Anna Antropova

Biography

She was born in Moscow. In 1993 she graduated from the Moscow College of Choreography with distinction and in 1998 — also with distinction — the Department of “Choreographic arts” at the Bolshoi Ballet Institute with qualifications “ballet dancer” and “teacher-repetiteur”. (In 1995 the Сollege and the Institute were merged into the Moscow State Academy of Choreography). After graduation she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company.
Her teacher-repetiteur was Yuliana Malkhasyants.
In 2008 she graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography as manager.
In 2017, she began her career as repetiteur.

Repertoire

1995

Friends to Giselle (Giselle by A. Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa production by Y. Grigorovich)

1996

Courtesans (A. Khachaturian’s Spartacus, choreography by Y. Grigorovich)
Lorenzo’s wife (Don Quixote by L.Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in the version by Y. Grigorovich)

1997

Nancy (Herman Lovenskjold’s La Sylphide; choreography August Bournonville in a version by E. M. von Rosen)
Folk dance (Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev. Choreography by L. Lavrovsky)

1998

Mother Raddish, flowers (Cipollino. Music by Karen Khachaturyan. Genrikh Mayorov production)
Krakowiak and mazurka (Polish ball in Ivan Susanin by M. Glinka. choreography by R. Zakharov)
Bolero (Don Quixote)

1999

Three gypsies ((Anyuta to music of V. Gavrilin, choreography by V. Vassiliev)
Peasant dance (The Sleeping Beauty by P.Tchaikovsky, choreography by M. Petipa, Y. Grigorovich version)
Spanish dance (Raimonda. Music by A. Glazunov, choreography Marius Petipa in the version by Y.Grigorovich)
Gypsies (Rodion Shchedrin’s The Humpbacked Horse; production by N. Androsov)
Gypsies (Balda to music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Vladimir Vasiliev production)
Gypsy, Spanish dances, bolero ( Don Quixote, production by A. Fadeechev)

2000

Servants (Romeo and Juliet)
Hungarian dance (Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky, V, Vasiliev version)

2003

Friends to Zina, milkmaid (The Bright Stream. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Alexei Ratmansky production) — was among the creators of the ballet
Hungarian dance, mazur (Raimonda)
Dance with a drum (La Bayadere; choreography by Marius Petipa, in the version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Effi ( (La Sylphide)
Friends to Lise (La Fille mal gardee. Music by Louis Herold; choreography by Frederick Ashton)

2004

Countesses Cherry (Cipollino)
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller (The Bright Stream)

Basya (Leah to music by Leonard Bernstein. Alexei Ratmansky production, the second version) — creator of the role
Nurse (cook) (Ward # 6 to music by Arvo Part; Radu Poklitaru creation)

2005

Fermented Dough (The Bolt by D. Shostakovich, choreography by A.Ratmansky) — creator of the role
Jota (was among the creators of this ballet in Russia), Miller’s Wife (Manuel de Falla’s Le Tricorne. Choreography by Leonide Massine)
Flower girl (Gaite parisienne to music by Jacques Offenbach, in M. Rozental’s adaptation, choreography by L. Massine) — creator of the role in Russia
Russian doll (Nutcracker by by P. Tchaikovsky, production by Yuri Grigorovich)

2006

Blue Angel (Snow White by S. Prokofiev, choreography by Y. Posokhov, production by Y. Borisov) — creator of the role
Nepmen (The Golden Age by D. Shostakovich, production by Yuri Grigorovich)

2007

Soloist in the pirates dance/ danse des forbans (Le Corsaire. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka after Marius Petipa) — was among the creators of this ballet in Russia

2008

Effi (Herman Levenskiold’s La Sylphide; choreography by August Bournonville in a version by Johan Kobborg)
Auvergne dance (Boris Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen) — was among the creators of this ballet

2009

Mazur (participant of the opening night performance at the Bolshoi Theater), czardas (Coppelia. Choreography by M. Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti; revival and new choreographic version by Sergei Vikharev)
“Old Paris waltz” (participant of the opening night performance), Megaera (Cesare Pugni’s La Esmeralda; Choreography by M. Petipa, production and new choreographic version by Y. Burlaka, V. Medvedev)

2010

Nurse to Juliet (Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev. Production by Y. Grigorovich)
2^nd dancer (Petrushka, by I. Stravinsky choreography by M. Fokin, new choreographic version by S. Vikharev)

2011

Bérénice (Illusions perdues. Music by Leonid Desyatnikov, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky)
Old Madge, a village sorceress (La Sylphide in a version by Johan Kobborg)

In 1998 she took part in the Bolshoi Theatre’s New Year Premieres of works by young choreographers, dancing in The Ups and Downs of Love" to the music of W.A. Mozart staged by Jörg Mannes.

In 2005 she participated in the Choreographers of the Bolshoi project (2^nd Workshop of New Choreography), appearing in the piece Kiss of the wind by A. Rubtsov (choreography by A. Melanyin)