Ulyana Lopatkina celebrates her birthday today. Happy birthday Ulyana!
Today Ulyana turns 40 and we want to celebrate her birthday by sharing a video of her performaning the Dying Swan during the X International Ballet Festival Mariinsky Gala in the Mariinsky Concert Hall back in 2010.
Happy Birthday Ulyana Lopatkina!
Ulyana Vyacheslavovna Lopatkina (born October 23, 1973, Kerch, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Prima ballerina at the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
She studied at the Vaganova Academy withNatalia Dudinskaya. Upon graduation Lopatkina joined the Kirov/Mariinsky Theatre Ballet in 1991, and was promoted to principal dancer in 1995.
For more about Ulyana go to wikipedia.org.
The international ballet festival is one of the most significant events in the ballet season, drawing ballet-lovers from all over the world to St Petersburg. The main [purpose] of the festival is to attract stars of world ballet to Russia’s cultural capital.
Regular participants in the festival include Mariinsky Theatre stars Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina,Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov.
Since it was established, the Mariinsky international ballet festival has seen performances by such internationally acclaimed stars as Vladimir Malakhov, Agnes Letestu, Aurelie Dupont,Mathieu Ganio (Opera National de Paris), Roberto Bolle, Maria Kowroski, Manuel Legris, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Paloma Herrera, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Zakharova at the theatre.
In line with tradition, each festival opens with a ballet premiere and it concludes with a gala concert featuring stars of international ballet.
To learn more about the Marrinsky Festival, visit their site.
Happy Birthday Ulyana Lopatkina!
You’re about to witness Ulyana’s exquisite technique: her arms truly look like swan wings and her bourrées are flawless; she literally floats across the floor!
Video courtesy of Ewaasia.
Happy Birthday Ulyana Lopatkina!
If you’d like to learn more about Ulyana and her role as a principal ballerina at the Mariinsky, please visit their site below.
http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/principals_dancers/baleriny/lopatkina/
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