Veronika Part (Dancer)
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1978, Veronika Part began her early training
in artistic gymnastics before entering the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988. Part
graduated in 1996 and joined the Kirov Ballet. She was promoted to soloist in
1998.
Part’s repertoire with the Kirov included Nikiya in La
Bayadиre, the Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote, Myrta, Moyna and
Zulma in Giselle, Raymonda and Henrietta in Raymonda, the Lilac
Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake. She
also danced roles in George Balanchine’s Apollo (Terpsichore),
Jewels (Emeralds and Diamonds), Symphony in C (second movement)
and Serenade, and in John Neumeier’s The Sounds of Empty Pages.
She was the winner of the BALTIKA Prize in 1999.
Part joined
American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in August 2002. Her roles with the Company
include Terpsichore in Apollo, Nikiya in La Bayadиre, Twig in
Cinderella, Prayer in Coppйlia, an Odalisque in Le
Corsaire, Mercedes and the Queen of the Driads in Don Quixote, Myrta
in Giselle, An Episode in His Past in Jardin aux Lilas, Manon in
Lady of the Camellias, leading roles in Ballet Imperial, The
Leaves Are Fading and Mozartiana, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow
Queen in Kevin McKenzie's The Nutcracker, Clara in Alexei Ratmansky's
The Nutcracker, Other Dances, the Chief Nursemaid in
Petrouchka, the Older Sister in Pillar of Fire, the Polovtsian
Princess in the Polovtsian Dances, Raymonda, Henrietta, the White Lady
and the Lead Spanish Dancer in Raymonda, Lady Capulet in Romeo and
Juliet, Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty,
Odette-Odile, the Polish Princess and a Big Swan in Swan Lake, the Sylph
in La Sylphide, the leading role in Les Sylphides and Symphonie
Concertane, Terpsichore in Sylvia and the second movement in
Symphony in C and a role in Overgrown Path. She created Natalia in
On the Dnieper and leading roles in The Brahms-Haydn Variations,
Kaleidoscope and Within You Without You: A Tribute to George
Harrison.
Part was promoted to Principal in May 2009.
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