Svetlana Lunkina
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Svetlana Lunkina as Odette in Swan Lake, Bolshoi Theatre, 22 May 2011
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Светлана Александровна Лунькина July 29, 1979 Moscow, USSR (now Russia) |
| Education | Moscow State Academy of Choreography |
| Occupation | Ballerina |
| Employer | Bolshoi Theatre, National Ballet of Canada |
| Known for | Giselle, Swan Lake |
| Awards | Meritorious Artist of Russia (2008), Prix Benois de la Danse (2007) |
| Website | svetlanalunkina |
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Lunkina (Russian: Светлана Александровна Лунькина; born 29 July 1979) is a Russian ballerina who is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
Svetlana Lunkina was born in Moscow and attended the Moscow Choreographic Academy. Upon her graduation in 1997, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet. During her first season at the Bolshoi Theatre she was chosen to perform the title role in Giselle and thus, at the age of 18, became the youngest Giselle in the history of the Bolshoi.
Over her 15-year career with the company, Lunkina danced many leading roles in both classical and contemporary ballets. In 2001 she was a Triumph Youth Award recipient, and the following year, Alexander Grant set the role of Lise in Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée on her. Later she worked extensively with Roland Petit, who gave her the roles of Liza in La Dame de Pique and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris in their Bolshoi premieres. She also performed his La Rose Malade, which Petit updated for Lunkina for the first time since Maya Plisetskaya danced it. She was promoted to the rank of principal dancer in 2005. Lunkina was awarded Brilliance of the 21st Century award the same year. In 2010 she was awarded with the prize Ballerina of the Decade, along with the three other well-known ballerinas: Diana Vishneva, Alina Cojocaru and Lucia Lacarra. During her career she also performed in such ballets as The Nutcracker, Don Quixote and The Sleeping Beauty, and appeared at such theatres as the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, and with the Paris Opera Ballet, among others.
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