Iana Balova

SOLOIST

born in Ufa

BALLET EDUCATION

Bashkir State Choreographic Academy Rudolf Nureyev
Scuola di Ballo-Accademia del Teatro alla Scala

ENGAGEMENTS

2010 Staatsballett Berlin, demi-soloist /// since 2011 soloist

REPERTORY IN BERLIN

Jerome Robbins: »Fancy Free« and »The Concert«; Peter Schaufuss: »La Sylphide« (Effie); Giorgio Madia: »Alice's Wonderland« (Alice, Assistant of the wizard) and »OZ - The Wonderful Wizard« (Dorothy, the yellow cat); Patrice Bart: »Swan Lake« (four little swans, Italian princess, Tarantella, pas de trois), »The Nutcracker« (Marquises, Russian dance, Chinese), »The Flaming Heart« (Tarantella), »Giselle« (Solo Willi, Peasant pas de deux); Pierre Lacotte: »La Vivandière«; Vladimir Malakhov: »La Péri« (French Princess), »Sleeping Beauty« (red riding hood, friend), »La Bayadère« (Grand Pas), »Cinderella«, Yuri Burlaka/Vasily Medvedev: »La Esmeralda« (friend of Esmeralda) and »The Nutcracker« (Clara); Ray Barra: »Snow Queen« (Räubermutter); Kathlyn Pope's Märchenballett ab 4: »Dornröschen« (Prinzessin Aurora) and »SPACE CONTROL AREA For interest only!« (»Shut Up And Dance! Reloaded«; David Simic: »Feelings of X+1=3« (»Shut Up And Dance! Reloaded«); Jiří Kylián: »Symphonie in D« and »Petite Mort« (»Duato | Kylián | Naharin«); George Balanchine: »Serenade« and »Ballet Imperial«; Uwe Scholz: »Ein Lindentraum« and »Der Feuervogel«; Maurice Béjart: »Ring around the Ring«; Kenneth MacMillan: »Manon«; Frederick Ashton: »Sylvia«; Boris Eifman: »Tchaikovsky« (the girl); Mauro Bigonzetti: »Caravaggio«; Tomaz Pandur/Ronald Savkovic: »Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs«; John Cranko: »Onegin«; Jodie Gates: »Courting the Invisible«; Itzik Galili: »The Sofa«; Angelin Preljocaj: »Snow White« (Snow White) and »The Nights«; Heinz Spoerli: »Peer Gynt« (Ingrid), William Forsythe: »Herman Schmerman« (»Duato | Forsythe | Goecke«); Alexei Ratmansky: »Namouna« (»Ratmansky | Welch«); Nacho Duato: »Sleeping Beauty« (Puss-in-boots), »Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness« and »The Nutcracker« (Snowflake/Waltz); Benjamin Millepied: »Daphnis et Chloé« (Lycéion, »Maillot | Millepied«); Vìctor Ullate: »Don Quixote« (Kitri's friends); William Forsythe: »The Second Detail« (»Balanchine | Forsythe | Siegal«); John Cranko: »Onegin« (Olga); Alexei Ratmansky: »La Bayadère« (Grand Pas d'action, Manu Pas de troi), Arshak Ghalumyan: »Mare Crisium«; David Dawson: »Voices« (»Dawson«); Marcia Haydée: »Sleeping Beauty« (Fee der Beredsamkeit, Emerald, Princess Florine); 

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Summer School: Royal Ballet School, London /// 1997 Ufa State Theatre »Nurejew« Gala | 2010 »Les danses de l’amour Gala« August Bournonville: »La Sylphide« (Pas de deux) | »Genzano Flower Festival« (Pas de deux) | 2011 Japan Tour, Gala »The Frescoes«