Renata
Shakirova

Benois de la Danse nominee

Born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Tatiana Udalenkova) in 2015 While still a pupil at the Academy she appeared in performances at the Mariinsky Theatre and joined the Mariinsky Ballet
in 2015 Has been its Principal since 2024

Her repertoire includes: Giselle (Giselle), La Fille du Pharaon (Ramzé), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Princess Florine), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), La Bayadère (Nikia), Raymonda (Henrietta, Raymonda), Don Quixote (Kitri), Le
Corsaire (Gulnare), the Diane and Actéon Pas de Deux from the ballet La Esmeralda, Le Carnaval (Butterfly), Petrouchka (Balerina), The Nutcracker (Masha), Romeo and Julie (Juliet), The Stone Flower (Katerina, The Mistress of
the Copper Mountain), The Legend of Love (Shyrin), Cinderella (Cinderella), Carmen-Suite (Carmen), Shurale (Syuimbike), Spartacus (Aegina), Anyuta (Anyuta), The Nutcracker (Masha), The Bronze Horseman (Parasha), Paquita
(Paquita, Carducha); and also ballets by George Balanchine, Hans van Manen, Yuri Burlaka, Yuri Smekalov, Anton Pimonov, Maxim Petrov, Alexander Sergeev, Yuri Possokhov, Eldar
Aliev.

Winner (together with Kimin Kim) of Rossiya-Kultura TV's project Grand Ballet(2016).