Svetlana Zakharova is a ballerina who has gained popularity on the St. Petersburg stage. She was born on June 10 in 1979 in Lutsk, in the family of a military man and teacher of a children's creative studio.
short biography
Today Svetlana lives and works in Moscow, being a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater. Svetlana Zakharova is politically active as a deputy of the State Duma and a member of the United Russia faction. She takes an active part in the State Duma Committee on Culture. At the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi, Svetlana played the role of Natasha Rostova.
Career
From the age of six, the future celebrity was engaged in folk dances, and already at ten she entered the Kiev Choreographic School and connected her life with ballet. In many ways, the choice of this path was suggested to the girl by her mother, who wanted to see a ballerina in her daughter and was able to persuade her to go to school on time. Already a student of Zakharova, Svetlana successfully built a career as a ballerina, dancing Masha in The Nutcracker, the Dying Swan, and the Lady of the Triads in Don Quixote. And not only on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater ... The troupe of this theater accepted Svetlana into its ranks at 17, immediately after graduating from the academy, and literally a year later she already received the status of a ballerina. The experienced mentor Olga Moiseeva actively helped Svetlana in her creative development, thanks to which the young ballerina quickly began to receive many of the main roles of the theater. In 2003, Svetlana moved to Moscow and went to work at the Bolshoi Theater, where she received the status of prima ballerina. The debut on the new stage as a soloist took place in October 2003 in the ballet Giselle, although she had already danced this part three times at the Bolshoi Theater before the transition. Rapid career development was accompanied by Svetlana's participation in world-class ballet troupes as an invited celebrity. Svetlana Zakharova is a ballerina with unusually high achievements: she has dozens of brilliant parts in her repertoire, which she performs on the leading stages of the world.
Repertoire
Her best performances are often called the part of Medora from Corsair, Juliet in the tragedy of Shakespeare, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Kitri in Don Quixote. This is the most famous Russian ballerina in the world. Svetlana danced with Vladimir Malakhov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Jose Manuel Kareno and many other eminent ballet dancers.
Awards and titles
The first serious confirmation of Svetlana’s talent can be considered getting a second place in the International Competition among young dancers in 1995 in St. Petersburg. Successful participation in this contest helped the ballerina enter immediately the third year of the Vaganov Academy in St. Petersburg and study in the class of Elena Evteeva. In 1999, Svetlana in the Golden Mask Award became a laureate for best actress in a ballet. The current status of prima ballerina Zakharova Svetlana received in 2003 at the Bolshoi Theater, where her teacher is the famous Lyudmila Semenyaka, a graduate of the Vaganov Academy and a former ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater. In 2005, Svetlana received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and literally three years later - the People’s. In 2005, the ballerina was awarded the prize of the International Union of Choreography Figures for her performance in the ballet Midsummer Night's Dream - Benoit de la Dance. In 2008, Svetlana was recognized as the star of the La Scala theater in Milan.
Personal life of a ballerina
Svetlana Zakharova is married to violinist Vadim Repin, with whom she once had a New Year's concert. The ballerina says that she was simply amazed at Vadim’s talented performance and, after the performance, approached him for an autograph. The future husband of Zakharova Svetlana next time she met only a year later. Officially, the couple does not extend the date of the wedding, but it is reliably known that Svetlana and Vadim are married.
In 2011, a daughter Anna appeared in a star family. After giving birth, the ballerina again appeared on the scene after three months, but she never ceases to pay the necessary attention to the child, and even sometimes takes her daughter on tour. Svetlana often admits that the birth of a child has significantly changed her views on the world, transformed judgments and thoughts. Motherhood made it possible to perceive and feel even the movement in ballet in a new way. Svetlana Zakharova is a ballerina of the highest level, but there is no doubt that a dizzying career does not prevent her from being a wonderful wife and caring mother.
Style and character
The natural data of this woman is great for ballet. The model of the figure for the ballerina can be called exactly the one that Svetlana Zakharova has. Svetlana's height is 168 cm, weight - 48 kg. She does not like repetitions and patterns in clothes and always carefully selects such a costume that will be as unlike the costumes of ballerinas performing the part before her. By the sign of the zodiac Svetlana Gemini, therefore, she is characterized by some mood swings and a special energy. The star does not believe in signs and does not support superstition, always believing in his luck. The prima ballerina likes to relax mainly in the mountains, preferring them to hot sunny beaches.
Social and political activities
As mentioned above, Zakharova is a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation and a member of the committee on culture. The ballerina is quite responsive to this circumstance and cannot stand aside where support is needed - in 2011 she became the founder and president of the charity foundation, which aims at the following main tasks:
- preservation and development of the best traditions of choreography and culture;
- providing the opportunity to engage in ballet to a wide range of comers;
- support and promotion of the Russian ballet school;
- creating an enabling environment for the existence of a sufficient number of ballet studios, special schools for children in this area;
- maintaining professionalism in ballet;
- assistance to young dancers;
- social support and necessary rehabilitation of veterans of ballet art.
Svetlana Zakharova helped establish a special scholarship to several of the best students of the Saratov College of Arts, finding it extremely necessary, and now she is not going to stop there. In the near future, the woman plans to organize the first in Russia creative children's holiday - the ballet festival. The star openly admits that combining the activities of a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation with ballet is often very difficult, because to achieve success in one thing, extreme focus on the subject and the application of many efforts are necessary. The big problem of the current choreography, which impedes its development, Svetlana considers the almost complete lack of competent modern choreographers, which forces Russia to borrow too much from the West in ballet.
Personal celebrity website
The official website of Svetlana Zakharova is located at: svetlana-zakharova.com. A visit to the resource helps to get the most systematic and up-to-date information about the ballerina. The star’s site is valuable for fans, because you can always find the most reliable information on what Svetlana Zakharova does. A biography, a gallery of photographs, a list of roles in the repertoire - this is only part of the useful data on the site.