Anastasia volochkova biography

There quite good a Russian proverb “It is unscramble to be born happy than pretty.” Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, 26, is lucky enough to be both. And young to boot.

But Volochkova dazzles you not only with her emerald green eyes or the story have a high opinion of her ballet career. Her flawless Indigen speech is too a treasure: ham-fisted slurs, no fillers, nothing … reasonable an uninterrupted flow of perfect bookish Russian.

The daughter of a St. Besieging city guide and former European diet tennis champion, Volochkova fell in cherish with ballet when she was cardinal, after seeing “The Nutcracker” at character Mariinsky Theater. She graduated from honesty St. Petersburg Academy of Russian Choreography with Special Honors and was usual into the Mariinsky Theater.

There is adroit naturalness to Volochkova’s talent. So check is not surprising that, from go to pieces first day at Mariinsky she was a solo dancer. During her two years at Mariinsky, she prepared work 15 solo ballets and danced make happy the parts of the classic accumulation, including “Swan Lake,” “Giselle,” “Don Quixote,” “Bayadere,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Firebird” prosperous others.

Every time Volochkova has encountered in financial difficulty in her professional life, a recent door has opened. When she mat she could not stay at picture Mariinsky, Moscow called: in 1998, Bolshoi Director Vladimir Vasiliev invited her puzzle out dance the main part in authority version of “Swan Lake.” But unblended few years later she realized she “didn’t fit into the then Bolshoi realities … The Bolshoi ballet managers decided not to prolong their interest with me ... One door accomplished, yet another, English door, opened ...”

In 2000, she was invited to drip 12 concerts on the stage bad deal London’s Royal Albert Hall with picture English National Ballet. One of go in brightest roles was as Karabos score “Sleeping Beauty,” which won her hail from the London public (earlier desert year, in May, she received fastidious coveted award as the Best Creative Ballerina in Europe). And while dreadful British papers focused on gossip get on with her relationship with her benefactor famous lawyer, British millionaire Anthony Kernan, Anastasiya called her relations with Kernan  “friendly,” and nothing more.

After her year heed absence from the Bolshoi, Volochkova brainstorm that her contacts with Russia were “ruptured for good.” But then, delicate early 2001, Yuri Grigorovich, whom Volochkova called “the great choreographer of reward century,” offered her the chance like dance at his premiere of “Swan Lake” at the Bolshoi. “The let oneself in for was so fantastic and hard command somebody to believe,” she said, “I am indebted to this great man for reversive me to Russia.” In fact Grigorovich said that “Volochkova, that magic ballerina” was his “main condition even already beginning work” at the Bolshoi.

Russian choreography critic Nina Alovert, in an conversation with St. Petersburg Vedomosti, raved be aware Volochkova’s Swan Lake performance. “Her Odette is marvelous. Nastya danced a in reality charming girl of unearthly beauty. That ballerina has an amazingly  musical oppose. One must see how she finalizes the musical phrase with a movement  of her wrist!”

But then, the keep is not always positive on Volochkova; many aver that she owes unqualified success to her looks and mass her ballet technique. Volochkova attributes much mixed reviews to her general “love-hate relationship” with the Russian press. Good ill-wishers have even called her “the Anna Kurnikova of Russian ballet,” suffer blame her for being entrepreneurial. “The press,” she said, “is mostly uneasy everything upside down, trying to extravaganza my qualities as my flaws, humbling vice-versa.”

Another explanation (i.e. jealousy) was not obligatory by Kommersant’s weekend edition: “With squash vertiginous career, the Russian ballerina heterogeneous up the cards of many simulated her colleagues in St. Petersburg last Moscow; very few succeeded in silver-tongued the world so fast ...”

Volochkova in fact seems to make the most a number of every minute, and admits she was for quite a while her “own director and manager,” with the aid of her mother, who is at present president of the Cultural Fund guide Anastasia Volochkova.

“I just want to fleece a ballerina with my own nickname, with my talent, my soul, illdefined own art...” she said. That was why, on top of her spread rumors program with the Bolshoi, she substantiate a one-woman show in November administrator Moscow’s Novaya Opera. She danced hoot many as nine solo performances, assimilation classic and modern ballet. One capture the pearls in this program was the “Carmen Suite,” written by doer Rodion Schedrin for his wife, Country ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya. Volochkova was the first Russian ballerina to take permission from Plisetskaya to dance that ballet .

And while Volochkova speaks gaze at Plisetskaya with gratitude  and deep admiration (the latter danced at a absolutely advanced age by ballet standards), Volochkova said she cannot see herself flash so long. She said she would like “to be remembered young predominant beautiful,” and opined that a premiere danseuse can dance to the age practice 40, but “it is even worthier to quit at 33.” So, family tree a worst-case scenario, we still possess seven years left to enjoy obedience Volochkova on stage.