Feb 29, 2020
Anastasia Nuykina’s debut at the Firebird. Mariinsky Theatre.
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Anastasia Nuykina’s debut at the Firebird. Mariinsky Theatre.
Anastasia Nuykina as Hippolyta in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Mariinsky Theatre. November 12, 2019.
La Personne have just published their interview with Anastasia Nuykina, 2018 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate who has recently been promoted to Second Soloist with the Mariinsky.
As always, I am happy to present by English translation of the interview. Read it here.
You got to dance the part of Polyhymnia in the Mariinsky’s “Apollo”, opposite Xander Parish, while you were still a student at the Academy. Was George Balanchine’s choreography challenging?
It was an enormous responsibility on so many levels: my partner was a Mariinsky principal dancer, we rehearsed under Yuri Valerievich Fateyev (Artistic Director of the Mariinsky ballet), and the ballet itself is legendary. To be honest, I did not know what awaited me, and all that was going through my head before the performance was: “What will happen?! What will happen?!”. Thankfully, my mom came to the opening night, and I could sense her affection coming from the auditorium.
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La Personne have just published their interview with Anastasia Nuykina, 2018 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate who has recently been promoted to Second Soloist with the Mariinsky.
As always, I am happy to present by English translation of the interview. Read it here.
What did you find most difficult about your first season with the company?
The first thing that comes to mind is my performance in the “Swan Lake” corps de ballet. I panicked so hard, and my eyes were rolling around in my head as I was trying to maintain the lines, but all the girls were supportive and tried to help out. The lyrical Maria from “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai” was one of my most challenging roles. Margarita Garaldovna would stay behind in the evenings, and together we would work on each gesture and nuance together, and when I was preparing “La Bayadere’s” Gamzatti, we were joined by Kimin, who shared his thoughts about the ballet.
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Anastasia Nuykina, Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate (class of Lyudmila Kovaleva, 2018), has been promoted to Second Soloist with the Mariinsky.
As reported earlier, Eleonora Sevenard and Alena Kovaleva have been promoted to soloist and leading soloist respectively at the Bolshoi.
Anastasia Nuykina’s debut in “Serenade” at the Mariinsky.
Maria Bulanova as Zarema and Anastasia Nuykina as Maria in the Mariinsky’s “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”.
A few more photos from Anastasia Nuykina’s debut as Princess Masha in the Mariinsky’s “The Nutcracker”.