Anna Nikulina

Leading Soloist

Born in Moscow. In 2002, she completed her training at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (teacher Elena Vatulya) with distinction and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. She rehearsed under the late Yekaterina Maximova. In 2004, at the age of 19, she danced Odette-Odile for the first time.
Today her teacher-repetiteur is Nina Semizorova.

She took part in the Bolshoi Theatre Studio of New Choreography project, dancing Aurora in Riccardo Drigo’s Rosary pas de quatre from the ballet The Awakening of Flora (choreography Marius Petipa, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka) and the Carpets pas de quatre from Cesar Pugni’s ballet The Humpbacked Horse (choreography Alexander Gorsky, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka; 2004), and likewise — with Denis Savin — she appeared in the number Acquisition to music by Sergei Rachmaninov, produced by Yuri Klevtsov (2006)

In 2007, she appeared in the ballet Old Ladies Falling Out to music by Leonid Desyatnikov (choreography by Alexei Ratmansky), which was shown first at the Territory Festival, and then under the auspices of the Studio of New Choreography project (workshop).

Born in Moscow. In 2002, she completed her training at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (teacher Elena Vatulya) with distinction and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. She rehearsed under the late Yekaterina Maximova. In 2004, at the age of 19, she danced Odette-Odile for the first time.
Today her teacher-repetiteur is Nina Semizorova.

She took part in the Bolshoi Theatre Studio of New Choreography project, dancing Aurora in Riccardo Drigo’s Rosary pas de quatre from the ballet The Awakening of Flora (choreography Marius Petipa, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka) and the Carpets pas de quatre from Cesar Pugni’s ballet The Humpbacked Horse (choreography Alexander Gorsky, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka; 2004), and likewise — with Denis Savin — she appeared in the number Acquisition to music by Sergei Rachmaninov, produced by Yuri Klevtsov (2006)

In 2007, she appeared in the ballet Old Ladies Falling Out to music by Leonid Desyatnikov (choreography by Alexei Ratmansky), which was shown first at the Territory Festival, and then under the auspices of the Studio of New Choreography project (workshop).

Repertory

2004
Sylph/four sylps (La Sylphide. Choreography by August Bournonville)
nd variation in The Shadows (La Bayadere. Yuri Grigorovich production)
part in the ballet Passacaille to music by Anton von Webern (Rolan Petit production)
Friend/friends to Giselle, Two Wilis (Giselle. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake, choreography by Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Fairy of Audacity (The Sleeping Beauty. Yuri Grigorovich production)
’Two pairs’ in Part 3 (Symphony in C)
Magnolia (Aram Khachaturian’s Cipollino; choreography by Gennadi Mayorov)

2005
Final Waltz and Apotheosis (Nutcracker. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Congo (La Fille du Pharaon. Production by Pierre Lacotte after Marius Petipa)
Friend/friends to Shireen (A Legend of Love. Music by Arif Melikov. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Swan/Three Swans (Swan Lake)
Henriette (Raymonda. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Temptation (Les Presages to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Leonide Massine)
2nd Variation in Grand Pas (Don Quixote. Alexei Fadeyechev production)
Spanish Doll (Nutcracker)

2006
3rd variation in The Shadows (La Bayadere. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Lyuska (The Golden Age. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Friend/friends to the Prince (Swan Lake. Yuri Grigorovich production)
The Queen of the Dryads (Don Quixote)
Fairy of Tenderness (The Sleeping Beauty) — debut on the Bolshoi Theatre tour in Novosibirsk
Soloist
(Jeu de cards. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Alexei Ratmansky production)
Marie (Nutcracker)

2007
Soloist (In the Upper Room. Music by Philip Glass, choreography by Twyla Tharp)
Pas de Trois des Odalisques (Le Corsaire. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka after Marius Petipa)
Soloist
(Class Concert. Music by Alexander Glazunov, Anatoly Lyadov, Anton Rubinstein, Dmitry Shostakovich, choreography by Asaf Messerer)
Summer
(Cinderella. Yuri Possokhov and Yuri Borisov production)

2008
Mime/mimes (Spartacus. Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)
Adeline
(Boris Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen)
Phrygia
(Spartacus) — debut on the Bolshoi Theatre tour in Hong Kong
Title role (Giselle. Vladimir Vasiliev production)
Couple in Claret Red
(Russian Seasons. Music by Leonid Desyatnikov, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky) — was among the creators of this ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre

2009
Fleur de Lys (Esmeralda by Cesare Pugni, choreography by Marius Petipa, staging and new choreographic version by Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev)

She took part in the Bolshoi Theatre Studio of New Choreography project (workshop), dancing Aurora in Riccardo Drigo’s Rosary pas de quatre from the ballet The Awakening of Flora (choreography Marius Petipa, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka) and the Carpets pas de quatre from Cesar Pugni’s ballet The Humpbacked Horse (choreography Alexander Gorsky, reconstruction Yuri Burlaka; 2004), and likewise — with Denis Savin — she appeared in the number Acquisition to music by Sergei Rachmaninov, produced by Yuri Klevtsov (2006).
In 2007, she appeared in the ballet Old Ladies Falling Out to music by Leonid Desyatnikov (choreography by Alexei Ratmansky), which was shown first at the Territory Festival, and then under the auspices of the Studio of New Choreography project (workshop).

Awards

In 2004, she was a recipient of a Triumph youth grant prize.

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