Anna Polikarpova
Anna is Senior Principal Dancer for Hamburg Ballet.
Born
10.6.70 in Tomsk. Russian
Education
Vaganova Academy, St. Petersburg
Main Teacher
Ninel Kurgapkina
Engagements
Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater in 1988, Soloist in 1989.
The Hamburg Ballet since 1992 as Soloist, Principal in 1994
Creations
In Hamburg
Penelope in Odyssey
The Pas de deux Pavane and Carmen
Ophelia in Hamlet (1997 production)
Pas de deux Sheherazade II
(Easter Concert 1998, Munich)
Romola Nijinsky in Nijinsky
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina in The Seagull
Anna in Préludes CV
Herzeloyde in Parzival – Episodes and Echo
The Mother in Christmas Oratorio
Gold Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (Mats Ek)
and solos in
Secrets from “Trilogy M.R.”
Bernstein Dances
Night Sketches from “Images from Bartók”
Messiah
Pavane
Carmen
Nocturnes from “Songs of the Night”
Du und Du, Waltz (New Year’s Concert 2006, Vienna)
1909: Final
Meinungslose Weiden (Mats Ek)
Repertory
In St. Petersburg
Mariya in The Fontein of Bakhchisaray
Mascha in The Nutcracker
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake
Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty
Myrtha in Giselle
Katerina in The Stone Flower
and solos in
Chopiniana (Michel Fokine)
Apollo (George Balanchine)
The Leaves are Fading and Jardins aux lilas
(Antony Tudor)
The little Humbacked Horse (Marius Petipa)
The Dying Swan (Michail Fokine)
Petrushka (Oleg Vinogradov)
The Nutcracker (Vassili Vainonen)
The Dying Swan(Leonid Jacobson)
Paquita (Marius Petipa)
Le Corsaire (Marius Petipa)
La Bayadère (Marius Petipa)
Pas de quatre (Leonid Jacobson)
In Hamburg
Louise, Mrs. Stahlbaum and “La Fille du Pharaon” in
The Nutcracker
Odette, Princess Natalia and the Queen Mother in Illusions – like “Swan Lake”
Cinderella, Cinderella’s Mother, Cinderella’s Stepmother, a Stepsister and The Princess from another country in A Cinderella Story
Primavera in Othello
Ondine in Ondine
Marguerite Gautier in Lady of the Camellias
Juliet and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty
Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Diana in Sylvia
Olivia in VIVALDI or What You Will
Giselle and Myrtha in Giselle
Solveig in Peer Gynt
Celia in As You Like It
Aschenbach’s assistant, his mother and Tadzio’s mother in Death in Venice
The Memory in Seasons – The Colors of Time
The Young Girl in Le Spectre de la rose
Michail Fokine)
Gamzatti in La Bayadère
(Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Juliet (Pas de deux) in Romeo and Juliet
(Leonid M. Lavrovsky)
Lise in La Fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
and solos in
Requiem
The Fifth Symphony (Gustav Mahler)
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
hello
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Winterreise
Saint Matthew Passion
Vaslav
Le Sacre
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Mozart 338
Du und Du, Waltz
Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Diamonds (George Balanchine)
Videos
Katerina in Yuri Grigorovich’s The Stone Flower, Prelude in Fokine’s Les Sylphides and Marius Petipa’s Paquita
DVD
Odette in John Neumeier’s Illusions – like “Swan Lake”
Movie
Natasha in the motion picture Dog’s Feast (1991)
Guesting
Moscow, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Toronto, Washington, Paris, Munich, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Thessaloniki, London, Los Angeles (Hollywood – Arsenio Hall Show 1992), St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Montreal, San Diego, San Francisco, Mexico-City, New York, Beijing and at the Charity Gala “Event Prominent 2007″ in Hamburg.
She danced the role of Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina in Die Möwe with the ballet of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow.
Awards
3rd Prize at the Vaganova Competition and Special Prize from the Diaghilev Foundation.
Silver Medal at the Maja ’94 Competition.
Nominated for “Le Benois de la Danse” in 1996, for her performance of Marguerite in Lady of the Camellias and Penelope in Odyssey.
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1998




