Elizaveta
Kokoreva

Benois de la Danse nominee

She was born in Moscow into a ballet family. Graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (teacher Tatyana Galtseva) in 2019 and was accepted into the Bolshoi Ballet Company. Has been a ballerina since 2023.

Is a scholarship recipient of the Grishko Foundation (2011–2014). Winner of the All-Russian competition Young Talents of Russia (2016, 2018). Ist Prize Winner of the XIII International Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers in Moscow, received the International Federation of Ballet Competitions Best Duet Prize in 2017. Laureate of the Ist Prize (junior group) of the International Ballet Competition Grand Prix of Siberia (2018). Won the Ist Prize of the IV All-Russian Competition of Young Performers Russian Ballet (2019, Moscow).

Her repertoire includes: title roles in La Sylphide and Giselle, Marie, Chinese and Spanish dolls (The Nutcracker), Princess Florina and the Fairy of Frolic (Sleeping Beauty), Kitri (Don Quixote), Zarya and Svanilda (Coppelia), Nina Zarechnaya (The Seagull), Loss (The Winter's Tale), Phrygia (Spartacus), Shirin (The Legend of Love), Jeanne (The Flame of Paris), Aspiccia and Ramsay (Pharaoh's Daughter), as well as Chopiniana, Paquita, soloist III movements (Symphony in C Major), the leading couple in Rubies (Jewels), Artifact Suite, etc.

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