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Nika Tskhvitariia
Born (1995-12-18) 18 December 1995 (age 28)
Saint Petersburg
NationalityRussian
EducationBallet Dancer
OccupationBallet Dancer
Years active2015–present
TitleMariinsky Theatre; Samara Opera; Ballet Theatre Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre

Nika Tskhvitariia (Russian: Ника Цхвитария) is a Russian ballet dancer. She graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and began her career at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. She danced at the Mariinsky Theatre (2016-2018) and then became a prima ballerina at the Samara Opera and Ballet Theatre (2018-2019).

She has been a freelance artist since 2019 and is the founder of Freed Ballet. She is the principal dancer of Freedballet.

Biography

Early Life and Education

Nika was born into a large family where her mother was a housewife and artist, and her father was an entrepreneur. She began studying rhythmic gymnastics at an early age. In 2006, she entered the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet[1]. She graduated from the class of Professor Lyudmila Valentinovna Kovaleva.

Career

From 2013 to 2014, Nika was a scholarship holder of the Galina Ulanova Foundation. In 2014, she danced Princess Florine in the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" with the Mariinsky Theatre troupe. She also participated in the graduation concerts of the Vaganova Academy.

2014 - A Box of Variations.[1] Nika graduated from the Vaganova Academy in 2015.

That same year, her performance at the "Soul of Dance" gala concert at the Stanislavsky Theater caused a real sensation.[2]

In 2015-2016, she worked at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. She was noted by Yevgeny Malikov [3].

In 2016-2018, she worked at the Mariinsky Theatre. She danced solo and leading roles in the ballets:"The Nutcracker"[4]., "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Bakhchisarai Fountain"[5], and "Jewels".[6]; "Anna Karenina"[7]

In 2018, she danced in the ballet F 63.9 based on Marina Tsvetaeva's tragedy "Phaedra".[8]

In 2019, she began her career as a freelance artist. She danced at concerts in Greece, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, and Slovakia. She participated in international projects, such as a tour with the Royal Moscow Ballet and the gala concerts "Stars of the 21st Century Ballet". In Bogota, Colombia in 2020, she performed the dual role of Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake".

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Nika and her husband Vitally Amialishka in the Freedballet project

With her husband Vitally Amialishka and composer Jackson Mullane, she created a neoclassical ballet in Bali, where she has been living since March 2020.

Freed Ballet

She founded the company Freed Ballet in 2021 with her husband. This project combined the classical art of ballet with contemporary innovations, presenting unique interpretations of classical works and original ballets. Freed Ballet presented a series of successful performances, including unique interpretations of Swan Lake[2], The Nutcracker[3], and Don Quixote, as well as original works[4].[9]

Repertoire

2015-2016 artist of the dance in the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music:

  • Petite Mort. Sechs Tanzе. by choreography Jiří Kylián;
  • Don Quixote (plug-in variation, mistress of dryads), choreography

Chichinadze;

  • Coppelia ( friends of Swanilda), choreography by Roland Petit;
  • Anna Karenina (Princess Sorokina), choreography by Christian Spuck;

Rhapsody (six pairs), choreography by Frederick Ashton;

  • Swan Lake (bride, Brides of the Prince), choreography by Vladimir

Burmeister

  • Giselle (friend), choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa
  • La Bayadère (Grand pas), choreography by Natalia Makarova.

2016 -2018 artist of the dance in the Mariinsky Theatre (Ballet):

  • Giselle (Zulma, Mona); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and

Marius Petipa,

  • The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev
  • La Bayadère (Grand pas); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Vakhtang Chabukiani and Vladimir Ponomarev,
  • Le Réveil de Flore (Nymphs); choreography by Marius Petipa, reconstruction of the 1894 production, staged by Sergei Vikharev,
  • Swan Lake (Swans, Brides of the Prince); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
  • Raymonda (Clémence); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
  • Don Quixote (Street Dancer); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,

George Balanchine ballets:

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena),
  • Jewels (Emeralds),
  • Symphony in C (III. Allegro vivace, IV. Allegro vivace),
  • The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov,
  • Sylvia (Ceres); choreography by Frederick Ashton,
  • The Nutcracker (Masha, Waltz of the Snowflakes); choreography by Vasily Vainonen,
  • Carmen Suite (Fate); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
  • The Nutcracker (Queen of the Snowflakes); production by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov,
  • The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare, Sea Princess), *Cinderella (Dance Teacher), *Anna Karenina (Princess Betsy Tverskaya); choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

Since 2018 the leading ballerina of the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre:

  • ​Swan Lake - Odette, Odile, choreographic version by Yuri Burlaka.

Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater

  • Phaedra – codename f 69.3. , Phaedra, choreography by Alexey Kononov.

Alexandrinsky Theatre:

  • Swan Lake - Odette, Odile.
  • Le Corsaire - pa de deux Medora; Gulnare; production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography of Marius Petipa.
  • The Sleeping Beauty, pas de deux-Princess Aurora; la Fee des Lilas; choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev.
  • Chopiniana (Prelude); choreography by Michel Fokine.

Video

  1. Nika speaks about academy [5]
  2. Freedballet in Kuala Lumpur [6]

References

  1. ^ "A Box of Variations". Mikhailovsky theatre. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Nika Tskhvitariia in The Awakening of Flora, Pas de Quatre". Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Three Nights with Ashton". 10 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Debut as Masha". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Debut in "The Bakhchisarai Fountain"". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Debut in Jewels". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Debut as Princess Betsy in Rodion Shchedrin's ballet "Anna Karenina"". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Phaedra's Disease" and "Alla's Time". St. Petersburg Vedomosti. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  9. ^ "World-renowned talents brings a reimagined 'Nutcracker' and 'Swan Lake' to Malaysia". 2 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
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