Elena Vostrotina was born in St Petersburg and trained at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St Petersburg and is now currently a Principal Dancer with Ballett Zürich. She began her career in 2003 at the Mariinsky Theatre and then in 2006 Elena joined the Semperoper Ballett Dresden where she became a Principal Dancer in 2011. Her awards include “Outstanding Performance by a Female Artist“ (Critics Choice) in The World According to Us, Dance Europe Magazine (2009); “Paradise Award“ for the Best Dramatic Actress in La Bayadere, Novosibirsk, Russia (2009); “Hope of Russia Award“ Vaganova Prix Ballet Competition (2002), Award for the World According to us (David Dawson). Her repertoire includes Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (M. Petipa, L. Ivanov, V. Burmeister), Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (A.S. Watkin after Petipa), Nikiya in La Bayadère (versions by Aaron S. Watkin after M. Petipa & Igor Zelensky after V. Chabukiani), Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker (Aaron S. Watkin/Jason Beechey after M. Petipa), Grand Pas Classique (Gzovsky), Firebird in The Firebird (Michel Fokine); Queen of The Dryads in Don Quixote (Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky), Myrtha in Giselle (Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot); Pas De Quatre (Anton Dolin); Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire (Marius Petipa), Apollo, Soloist in Diamonds, Soloist in Rubies, La Valse, The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations (George Balanchine), Odette/2 swans/The Butterfly/ Hungarian Dance in Illusions like Swan Lake (John Neumeier), Approximate Sonata, Steptext, In The Middle Somewhat Elevated, Enemy in the Figure, The Second Detail, Artifact Suite (William Forsythe), Symphony Nr.2 (Uve Scholz), Voluntaries (Glen Tetley), A Million Kisses to my Skin, Reverence, On The Nature Of Daylight (David Dawson), Bella Figura (Jiri Kylián), Intimate Distance, Le Souffle de l’Esprit, Unerreichbare Orte (Jiri Bubenicek), Le Noces (Stijn Celis), Minus 16 (Ohad Naharin). Elena has also participated in the following creations: Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Aaron S.Watkin after Petipa and Ivanov), Myrtha in Giselle, Das Verschwundene | The Disappeared, The World According To Us (David Dawson), No Thumb (Pascal Touzeau), Unintended Consequences (Jiri Bubenicek), New Suite (William Forsythe), Silent Spring (Tim Couchman), Zwischen(t)raum (Helen Pickett), Be…ing (Duosi Zhu and Raquel Martinez), Kindheitstanz (Michael Tucker).
PerformedREMINISCENCE at the Kunsthalle Museum, Zurich 2017 SONATA at Les Hivernales de la Danse Ballet Gala, Belgium 2018
