Yana Peneva


Upcoming performances:
6 October 2025
Second soloist

• Grand Prix Award at the Youth America Grand Prix (Tampa, USA; 2022, semi-finals)
• Prize-winner at the Universal Ballet Competition (USA, 2021; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the Youth International Ballet Competition (USA, 2021; 1st prize)

Born in the USA. Graduated from the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart (class of Galina Solovyova) in 2024 and joined the Stuttgart Ballet as a corps de ballet dancer. Six months later she was promoted to soloist. The artist performed the roles: Kitty in Anna Karenina by John Neumeier, Kitri’s Friend and the Queen of Dryads in Don Quixote staged by Maximiliano Guerra, as well as parts in The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde) by Kenneth MacMillan and in productions by Goyo Montero, Emanuele Babici, Carlos Strasser, Kinsun Chan, Noan Alves.

In 2025 she joined the Mariinsky Ballet.

Her repertoire includes:
Swan Lake (swans); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev.

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