Anna Nikulina Explained

Anna Nikulina
Birth Name:Anna Nikulina
Birth Date:23 March 1985
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation:Ballet dancer
Education:Moscow State Academy of Choreography
Years Active:2002 to present
Employer:Bolshoi Ballet
Awards:People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2024)
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018)

Anna Nikulina (Russian: link=no|Анна Никулина; born 23 March 1985) is a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, Russia.[1] [2] Her first lead role was Odette-Odile in Swan Lake in 2004 at the age of 19. She has toured both internationally and within Russia. Her répétiteur (rehearsal coach) as of 2021 is, a former Bolshoi principal. In previous years her répétiteurs have been the important Russian dancers Ekaterina Maximova,, and Ludmila Semenyaka. She graduated in 2002 with honors from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography.

She has worked with Russian choreographer Yury Grigorovich in performance of his productions. In late 2021 when Grigorovich received an artistic award but could not travel due to pandemic restrictions, Nikulina accepted the award on his behalf.[3]

Tours

She has appeared in lead roles with the Bolshoi on tour in New York City (2014), Washington DC, Los Angeles, Sydney Australia, Hong Kong, and London. As visiting artist she has led shows with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in Rome (2018),[1] and tours of Greece[4] and Israel.[5]

In Russia, where the Bolshoi and the Ministry of Culture support the touring of soloists to major cities within the Federation, she has appeared with the ballet companies of Kazan (2011), Samara (2014), Ufa (2015), Chelyabinsk (2011, 2015), Saratov (2016), and Novosibirsk (2019).[1] [6] [7]

Alluding to the various endings of Swan Lake, she remarked in an interview that, “You never know what to expect from the Swan. In Moscow they kill me, in Kazan I am happy with the prince, but here, in Chelyabinsk, I am left alone on the lake."[8]

Roles

(Year of first performance)

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Nikulina (biography, in English). The Bolshoi Ballet Theater. en. 15 December 2021.
  2. Web site: Promotion in the Bolshoi Ballet. Bolshoi Theater. en. 25 February 2022.
  3. Web site: Anna Nikulina: Everyone Feels Grigorovich's Amazing Energy At Once. Theater Star. ru. 25 February 2022.
  4. Web site: Bolshoi Mariinsky Ballet Stars: Denis Rodkin and Friends. X-PAT Athens. en. 10 March 2022.
  5. Web site: LA BAYADERE BALLET IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. 3 November 2018. Tourist Israel. en. 10 March 2022.
  6. Web site: It is difficult to overestimate the importance of cultural exchange between regions in a country with such a territory as Russia. Rosconcert. ru. 19 February 2022. 28 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220228024107/https://rosconcert.ru/news/%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83/. dead.
  7. Web site: Soloists of the Bolshoi Theater will show the people of Chelyabinsk Giselle with a different character. Polit74. ru. 19 February 2022.
  8. Web site: The first soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet danced on the stage of the Chelyabinsk Opera. MediaZavod. ru. 25 February 2022.
  9. Web site: Artists and Staff - Anna Nikulina. The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. en. April 4, 2024.
  10. Web site: Awards for Honored Artist of Russia. Russian Academy of Arts. ru. 19 February 2022.
  11. Web site: Ceremony of awarding state and departmental awards of the Ministry of Culture of Russia. Ministry of Culture of Russia. ru. 19 February 2022. 27 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220227204958/https://culture.gov.ru/press/news/tseremoniya_nagrazhdeniya_gosudarstvennymi_i_vedomstvennymi_nagradami_minkultury_rossii_v_bolshom_te1/. dead.
  12. Web site: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 3, 2024, Number 233. ru. April 4, 2024.