Nadezhda Gracheva (Dancer)
Biography
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gracheva (born 21 December 1969) is a Russian ballerina and ballet teacher who has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet.
Born in Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan). Trained at the
Alma-Ata Ballet School. In 1986, having shown herself to good account at the
International Competition of Ballet Dancers in Varna (junior group), she was
given the opportunity of completing her training at the Moscow College of
Choreography (Sophia Golovkina's class). Having completed her training in 1988,
she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company where she immediately made her debut as
soloist.
She rehearsed the major part of her repertory with Galina Ulanova (she was
her last pupil). Today she rehearses with Marina
Kondratieva.
Main
Repertory
1988 Mistress of the
Dryads (Don Quixote; choreography by Alexander
Gorsky)
1989 Shadow of Princess Mlada
and Queen Cleopatra (opera-ballet Mlada by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov;
choreography by Andrei Petrov)
1990 Myrtha
(Giselle; Yuri Grigorovich production) Seventh Waltz and
Prelude (Chopiniana; choreography by Mikhail Fokine) Henrietta
(Raymonda; Yuri Grigorovich production) Mistress of the Copper
Mountain (Sergei Prokofiev's The Stone Flower; choreography by Yuri
Grigorovich)
1991 Nikia (La
Bayadere; Yuri Grigorovich production) - role creator Odette-Odile
(Swan Lake; choreography Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov
in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
1992 Medora
(Le Corsaire, choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius
Petipa) - role creator at Bolshoi Theatre
1993 Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty; Yuri
Grigorovich production) Title Role (Giselle)
1994 Medora (Le Corsaire; choreography by
Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa in a version by Yuri Grigorovich) -
role creator Title Role (Herman Lovenskjold's La Sylphide;
choreography August Bournonville in a version by E.M. von Rosen) - role
creator at Bolshoi Theatre
1995 Kitri (Don
Quixote; choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by
Yuri Grigorovich) Aegina (Spartacus; choreography by Yuri
Grigorovich) Mekhmene Banu (Arif Melikhov's Legend of Love;
choreography by Yuri Grigorovich) Juliet (Romeo and Juliet;
choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky)
1996 Jeanna
(Last Tango to music by Astor Piazzolla; choreography by Vyacheslav
Gordeyev) - role creator
1999 Soloist Part 1
(Symphony in C; choreography by George Balanchine) - role creator
at Bolshoi Theatre
2000 Aspiccia (Cesare
Pugni's La Fille du Pharaon; production by Pierre Lacotte after Marius
Petipa)
2002 Odette-Odile (Swan Lake
in a second version by Yuri Grigorovich)
2003 Title Role (Raymonda)
2004 Soloist Part 2 (Symphony in
C) Sylvia Pas de Deux (from the ballet of the same name to
music by Leo Delibes; choreography by George Balanchine) - role creator at
Bolshoi Theatre Title Role (Leah to music by Leonard Bernstein;
choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, second version) - role
creator
She participated in the Bolshoi Theatre New Year
Premieres for young choreographers (1997), dancing the solo part in Jorg
Mannes's Four Kisses to music by Johann Sebastian
Bach.
Tours
She was guest ballerina at Belgrade’s National Theatre where, from 1994-5,
she danced the lead roles in Don Quixote, Giselle (partner - Konstantin
Kostyukov, National Theatre Belgrade soloist) and Swan Lake (partner -
Andrei Uvarov). She was awarded with a For outstanding services to the
National Theatre medal.
Awards
In
1986, she won 2nd prize (junior group) at the International
Competition of Ballet Dancers, Varna. In 1988, she won 1st prize
and the Leningrad College of Choreography prize (junior group) at the All-Union
Competition of Ballet Dancers; she also won 2nd prize (junior group)
at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers, Varna. In 1992, for her
performance as Nikia she was awarded a Benois de la danse prize. In
1994, she was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian
Federation. In 1995, she won lst prize at the International Competition
of Ballet Dancers, Osaka (Japan). In 1996, she was awarded the title
People's Artist of the Russian Federation and won a State Prize of
Russia. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of Honor. In 2009, she won the
Russian Ballet journal Soul of Dance prize (in the Queen
of Dance nomination).
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