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Viktoria Tereshkina

Viktoria Valerievna Tereshkina (Russian: Викто́рия Вале́рьевна Терёшкина; born 31 May 1983) is a Russian ballet dancer, who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. People's Artist of Russia (2018). Laureate of the highest theater award of St. Petersburg "Golden Soffit" (2005, 2006), and Laureate of the IX International Ballet Competition "Arabesque" (Perm, 2006).

Viktoria Tereshkina
Tereshkina receives the Golden Mask award, 2017
Born (1983-05-31) May 31, 1983 (age 41)
Krasnoyarsk, USSR
Occupationballet dancer
Career
Current groupMariinsky Ballet

Early life

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Tereshkina was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia where her father was a gymnastics teacher. From the age of four she was trained in artistic gymnastics in which she performed increasingly well. However, when she reached the age of 10, her parents decided her prospects for an extended career would be better in ballet. As a result, she was sent to the ballet school in Krasnoyarsk. When she was 16, she took part in a ballet festival in Saint Petersburg. She was noticed by Igor Belsky who recommended she should join the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet where he was artistic director. After training for five years in Krasnoyarsk, she therefore spent a further three years in Saint Petersburg in the class of Marina Vassilieva.[1]

Tereshkina is married to Artem Shpilevsky (former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet) and they have one daughter named Milada born in 2013.[2]

Career

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Following her graduation in 2001, Tereshkina immediately joined the Mariinsky Ballet where she became a soloist in 2005 and a principal in 2008.[3][4] She debuted as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake in 2002; it was her first principal role.[5]

Tereshkina has performed in Mariinsky's extensive repertoire of classical and modern ballet. Particularly notable are her Gamzatti and Nikya in La Bayadère, Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Queen Mekhemene Banu in A Legend of Love, and Terpsichore in Apollo.[6] Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Sarah Crompton referred to her as a "rising talent", describing her as a "filigree beauty" with "fiendish fouettés".[7]

She created the role of Parasha in Yuri Smekalov's production of The Bronze Horseman (2016),[8] Paquita in Smekalov's revival of the ballet of the same name (2017), and The Mistress of Copper Mountain in the Mariinsky revival of Yury Grigorovich's The Stone Flower in 2016.

In 2010, Tereshkina danced Aurora in Konstantin Sergeyev's version of the Sleeping Beauty when it was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.[9] She has toured with the Mariinsky to the United States (California, Washington D.C., and New York City) and throughout Europe and Asia.

In 2014, Tereshkina danced Nikiya in American Ballet Theatre's production of La Bayadère.

Repertoire

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Viktoria has danced ballets choreographed by Marius Petipa, Yury Grigorovich, Alexei Ratmansky, Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, etc.[3]

Marius Petipa

Yuri Grigorovich

  • A Legend of Love (Queen Mekhemene Banu)
  • The Stone Flower (Mistress of Copper Mountain)

Michel Fokine

Alexei Ratmansky

George Balanchine

Frederick Ashton

William Forsythe

Yuri Smekalov

  • Paquita (Paquita); production by Yuri Smekalov
  • The Bronze Horseman (Parasha); choreography by Yuri Smekalov
  • Bolero Factory (The Soul)

Hans van Manen

Other choreographers

Awards

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The awards received by Viktoria Tereshkina include:[3]

  • 2005: Golden Sofit: Best Female Role in Ballet (Approximate Sonata)
  • 2006: Golden Sofit: Best Female Role in Ballet (Queen of the Sea in Ondine)
  • 2006: Rising Star award from Ballet magazine
  • 2008: Honoured Artist of Russia
  • 2010: Ms Virtuosa award at the International Ballet Festival
  • 2014: Golden Sofit: Best Female Role in Ballet (Sylvia)
  • 2017: Golden Mask for "Best Female Role in Ballet (Violin Concerto No. 2, choreography by Anton Pimonov)
  • 2018: People's Artist of Russia[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ B. Jarrasse (7 August 2009). "Le Mariinsky en tournée à Londres: 07 août 2009 : à la rencontre de Viktoria Tereshkina" (in French). Dansomanie. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  2. ^ Monahan, Mark (18 July 2017). "Ballerina Viktoria Tereshkina on how motherhood helped her career: 'I tell younger dancers: please have babies!'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Viktoria Tereshkina". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Viktoria Tereshkina, Guest Artist". American Ballet Theatre. p. 12b.
  5. ^ Wiegand, Chris (6 August 2009). "Pas de deux: The Mariinsky Ballet's Swan Lake". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Kirov Female dancers". Ballet links. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  7. ^ Sarah Crompton (10 August 2009). "Swan Lake by the Mariinsky Ballet, Covent Garden - review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Yuri Smekalov". www.mariinsky.ru. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Mariinsky Ballet". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  10. ^ Latukhina, Kuira (29 March 2018). Путин присвоил звания народных артистов известным балеринам. Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  11. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 26.03.2018 № 118 "О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации"
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