Evelina Godunova

SOLOIST

born in Riga

EDUCATION

Choreography Ballet School Riga
Bolshoi Ballett Academy of Choreography
Royal Ballet School Covent Garden

COMPETITIONS | AWARDS

2006 - Finalist International Ballet Competiti Grasse, France
2009 - Best Dancer Award, Gold Medal Internazionale dlla Danza Spoleto, Italy
2010 - Participation USA International Ballet Competition
2011 - Finalistin International Ballet Competition Serge Lifar 
2012 - Silver Medal Seoul International Ballet Competition
2013 - Special prize Beijing International Ballet Competition
2017 - Gold Medal and special prize Moscow International Ballet Competition

ENGAGEMENTS

since 2018 Staatsballett Berlin

REPERTORY IN BERLIN

Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev: »The Nutcracker« (Clara); Patrice Bart: »Swan Lake« (Odette/Odile); First and second variations Pas de Trois), »Giselle« (Giselle, Peasant Pas de Deux, Willi Solo); Mariinsky: »Don Quixote« (Kitri, Flower Girl, Kitri's friend), »Le Corsaire« (Gulnara, Flower girl), Raimonda (Raimondas Freundin); John Cranko: »Onegin« (Olga), »Romeo and Juliet«; Alexei Ratmansky: »La Bayadère« (Gamzatti, 1. Shadow, 2. Variation), »Bright Stream«; William Forsythe: »The Second Detail«; Nacho Duato: »Duende«, »Sleeping Beauty« (Aurora, Blue Bird Pas de Deux);  Ohad Naharin: »Minus 7«; Alla Sigalova: »Otello« (Emilia); Adrienne Dellas: »Shim Chung« (Pas de Trois); August Bournoville: »La Sylphide«; George Balanchine: »Jewels« (»Rubies«), »Theme and Variations«; Boris Eifman: »Anna Karenina«; H. Spoerli, Y. Vamush: »Midsummer Night's Dream«, George Balanchine: »Jewels« (»Rubies« Pas de deux), Heinz Spoerli: »Ein Sommernachtstraum« (excerpt), Anton Dolin: »Pas de Quatre« (after Jules Perrot); Víctor Ullate: »Don Quixote« (Kitri); Marcia Haydée: »Sleeping Beauty« (Princess Florine, Fee der Klugheit, Ruby); 

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Participation in Etoile World Ballet Galas all over the World: Italy, USA, Greece, Finland, Schweden, England, France, Spain, Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Iceland

Collaborations with ballet artists: Uliana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, David Makhateli, Polina Semionova, Iana Salenko, Alina Cojokaru, Ekaterina Khrisanova, Semen Chudin, Sergey Palunin, Maria Aleksandrova, Marianela Nunez, Daniil Simkin, Johan Kobborg, Young Gyu Choi, Lucia Lacarra, Alessandra Ferri amongst others