Svetlana Zakharova, Documentary (2007-26 ') realization of Laurent Gentot. Born in Lutsk in Ukraine in 1979, Svetlana Zakharova was first studied dance at the School of Kiev. After earning a second prize in 1995 with her interpretation of pas de deux of the Blue Bird International Competition for Young Dancers in St. Petersburg (Price Vaganova), she immediately joined the Vaganova Academy (class of Yelena Yevteyeva) Kirov Ballet and the summer of 1996, just seventeen years. The following year she was named Star Dancer. During his first season with the Kirov Ballet and guided by the experience of Olga Moiseyeva she has incorporated in its directory The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Chopiniana works of Balanchine. Svetlana Zakharova has toured the world with the Kirov Ballet, notably the United Kingdom, the United States, in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan. Since 2001 she performed frequently as guest with many companies in the world (Rio, Tokyo, Munich, Paris, Rome). In December 2001 she danced with the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris on the role of Nikiya in La Bayadere, version of Rudolf Nureyev. She won the 1999 Golden Mask Award (best interpretation of a female role in ballet) for her performance in Balanchine's Serenade and 2000 for her portrayal of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. (And she was nominated in 1998 for Giselle and in 2002 for Now and Then.) Zakharova has also received the 1997 Special Prize of Hope Our Baltika in St. Petersburg in 2001 and the Special Prize awarded to persons born in St Petersburg its success in the ballet. Svetlana Zakharova has joined the Bolshoi Ballet during the summer of 2003. Often inaccessible, it is difficult to have access to their rehearsals, interviews or very intimate and touching as well as those drawn Gentot Lawrence. In addition, it has also been able to make shots in the two largest temples of the Russian Ballet, the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Kirov in St Petersburg. It is certainly the last footage shot in these mythical places, as the Kirov Ballet is closde for three years for renovation ...
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