Polina Semionova

Polina Semionowa (Russian Полина Семионова, scientific transliteration Polina Semionova; * September 13, 1984 in Moscow) is a Russian ballet dancer.

Semionowa grew up on the outskirts of Moscow. Her mother was an English teacher, her father biotechnologist, both without reference to ballet. You two year older brother Dmitri was discovered for the ice skating and she also took lessons. When he joined the ballet, they did. Polina Semionowa ended her ballet training with honors at the ballet school of the Bolshoi Theatre in 2002.

Curriculum vitae

Vladimir Malakhov Anatoljevich, artistic director and principal dancer with the National Ballet of Berlin, who established a new Company, dedicated Polina Semionowa first soloist when she was 18 years old. Since then she danced Odette / Odile in Swan Lake, the Nikya in La Bayadère, Cinderella, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, the Tatiana in Onegin, Manon and in ring around the ring first Sieglinde and later the Brunnhilde. In the ballet world premiere on 20 June 2009 The Flaming Heart, after the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and choreographed by Patrice Bart, she danced the Mary Shelley at the Staatsoper Berlin as a partner of Vladimir Anatoljevich Malakhov, who danced the part of Percy Shelley. She is a regular guest star of the Vienna State Opera. In May 2011, she was with Kitri in Don Quixote, and in July 2011 in the role of Odette / Odile in Swan Lake her debut with the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Guest performances have taken her to San Francisco, at the Zurich Ballet, La Scala, to St. Petersburg and several times to Japan. Since September 2012 she is first soloist member of the American Ballet Theatre ( ABT) in New York.

In 2003, she danced in the music video demo ( Last Day ) by Herbert Grönemeyer after a choreography by Rudi Reschke. With this video, she became "the first ballet star of Web 2.0 ", so also well known among people who have little regard for classical ballet.

Discography (selection)

• 2009: Caravaggio
• 2010: Swan

Awards

• Gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 2001
• Junior Prize at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya / Japan 2002
• First Prize at the Vaganova Competition in St. Petersburg in 2002
• Daphne price of the theater community in Berlin 2005
• German Dance Prize " FUTURE " category Dance - Female ( 2005)
• German Critics Prize (2005)
• Berlin Bear ( B.Z. Culture Prize ) (2007 )
• " Dancer of the Year " in the critics' poll of Ballet Dance ( 2007)
• Foundation Heinz Spoerli (2008)