Diana Vishneva On the Edge at London Coliseum

Published: 20 February 2015
Reporter: Vera Liber

Diana Vishneva in Carolyn Carlson's Woman in a Room Credit: Gene Schiavone

Ardani Artists present the UK première of Diana Vishneva: On the Edge at the London Coliseum for just three performances: 14, 16 and 18 April 2015.

The evening will consist of two works commissioned specifically for Vishneva, star of the Mariinsky Ballet and American Ballet Theatre: Jean-Christophe Maillot’s (Ballets de Monte-Carlo director choreographer for whom he has created more than thirty ballets) pas de trois, Switch, and Carolyn Carlson’s solo work, Woman in a Room.

Inspired by the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Woman in a Room follows one woman’s journey in life, filled with joys, bitterness and contemplation. The music is by Italian post-minimalist composer and cellist Giovanni Sollima with a finale piece by René Aubry.

Studying dance since the age of six, Diana Vishneva entered the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet at age eleven, graduating in 1995.

In 1994, Vishneva won the Gold Medal and the Grand Prix at the International Young Ballet Dancers’ Competition in Lausanne, a feat never repeated by any other competitor.

In 1995, while still a student at the Academy of Russian Ballet, she became a trainee at the Mariinsky Theatre and performed the title role in Cinderella, as well as the roles of Kitri in Don Quixote and Masha in The Nutcracker.

Ever since, she has performed lead roles in the international ballet repertoire including works by Petipa, Fokine, Balanchine, Ashton, MacMillan, Béjart, Petit and Ratmansky. In 2000 Vishneva made her debut at the Royal Opera House as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Her international career as a guest soloist began in 2001 performing with the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Manon and at the Teatro alla Scala in The Sleeping Beauty. In 2002, she made her debut at the Berliner Staatsballett (Giselle and La Bayadère). The same year witnessed her Opéra de Paris debut in Don Quixote.

Since 2005, she has been a Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre (ABT), dancing in Giselle, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Manon, Sylvia and The Dream among other works.

Ardani Artists, founded in 1990 by Sergei and Gaiane Danilian, in association with Segerstrom Center for the Arts, commissioned and produced the first Kings of the Dance, Tour de Force I and II, Reflections, which starred seven of the world’s top prima ballerinas, and Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion, which showcased the celebrated ballerina in several works.

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