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By the end of the season, however, she felt compelled to leave: Tsiskaridze had been let go, and her future at the Bolshoi seemed bleak. A major draw was Ekaterina Maximova, who had offered to be her coach at the Bolshoi, though she died just before the dancer joined. The events overshadowed her promising career, but two years on, she is finally hitting her stride away from Moscow.

With her feminine curves and smooth, creamy phrasing, Vorontsova doesn’t fit the tall, thin ballerina mold currently favored in Russia. He speaks some Georgian, and has tenuous connection to his home country. It was difficult, because there are so many people at the Bolshoi.”

Vorontsova in “The Sleeping Beauty.” Photo by Nikolai Krusser, Courtesy Vorontsova.

nikolai tsiskaridze biography of williams

“In the theater you’re given back your brain and told to go and become an artist. A few months after the attack, she accepted an invitation to join St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet as one of its youngest principals; she has since taken over the company’s repertoire with a new sense of maturity.

Born in Voronezh, Russia, Vorontsova got her start in rhythmic gymnastics.

In recent years though, he appears to have made an effort to rekindle a relationship with Georgia, travelling to Tbilisi a few times and writing a column for a Georgian online magazine.

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Vorontsova has also found the coaching arrangements a good fit: Instead of having one coach for each soloist, teachers rehearse the roles they know best.

And the smaller Mikhailovsky may be just the right company to nurture her.

“The repertoire was also much bigger, with more opportunities.”

Vorontsova joined as a coryphée, and worked mostly on her own with her new coach, Tsiskaridze.

In the aftermath of the acid attack, Vorontsova threw all her energies into dance.

Angelina Vorontsova: The Former Bolshoi Dancer is Getting a Fresh Start at the Mikhailovsky

This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe.

It may be a dancer’s dream to hit the headlines, but Angelina Vorontsova would rather forget the moment she did.

Although his father was a violin player and classical music was a regular part of his childhood, ballet was not a profession his parents would have liked him to pursue. When she burst on stage as revolutionary leader Jeanne, it was with a sense of vindication.

In the two seasons since, she has quietly made her debut in many leading roles, from Don Quixote to Swan Lake, and dipped successfully into the Mikhailovsky’s Nacho Duato repertoire.

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A compilation of responses to the questions about Nikolai, which came through Ask this week. “A lot of dancers also had mixed emotions about my presence,” she says.

A number of companies expressed interest, but the Mikhailovsky made her an offer she couldn’t refuse: The month she joined, in July 2013, she danced two principal roles in director Mikhail Messerer’s new Flames of Paris.

Since his early years he has been fond of drama theater and the opera.

In this clip, we re-live some of his most captivating stage performances around the world.

 

Do you have favourite dancer you would like us to write about? “I’m very happy here,” she says. “I’m focused on doing what I love, rehearsing and dancing.

He was born in Tbilisi, the capital of the then Soviet Republic of Georgia, on 31 December 1973.