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RYZHKINA Marianna Ryzhkina, Honored Artist of Russia, is a principal dancer with the Bolshoi in Moscow. Marianna joined the Bolshoi Theatre ballet troupe in 1989 upon graduating from the Moscow Academic Choreography College (Elena Ryabinkina’s class). She got her education at the Ballet Staging Faculty of Moscow State Choreography Institute. At the Bolshoi Theatre she worked with the remarkable choreographer-rehearser, People’s Artist of the USSR Raisa Stepanovna Struchkova, now she works under the guidance of another Credited Artist of the USSR Ekaterina Maksimova. With the Bolshoi Theatre troupe Marianna has been on tours of America, Japan, England, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Greece, the Bermuda Islands etc. Marianna is the winner of the International Serg Lifar Competition of Ballet Artists in Kiev, of the International competition of ballet artists in Osaka (Japan), in 1998 she took part in the International J. Gershvin Festival in Perelada (Spain), the laureate of Etoiles internationales de la Danse (Paris, 2002). She also participated in the mounting of ballet "Antigona“ (S. Bobrov’s choreography) during the International Arts Festival in Meride (Spain, 1997). Marianna was invited to and participated as a guest dancer in several Gala concerts and performances with Metropolitan Classical Ballet, where she has performed one of her latest premiere ballets “Carmen-Suite“ the choreography by Alonso in M. Plisetskaya’s reduction, and “Fading of a Rose“. Marianna is the mother of two charming sons eleven and five years old. |
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