May 19, 2020
Julia Moon (Universal Ballet, 2000)
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Julia Moon (Universal Ballet, 2000)
'Actually the atmosphere in the Novosibirsk Ballet Theatre was nice but it was time to gain experience elsewhere. Also my mother encouraged me to go abroad. By chance one of my fellow students from school was from Korea. She told me about the Universal Ballet in Seoul which at that time was led by Oleg Vinogradov, the former artistic director of the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg...They had many good teachers from the Mariinsky Theatre and the Vaganova Academy. So I gave it a try, wrote to the general director, Julia H. Moon, was offered a contract and in 2003 joined the company as a corps dancer.' Asked why he didn’t also audition for other companies, Chudin said: 'I don’t know. I could have tried at the Bolshoi or at the Maryinsky, but I didn’t even try. Today I know but back then I had no idea how to get an audition. No one at school helped us, maybe because they wanted us to stay in Novosibirsk.'
Ilona Landgraf on Semyon Chudin (Bolshoi Ballet, 2016)