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Anna Ol | |
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Born | Krasnoyarsk, Russia | 24 June 1985
Citizenship | Russia, The Netherlands |
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Occupation | Ballet dancer |
Years active | 1991–present |
Career | |
Current group | Het Nationale Ballet |
Former groups |
Anna Ol ( born 24 June 1985) is a Russian ballet dancer. [1] Principal dancer of Het Nationale Ballet (Amsterdam). [1] [2]
Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in a family of engineer and housewife, Anna started her dance career at 6 years old in a little ballet school in Siberia. At the age of 10 [1] [3] started her professional ballet education as a ballerina at Krasnoyarsk ballet college. [2] After the graduation she joined the Siberian State Ballet in Krasnoyarsk as a soloist, [1] and in 2 years was promoted to the rank of prima ballerina. After winning two gold medals at ballet competitions (2008, 2010) [4] she joined Ballet of Tatarstan (Kazan) [1] as a principal guest dancer, then Mikhailovsky Theatre (2011) in Saint-Petersburg [1] as a guest dancer and 2012 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in Moscow as a principal dancer. [5] [1]
Anna joined the Dutch National Ballet [1] [5] in Amsterdam in 2015 and has since appeared as a guest ballerina across Europe, Russia, North America, South America and Asia. Anna has been considered as the best dancer of the year 2018 by Dance Europe magazine, [1] which has also awarded her the Critics’ Choice for best performance on multiple occasions.
She’s been the recipient of Russia’s prestigious “Ballet magazine” Award (as a Rising Star) [4] and a prize at Dance Open St Petersburg (The miss virtuosity). [6]
Throughout all ballet career Anna has been working with many choreographers. A few works were created specifically for her by David Dawson, Remy Worthmeyer and Juliano Nunes.
At 2021 Anna became a mother of daughter. Besides being a ballerina and mother, Anna has participated in projects related to ballet and art. She has created different designs and ballet costumes for the clothing brand “La Principale dancewear” and helped to establish and promote the brand.
Anna is a certified ballet teacher (Moscow, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS, 2018). During the pandemic she organized several training sessions to aid ballet dancers around the world in maintaining their motivation and shape.
In 2020, Anna was invited as a Ballet Master in the “Dancemasterclass” [7] project which creates Master Classes with the most famous dancers of our days. During her pregnancy, she was also filmed as part of a “Motherhood” documentary about pregnant ballerinas [8] by the same company.
Classical: Svetlana Mikheeva, Vera Surovceva( Vaganova academy)
Pas de deux: Alexey Pavlenko
Character: Natalia Michailova
Modern: Ekaterina Shaybina
Acting: Lidiya Ridkous
Repertoire (theatre):
Yukari Saito, Director of Tokyo Ballet,
Olga Evreinoff, Guest Teacher of Royal Ballet,
Yannic Boquin, Guest Teacher of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre,
Natalya Makarova ,
John Neumeier,
Lyudmila Shipulina (Teacher of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre),
Carl Burnett , Patricia Ruanne,Julie Lincoln from McMillan’s trust,
Elke Scheppers, Urtzi Arabanburu( Kilian foundation),
Ben Huys,
Patricia Neary , Larissa Lezhnina, Guillaume Graffine,
William Forsythe
Graduation performance
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