STARS GALA
artists
Former soloist of Mikhailovsky Theatre
Gold Medal at the Grand Prix of Ulanova in 2008
Anna was born in Siberia. She started to dance at 5 years old and graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Ballet School in Siberia.
Anna started her career with the Siberian State ballet (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) as a soloist. Later she became a guest-principal dancer with Mikhailovsky theatre (Saint-Petersburg) and Tatarstan state ballet (Kazan). Since 2012 Anna joined Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre ballet company as a principal dancer. During this period of dancing with Russian ballet companies her repertoire was very diverse.
At 2015 she joined Dutch National Ballet as a principal dancer. Since that moment Anna became an international guest-principal dancer .She worked with Teatro Colon (Argentina) for “La Bayadere” by Natalia Makarova, with Semperoper Dresden ballet for “Manon” by K.McMillan. Currently Anna is working with Staatsballet Berlin as a guest.
Anna’s repertoire is very diverse. During her carrier she dances principal roles in almost all well known classical ballets as “Nutcracker” , “Sleeping beauty”, “La Bayadere”, ”Gizelle”, “Copelia”, “La fille mal gardee”, “La Sylphide” , “Snow Maiden”, “Don Quihote”, ”Romeo and Juliette”, “Swan lake” and others. Her repertoire also includes main roles in lots of neoclassical ballets by such a famous choreographers as K.McMillan, J.Robbins, J.Kranko, G.Balanchine, A.Ratmansky, C.Wheeldon , Hans van Manen ,D.Dawson,Y.Grigorovich, Rudi van Danzig ,Ted Brandsen and others. In a different time her partners on stage were Sergei Polunin, Ivan Vasiliev, Leonid Sarafanov and others.
In a studio legendary Natalia Makarova, Guillaume Graffine, Alexey Ratmansky, Michael Messerer , Patricia Neary, Patricia Ruann , Karl Burnett, Olga Evreinoff, Yukari Saito,Yannick Boquen ,Larissa Lezhnina, Rachel Beaujean and many others helped her to improve her skills of dance. At 2008 and 2010 she won gold medals on International ballets competitions in Krasnoyarsk and Perm. She is a winner of «Dance Open 2018- miss virtuosity» prize in Sankt Petersburg.
Currently Anna is working successfully with Dutch National ballet as a principal dancer and participates lots of Ballet Galas around the world.Former soloist of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Her repertoire includes:
Dantzig/Schayk/Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – Odette/Odile
Eagling/Solymosi/Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker – Princess Maria
Petipa/Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty – Princess Aurora
Petipa/Minkus: Don Quixote – Kitri
Petipa/Adam: Giselle – Giselle
Petipa/Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – Odette/Odile
Ashton/Prokofiev: Cinderella – Cinderella
McMillan/Massenet: Manon – Manon
McMillan/Liszt: Mayerling – Princess Stephanie, Maria Vechera
Vainonen/Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker – Princess Maria
Burmeister/Tchaikovsky: Snow Maiden – Snow Maiden
Petipa/Minkus: La Bayadère – Nikiya
Van Manen/Satie: Trois Gnossiennes, Black cake
Ashton/Hérold: La fille mal gardée – Lisa
Lander/Riisager: Études
Cranko/Tchaikovsky: Onegin – Tatiana
Petipa/Deldevez/Minkus: Paquita – Paquita
Seregi/Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet – Juliet
Kylián/Mozart: Petite Mort
Awards include:
Bronze medal International ballet competition “Arabesque” (Perm), 2012
Silver medal “Moscow ballet competition”, 2013
Best ballerina of Hungary, 2016
Etoile, 2019-2020
The Hungarian gold cross, 2021
Participation in Etoile World Ballet Galas all over the World.
Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre
Principal Guest Artist at Mikhailovsky Theatre and Bayerische Staats Oper
Awards: Benois de la Danse, Dancer of the Year, Vaganova-Prix Moscow International Ballet Competition and many others
Her repertoire includes:
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.
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...
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 ..
Awards include:
- a gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2001,
- First Prize at the Vaganova-Prix Ballet Competition in St. Petersburg ,
- the Junior Prize at the Nagoya International Ballet Competition in 2002;
- Daphne Prize (2004);
- German Critics Choice Award (2005);
- Dancer of the Year (2007);
- Prize of Heinz Spoerli( 2007);
- Prize Benois de la Dance(2014);
- Kammertänzerin (2017);
- Dancer of the Year (2018).
In 2013 she became a professor of Staatliche Ballett Schule in Berlin, Germany.
Later on, James trained with the Goh Ballet Academy in Vancouver; a period of tough, completely Chinese-oriented training that he says formed him. The final year of James’s training was spent at The Royal Ballet School in London.
Partly due to his great admiration for the former star principal Sofiane Sylve, James decided to join Dutch National Ballet in 2007, where he was promoted to soloist in season 2012-2013. Since 2018, James has been a principal with Dutch National Ballet; his promotion came immediately after his performance of the role of Tristan in David Dawson’s Tristan + Isolde. James succeeded in reaching the finals of ballet competitions in Varna, Hong Kong and Beijing.
A freelance dancer
Dancer who performed with several ballet companies worldwide
Throughout her career Luisa María Arias has danced in companies such as:
- the National Dance Company;
- Netherlands Dance Theater;
- National Ballet of Nancy et la Lorraine;
- Opera National du Rhin.
She has worked with choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, W. Forsythe, Johan Inger, Ohad Naharin, Paul Lightfoot, Sol Leon, Cristal Pite, Marco Goecke, W. Vandekeibus, Hofesh Shechter, Alexander Ekman and many others.