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Ballet Stars of Moscow
Video
Clips from The Nutcracker performed in the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose California, December 2016:
Snow scene shot from the wings
Close up of snow flake dance from wings
An extract from Romeo and Juliet performed in the Petronas concert hall in Kuala Lumpur, January 2016:
Ballet Stars of Moscow - Romeo and Juliet
Reviews
Click on the links below for press coverage of the Ballet Stars of Moscow's sold out return engagement with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, January 7 - 17, 2016:
Principle Dancers
Natalya Kungurtseva
Born in 1975 and graduated in 1994 from the Ballet School in Ufa with the highest awards. She then joined the Moscow National Ballet and, in spite of her youth, has already danced many leading roles, including Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty and Chopiniana, Kitri in Don Quixote, Spanish Bride in Swan Lake and many others. She is a diploma medal recipient of the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya Japan and a diploma winner at the competition Arabesk in Russia. Also, performed as a guest star with various Russian ballet companies.
Denis Dmitriev Graduated from the Saratov Ballet School and joined the Stanislavsky Ballet company in 2007.
Parts include: Prince Siegfried (“Swan Lake” by V. Burmeister), Prince Nutcracker (“Nutcracker” by V. Vainonen), Albrecht (“Giselle”), Paris (“Romeo and Juliet” by V. Vasiliev), Don Quixote (“Don Quixote”), Suitor (“The Taming of the Shrew” by D. Bryantsev), Pas de Deux (“La Sylphide” by P. Lacotte), Hungarian Officer (“Mayerling” by K. MacMillan), soloist (“Illusive Ball” by D. Bryantsev, “Por Vos Muero” by Nacho Duato, “Petite mort” by J. Kylian) etc.Took part in the international tours of the Stanislavsky Ballet Company.
Awards: I Prize of International Ballet Competition in Spoleto (2010); Diploma and Special Prize winner of the International Ballet Competition in Astana (2009).
An extract from Romeo and Juliet performed in the Petronas concert hall in Kuala Lumpur, January 2016:
Staff
Mikhail Bessmertnov - Artistic Director
Born in Moscow in 1973 and was a student of Bolshoi Ballet Moscow Academy since 1983. Repertoire includes solo and leading roles in ballets "Coppelia", " La Fille Mal Gardee" and "Paquita". Participated in professional tours on the USA, France, Belgium and Japan. Upon graduation of school in 1991, he joined the Bolshoi Ballet .
Has had solo roles in "Nutcracker", "Romeo And Juliet ", "Corsair", "Valpurgius Night ", "Golden Age", etc. Also, together with troupe " Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet " went on tour on the USA, Australia, Singapore, Gong Kong, England where he danced pa de deax from "Don Quixote", "Raimonda", "Coppelia" and "Corsair". In 1996, passed to the State Academic theatre of Classical ballet where he executed solo and leading roles in ballets " Don Quixote ", "Swan Lake ", "Gisele", "Cinderella", "Nutcracker", " Romeo and the Juliet ", "Firebird", "Sacred Spring ", and toured the “Grigorovich Ballet.” Member of the Stars of the Ballet Moscow in 1998, 2000, 2002 North Americans tours.
In 2001, became a member of the Russian National Ballet with all leading
roles in ballets "Cinderella", "Carmen ", "Swan Lake", "Gisele", "Don Quixote", "Paquita" and others. The company has a participated in ballet tours in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Republic of South Africa. Since 2005, Mikhail had been the production manager of the Ballet Stars of Moscow.
Ekaterina Karpova -
Artistic Coordinator
Ekaterina was born in 1984 . She graduated from the Saratov State choreographic school in 2002 . Between 2001-2013 she worked as a leading soloist of the ballet in the Saratov Academic Theater of the Opera and ballet and the Moscow ballet theatre La Classique. Her repertoire includes solo and leading roles in the ballets "Giselle", "Swan Lake" (Pas de Trois), "Don Quixote" (the Queen of the Dryads, Street dancer), "Cinderella" (Fairy), "Sleeping Beauty" (Lilac fairy, pas de Blue bird), "Nutcracker" (Pas de Deux , Russian dance , Oriental dance ), roles in the ballets the Merry Widow, "Coppelia", "Romeo and Juliet" and others. In 2013, she was invited to participate in performances with the Ballet Stars of Moscow, where she has successfully performed in productions of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. She also leads a series of ballet master classes in ballet schools of Malaysia.
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