Recipient of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Grand Prix (2009)
• Recipient of the audience award from Russia-Culture
TV’s project Grand Ballet (2012)
Born in Leningrad (St Petersburg). Graduated from
the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2011. From 2011–2014 she
was a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow
Music Theatre where her repertoire included lead roles
in the ballets Giselle (Giselle), Don Quixote (Queen
of the Dryads), The Nutcracker (Masha), Natalia Makarova's
production of La Bayadиre (Nikia), Pierre Lacotte’s staging
of La Sylphide (The Sylph) and Roland Petit’s production
of Coppйlia (Swanilda). From January to June 2014 she was
a principal dancer at the Mikhailovsky Theatre where she
performed lead roles in the ballets Giselle (Giselle),
La Bayadиre (Nikia), Le Corsaire (Medora) and
Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness. Joined the Mariinsky
Ballet in 2014.
Repertoire includes: Le Corsaire (Medora);
production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography by Marius
Petipa, Apollo (Terpsichore); choreography by George Balanchine.
Christina Shapran and Timur Askerov "Romeo and Juliet"
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Christina Shapran and Timur Askerov
"Romeo and Juliet"
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