Maria Kochetkova (Dancer)
Born in Moscow, Maria Kochetkova trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School for eight
years before dancing with The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet in
London. She joined the San Francisco Ballet as a Principal Dancer in 2007. Her
classical repertoire includes the title role in Giselle, Aurora
in The Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote, Juliet
in Romeo & Juliet, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Clara
and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the title role
in Alice in Wonderland. She has also performed in George
Balanchine’s Coppelia (as
Swanilda), Divertimento No. 15, Jewels
(Emeralds and Rubies),
Serenade and Theme and Variations, Symphony in
C (2nd movement), William Forsythe’s in the middle, somewhat
elevated and Artifact Suite, Kenneth MacMillan's Winter
Dreams, Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations, Wayne
McGregor's Chroma (opening night for US premiere) and ballets by David
Dawson, Derek Deane, Jorma Elo, Mark Morris, Yuri Possokhov, Alexei Ratmansky,
Jerome Robbins, Helgi Tomasson, Christopher Wheeldon and Hans Van Manen.
Kochetkova has created principal roles in Yuri Possokhov’s Diving into
the Lilacs, Raymonda Pas de Deux and Classical Symphony,
Helgi Tomasson’s On a Theme of Paganini and Trio, and
Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Number
9.
She performs as a guest artist with the Bolshoi and Stanislavsky Theaters in
Moscow, the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Tokyo Ballet in Japan
including performances as Kitri in Don Quixote for the opening
night of the 2009 NBS World Ballet Festival in Tokyo and with the
Bolshoi's Reflections project (2011) at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts
in Orange County and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco
Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and
won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of
Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.
Kochetkova’s prizes and awards include the Isadora Duncan Award for the role
of Giselle and medals at the International Ballet Competitions in
Seoul (Gold, 2005), Rome (Gold, 2005), Riety (Gold, 2005), Luxembourg (Gold,
2003), Varna (Silver and the Press Jury Prize, 2002), Moscow (Bronze, 2001). She
is also a winner of the Prix de Lausanne (2002).
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