Maria Khoreva

Upcoming performances:

11 January 2025

The Nutcracker

Incredible energy and a capacity for work, coupled with versatile talent, intelligence and successes already attained allow one to believe in the great future of this "rising" or, more precisely, this already-risen star...
Olga Rozanova. Ballet Magazine. December, 2021, №2

...Her ballerina instruments are extreme: long, thin limbs, maximum flexibility and unshakable control throughout a lightweight physique.
Sarah L. Kaufman. The Washington Post. 10.04.2019

First soloist

• Prize-winner of at the Beijing International Ballet Competition for Dance Schools (Grand Prix – the Beijing Dance Academy prize, 2021)
• Recipient of the Spirit of Dance prize in the category “Rising Star” (Ballet magazine, 2020)
• Winner of Rossiya-Kultura TV's project Grand Ballet (2020)
• Winner of the Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award (2019)

Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Professor Lyudmila Kovaleva) and joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2018.

Repertoire includes:
Giselle (Giselle); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa,
La Fille du Pharaon (Aspicсia); choreography by Marius Petipa reconstructed by Toni Candeloro,
La Bayadère (Nikia); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile, Pas de trois); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Princess Florine); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Raymonda (Raymonda), choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Le Corsaire (Medora, Trio of Odalisques); production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography of Marius Petipa,
Don Quixote (Kitri, The Queen of the Dryads); choreography by Alexander Gorsky after motifs of the production by Marius Petipa,
Jewels (Diamantes), Apollo (Terpsichore), Serenade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pas de deux from Act II), Tchaikovsky Pas de deux; choreography by George Balanchine,
The Nutcracker (Masha); choreography by Vasily Vainonen,
The Legend of Love (Shirin); choreography by Yuri Grigorovich,
Seven Sonatas, Concerto DSCH,
Paquita (Paquita); choreography by Yuri Smekalov, reconstruction and staging of Marius Petipa's choreography (Act III Grand Pas) by Yuri Burlaka,
The Pioneer Suite; choreography by Alexander Sergeev.

Repertoire also includes
Concertino bianco; choreography by Dmitry Pimonov,
Closure; choreography by Juliano Nunes.