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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
You have to work as much as you can and working is very important. You can be a talented dancer but you have to work, you have to always make your body better. You can work on your body all the time.
Also you have to work on your mind because ballet dancers are not only dancers, its not just a sportsman it's an artist, a big artist you have to be very special so this is a work, it's a work for all your life. So be ready to work and get better.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
1. Tell us about your background and journey.
I’m from a ballet family. My parents – mother and dad – were ballet dancers. I spent all my childhood backstage at the theater. They were working at Mikhailovsky theatre before it was Mussorgsky Theatre.
I knew all the performances where my mother and dad were dancing so that made me think I could also be a ballet dancer and I decided to try. My parents also asked me to try. And then I was studying at Vaganova Ballet Academy.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
2. What is your daily routine like?
My day always starts with ballet class and then I have few rehearsals – one or few rehearslas. After I always try to prepare for my show, prepare my shoes, prepare my costumes and other things.
Sometimes I just give rest to myself. And sometimes on the day of my performance I have all day free trying to sleep and get ready, get warm to my show and prepare also and in the evening having a show.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
3. Which is your most memorable performance? Why?
I remember very well my first show at the Mariinsky Theatre. It was Romeo and Juliet. I was 18 years old, a very young dancer and of course I was very nervous and thinking a lot about my performance to be the best of the best that I can do in my 18 years old.
So I think I will remember this show for a long time. And I can't say that I remember all my shows but some shows are very special for me for example that was at Paris Opera it was at Metropolitan Ballet Theater. It was at Covent Garden Royal Ballet. All these theaters meant a lot for me and shows on stages of these theaters were very memorable.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
4. What is the most challenging part of being a ballet dancer?
The biggest challenge is to understand that a big part of your life belongs to this art. And you have to know that sometimes you must say no to some nice things, to rest, to having free time, to having some relationship because of your profession.
So you have to say no to a lot of wonderful things in your life, you only can live in the theater, live with your art. So it's difficult and also it takes a big part of your life. So it's the biggest challenge for me, for myself.
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| PC - Mariia Kulchytska |
5. What changes do you wish to have in your industry?
I don't know. I think it's very good to have some more tours and some more travelling around the world. Right now it's difficult because of the pandemic and we are sitting at one place.
But I prefer to travel more than now. And I hope some ballet dancers can have more money for the work they do. It's important because this is a difficult job and it has to be better paying.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
6. Which ballet dancer inspires you the most and why?
Uliana Lopatkina, Diana Vishneva, Aurélie Dupont are my favorite ballerina. And also I like and I’m always inspired by Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. All these dancers are great and they make me be better than I could have been.
7. What message would you give to aspiring ballet artists?
You have to work as much as you can and working is very important. You can be a talented dancer but you have to work, you have to always make your body better. You can work on your body all the time.
Also you have to work on your mind because ballet dancers are not only dancers, its not just a sportsman it's an artist, a big artist you have to be very special so this is a work, it's a work for all your life. So be ready to work and get better.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
8. Which is your favorite book and why?
I like classic literature. My favorite book is «Evgeniy Onegin» and all my inspiration I take from classics. I like Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy etc.
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| PC - Antonina Kirnos |
Honoured Artist of Russia, Soloist of Mariinsky theatre (from 2002), Prima ballerina of the Bolshoi theatre (from 2012), Winner of “Golden Mask” Award as well as of many other Russian and International Awards. In 2002 after Evgenia had graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet she was accepted into the ballet company of the Mariinsky theatre.
During her very first season the eighteen-year-old ballerina took part in the theatre’s tour to Paris and debuted as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” ballet – it was the first and so far the only time when that role was given to such a young artist.
In 2005 Evgenia won the gold medal of the Х Moscow International ballet competition under guidance of Grigorovich whereupon she got her first personal touring invitation that turned out to be the beginning of a very successful collaboration with many world famous theatres such as: La Scala in Italy, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Berlin State Opera, the Royal Opera House (“Covent Garden”) in London, Metropolitan Opera in the US, The Royal Danish Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Vienna State Opera etc.
In 2012 Evgenia Obraztsova became a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi theatre rehearsing with ballet Master-Repetiteur Nadezhda Gracheva. In 2005 Evgenia debuted as a movie actress – she performed the role of a ballerina and a fiancée of one of the characters in Cédric Klapisch's flim “Les poupées russes”. The following year she was filmed for a movie “Ballerina” and in 2019 a new film “Frenchman” where Evgenia performed the main female part was premiered at XXX Kinotavr Russian Film Festival.
Interviewed By - Serene Ingle
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