Yulia Stepanova

Biography

Born in Orenburg. She graduated from Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Lyudmila Sofronova’s class, in 2009, and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year. 

Among the leads danced with the Mariinsky Theatre: 
Myrtha (Giselle) 
Gamzatti (La Bayadere) 
Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty) 
Odette/Odile (Swan Lake) 
Street Dancer, The Queen of Dryads (Don Quixote) 
the title part (Firebird, choreography by M. Fokine) 
Helena (Midsummer night dream, choreography by G. Balanchine) 
Aegina (Spartaucus, choreography by L. Yakobson) 
the title part (Sylvia, choreography by F. Ashton) 
Fate (Carmen Suite, choreography by A. Alonso) 
parts in Le Parc (by A. Preljocaj), The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (by W. Forsythe)/ Infra (by W. McGregor) etc. 

In 2014-15, she danced with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre where she performed Myrtha and Gamzatti. 

In 2015-16 season, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. Her coach at the Bolshoi is Lyudmila Semenyaka.

FOR THE BOLSHOI THEATRE 

2015 
Couple in Green (Russian Seasons by L. Desyatnikov, choreography by A. Ratmansky) 
Hungarian Bride (Swan Lake by P.Tchaikovsky, Y. Grigorovich’s second version) 

2016 
1st variation in Grand Pas, Queen of the Dryads, Street Dancer, 2nd variation in Grand Pas (Don Quixote by L. Minkus, A. Fadeyechev’s second production) 
The leading couple (Frank Bridge Variations to music by B. Britten, choreography by by H. van Manen) 
Bela (A Hero of Our Time by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov) Myrtha (Giselle by A. Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, production by V. Vasiliev) 
Nikia (La Bayadere by L. Minkus, choreography by M. Petipa, Yuri Grigorovich production)

Biography

Born in Orenburg. She graduated from Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg, Lyudmila Sofronova’s class, in 2009, and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year. 

Among the leads danced with the Mariinsky Theatre: 
Myrtha (Giselle) 
Gamzatti (La Bayadere) 
Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty) 
Odette/Odile (Swan Lake) 
Street Dancer, The Queen of Dryads (Don Quixote) 
the title part (Firebird, choreography by M. Fokine) 
Helena (Midsummer night dream, choreography by G. Balanchine) 
Aegina (Spartaucus, choreography by L. Yakobson) 
the title part (Sylvia, choreography by F. Ashton) 
Fate (Carmen Suite, choreography by A. Alonso) 
parts in Le Parc (by A. Preljocaj), The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (by W. Forsythe)/ Infra (by W. McGregor) etc. 

In 2014-15, she danced with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre where she performed Myrtha and Gamzatti. 

In 2015-16 season, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. Her coach at the Bolshoi is Lyudmila Semenyaka.

FOR THE BOLSHOI THEATRE 

2015 
Couple in Green (Russian Seasons by L. Desyatnikov, choreography by A. Ratmansky) 
Hungarian Bride (Swan Lake by P.Tchaikovsky, Y. Grigorovich’s second version) 

2016 
1st variation in Grand Pas, Queen of the Dryads, Street Dancer, 2nd variation in Grand Pas (Don Quixote by L. Minkus, A. Fadeyechev’s second production) 
The leading couple (Frank Bridge Variations to music by B. Britten, choreography by by H. van Manen) 
Bela (A Hero of Our Time by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov) Myrtha (Giselle by A. Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, production by V. Vasiliev) 
Nikia (La Bayadere by L. Minkus, choreography by M. Petipa, Yuri Grigorovich production)