Ballett
Elena Karpuhina
First Soloist

Nationality

Belgisch

Semperoper Ballett member since

2015
2016 Coryphée, 2018 Second Solist, 2022 First Solist

Acting jobs

Bayerisches Staatsballett
Ballet Classique München

Education

University for Music and Theater Munich, Germany
Municipal Ballet School Danzig, Poland

Repertoire

Semperoper Ballett Repertoire
Titania, Peaseblossom, The Dream (F. Ashton)
Lilac Fairy, Princess Florine, The Sleeping Beauty; The Shades, La Bayadère; Don Quixote (A.S. Watkin after M. Petipa)
Four Little Swans, Russian Princess, Pas de Sept Princess, Swan Lake (A.S. Watkin after M. Petipa and L. Ivanov)
Marie, The Sugar Plum Fairy, The Nutcracker (A.S. Watkin and J. Beechey after M. Petipa)
Worker, Carmen; Peer Gynt (J. Inger)
Manon (K. MacMillan)
Demi Soloist, Theme and Variations; The Four Temperaments; Serenade (G. Balanchine)
Artifact Suite, Impressing the Czar (W. Forsythe)
The Nutcracker; Illusions – Like Swan Lake; Eleonora Bereda, Nijinsky (J. Neumeier)
In The Upper Room (T. Tharp)
Colossus (S. Lake)

Creations
A Swan Lake (J. Inger)

Further Repertoire
Olympia, The Lady of the Camellias (J. Neumeier)
Olga, Onegin (J. Cranko)

Further Creations
French Ballerina, Série Noire; Odile, Once Upon An Ever After (T. Kohler)

Miscellaneous

Awards
Demi-finalist Prix de Lausanne (2007)
Sylvia Co-Prize” for promising young dancers, Varna International Dance Competition (2006)
2nd Prize Eurovision Young Dancer’s Competition (2005)
3rd Prize International Ballet Competition in Brno (2003) 

 

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