International Festival of Ballet (Odette-Odile in Swan Lake); Gala concerts at the International Rudolf Nureyev Festival of Classical Ballet (Kazan) (the Classical pas de deux to music by Daniel Auber); the lst Siberian Festival of Ballet (Gamzatti in  La Bayadère and Princess Aurore in Sleeping Beauty); the Paris National Opera Ballet Company (title role of  Raymonda). 2009 — the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Company (Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and Kitri in Don Quixote); the Russian Seasons 21 Century project she created the role of Armide in Le Pavillon d'Armide. Appeared in gala-concerts in New York, Madrid, Athens, Prague, Japan. She is coached by Tatyana Golikova.

Awards: 1997 — 1st prize of Moscow International Ballet Competition. 1999 — The Soul of Dance prize of Ballet magazine. 2003 — National theatre award Golden Mask. Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation ( 2005). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009).

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