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Marianna Ryzhkina (Principal Dancer) 
Principal
Dancer
Biography
Born in Moscow. In 1989, on completing her training at
the Moscow College of Choreography (Yelena Ryabinkina's class), she joined the
Bolshoi Ballet Company. She graduated from the ballet master's faculty of the
Institute of Choreography (today college and institute have been amalgamated
into the Moscow State Academy of Choreography).
When she started at the
Bolshoi Theatre, she rehearsed under Nina Timofeyeva. Most of her roles she
prepared with Raisa Struchkova.
At the present time, her teacher-repetiteur
is Ekaterina Maximova.
Main
Repertoire
1989
Peasant Pas de
Deux (Giselle; Yuri Grigorovich's version)
1990
Spanish doll, Columbine
(The Nutcracker; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)
Two
Wilis (Giselle)
1993
Eleventh waltz
(Chopiniana; choreography by Mikahil Fokine)
1st variation in Raymonda's Dreams
scene (Raymonda; choreography by Marius Petipa in a version
by Yuri Grigorovich)
First odalisque (Le Corsaire;
choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa)
Shireen's
friends (Arif Melikhov's Legend of Love; choreography by Yuri
Grigorovich)
French doll (The
Nutcracker)
1994
Third odalisque, Pas
d'Esclave (Le Corsaire; choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev
after Marius Petipa in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Beatrice
(Tikhon Khrennikovэы Love for Love; choreography by Vукф
Boccadoro, after motifs of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About
Nothing)
Cupid (Don Quixote; choreography by
Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by Yuri Grigorovich, danced at
premiere)
1995
Little
Radish (Aram Khachaturian's Cipollino; choreography by Gennadi
Mayorov)
Marie (The Nutcracker)
Effi
(La Sylphide by Herman Lшvenskjold; choreography by August
Bournonville in a version by E.M. von Rosen)
Shireen
(Legend of Love)
1996
Friend to Juliet
(Romeo and Juliet; choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky)
Friends
to the Prince (Swan Lake; choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov in a version by Yuri
Grigorovich)
Katarina (The Taming of the Shrew to
music by Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Domenico Scarlatti; choreography by John
Cranko) - creator of role at Bolshoi Theatre
2nd variation in Shades scene
(La Bayadere; choreography by Marius Petipa in a version by Yuri
Grigorovich)
Maids of Honour (Swan Lake in a version
by Vladimir Vasiliev) - among the creators of the ballet in this
version
1997
Waltz (Polish
ball in the opera Ivan Susanin by Mikhail Glinka; choreography by
Rostislav Zakharov)
Fairy of Tenderness , Diamond Fairy
(The Sleeping Beauty; choreography by Marius Petipa in a version by Yuri
Grigorovich)
Kitri (Don Quixote; choreography by
Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by Yuri Grigorovich; she later
danced this role in a version of the ballet by Aleksei Fadeyechev)
1999
Princess Florine
(The Sleeping Beauty)
Title role (La
Sylphide)
Soloist Part 1 (Symphony in C to
music by Georges Bizet; choreography by George Balanchine)
2000
Guadalquivir (La
Fille du Pharaon by Cesare Pugni, in a production by Pierre Lacotte after
Marius Petipa)
2001
Title role
(Giselle in versions by Yuri Grigorovich and Vladimir
Vasiliev)
Friends to the Prince, Polish bride (Swan
Lake in second version by Yuri Grigorovich)
2002
Lise (La Fille mal
gardee by Louis Herold; choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton)
2004
Soloist Part 3
(Symphony in C)
Tarantella (to music by Louis Moreau
Gottschalk; choreography by George Balanchine)
2005
Helena (A Midsummer
Night's Dream to music by Felix Mendelssohn and Gyorgy Ligeti in a
production by John Neumeier)
Frivolity (Les Presages
to music by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky; choreography by Leonide Massine) -
creator of role in Russia
Glove Seller
(Gaоte Parisienne to music by Jacques Offenbach arranged by
Manuel Rosenthal)
2006
Phrygia
(Spartacus; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)
Tchaikovsky Pas
de Deux (choreography by George Balanchine)
2007
Soloist (In the
Upper Room by Phillip Glass; choreography by Twyla Tharp) - she was
among the creators of this ballet at the Bolshoi
Theatre
Gulnare (Le Corsaire; choreography
by Marius Petipa; production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri
Burlaka)
Class Concert (to music by different
composers; choreography by Asaf Messerer)
In 2001, she appeared at the
Bolshoi Theatre in La Sylphide with Royal Ballet ( London) premier Johan
Kobborg; and in 2004, she appeared in Don Quixote with the then ABT
premier Julio Bocca.
In 2005, she took part in the Choreographers of the
Bolshoi project (2nd Workshop of New Choreography),
mounting the number Capriccios to the music of Max Bruch's First Violin
Concerto, she was also among its dancers.
Tours
At many venues (in particular in
Finland and Sweden) she danced Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and Princess
Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.
In 1997, she participated in the
premiere of Antigone (choreography S. Bobrov), at the International
Festival of the Arts in the city of Merida (Spain)
In 1998, she took part in
the International George Gershwin Festival (Perelada, Spain).
In 1999, she
took part in the Bolshoi Theatre and Krasnoyarsk State Theatre of Opera and
Ballet co-project - dancing Anastasia at the premiиre at the Krasnoyarsk Theatre
of Ballet of V. Porotsky's Tsar-Fish (choreography S. Bobrov).
She has
often participated in Ballet Arlington productions (today the Metropolitan
Classical Ballet, Texas, USA), led by the former Bolshoi Theatre soloist
Alexander Vetrov. In 2001, with this Company, she first appeared as Carmen in
Carmen-suite by Georges Bizet-Rodion Shchedrin (choreographer Alberto
Alonso, partner Alexander Vetrov) and first danced La Rose malade (to
music by Mahler; choreography by Roland Petit). In 2004 - she danced Igor
Stravinsky's Firebird (choreography George Balanchine, partner Alexander
Vetrov ).
In 2003, she appeared as Odette-Odile (Swan Lake - Yuri
Grigorovich version) with the National Ballet of Korea (Seoul); she took part in
John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet traditional Nijinsky Gala (XXIX) dedicated to the
memory of Rudolf Nureyev; dancing the pas de deux from Giselle (partner -
Nikolai Tsiskaridze).
In 2004, she danced the part of Kitri in Don
Quixote (choreography - V. Derevyanko) with Dresden Ballet (Semper-oper
Ballet)
In 2006, in Mexico, she took part in the Baletissimo gala
performance, in which soloists from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, and also
the National Opera of the Ukraine participated.
In 2007, she appeared as
Gamzatti in La Bayadere (choreography Marius Petipa, production Alexander
Vetrov) with the Metropolitan Classical Ballet.
Awards
In 1994, she won 3rd
prize at the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition, in Kiev.
In 1995,
she won 2nd prize at the International Competition of ballet Dancers
at Osaka (Japan).
In 2002, she was made Merited Artist of the Russian
Federation. Her performance in the pas de deux from Le Corsaire
(partner - Alexander Vetrov) was voted by the Forth-Worth weekly into its
yearly Best of the West category of events.
In 2004, she won the
Golden Lyre competition (Personality of the year in the dance
nomination, Moscow).
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