Elena Evseeva

Elena Evseeva

Elena Evseeva in 2012
Born (1982-12-13) 13 December 1982
Izhevsk, Russia
Occupation Ballerina
Website elena-evseeva.com
Current group Mariinsky Theatre

Elena Evseeva (Russian: Елена Евсeева) (born December 13, 1982, Izhevsk) is a Russian ballerina, soloist of the Mikhailovsky (2001—2008) and the Mariinsky (since 2008) theaters. Honored Artist of the Republic of Udmurtia.

Elena Evseeva at the Mariinsky Theatre, 2012
Elena Evseeva and Kimin Kim at the Mariinsky Theatre, 2012

Biography

Elena Evseeva was born in Izhevsk; her father is an economist and mother is a master of sports in artistic gymnastics. During her childhood she moved to Perm, where she joined the Perm Ballet School. At the age of 14, a teacher from the Ballet theater of Boris Eifman noticed Elena at the International Ballet Competition held in Moscow and advised her parents to transfer her to the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. That’s how Elena came to study ballet in St. Petersburg. In 2001 she graduated from the Academy in the class of Honored Art Worker Marina Vasilieva[1][2][3] and was taken to the ballet troupe of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. There she was a leading soloist from 2001 to 2008.[1] Since 2008, she is dancing in the Mariinsky Theatre on the position of the first soloist.[2] Evseeva works under the supervision of the teacher-tutor Lyubov Kunakova.[4]

In 2009, dancing in a duet with Konstantin Zverev at Seoul International Ballet Competition, Evseeva won the I Prize.[1][2]

In 2011, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Udmurt Republic.[2]

Repertoire

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Mariinsky Theatre

Also in the repertoire

References

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