• Prize-winner of the Riga Spring Choreographers Contest (2015, Riga, Silver Medal for the dance On the Wings of an Angel to the music by Johann Sebastian Bach)
Born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2011 (class of Professor Lyudmila Kovaleva).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet the same year.
Repertoire includes:
Raymonda (Saracen Dance); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Le Corsaire (Forban Dance); production by Pyotr Gusev after the composition and choreography of Marius Petipa,
Pétrouchka (Gypsies); choreography by Michel Fokine,
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Ghirei’s Second Wife, Polish Noblewomen); choreography by Rostislav Zakharov,
The Nutcracker (Trepak); choreography by Vasily Vainonen,
Carmen-Suite (Tobacco Factory Worker); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
The Magic Nut (Spanish Rats); choreography by Donvena Pandoursky,
The Nutcracker (Chinese Dance, Kitchen Maids); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Alexei Ratmansky's ballets Anna Karenina (Annushka), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Gypsy Dance),
Symphony in Three Movements (the Fate of Youth); choreography by Radu Poklitaru,
Sacre; choreography by Sasha Waltz,
Yaroslavna. The Eclipse (the Patrol); choreography by Vladimir Varnava.
Repertoire also includes:
Chess Move E2. Hardly; choreography by Ilya Zhivoi.
In April 2014 as part of the Mariinsky Theatre’s project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers Irina Tolchilshchikova staged the one-act ballet Mind Games to music by Max Richter.
In August 2015, she attended the NDT summer intensive course at the Netherlands Dance Theatre (The Hague, Netherlands) where she performed solo dances from the ballets by Sol León/ Paul Lightfoot and Crystal Pite.
With the Mariinsky company, she toured Germany, Japan, China, USA, France, UAE and England.
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