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Marina Chirkova graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988 and was first engaged at the Maria Theatre in St. Petersburg. Since 1999 she is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera and since 2002 she is the principal dancer.
Her roles include Sylphide (Bournonville’s La Sylphide), Odette/Ottilie, Aurora, Maria and Klara (Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker), Giselle and Myrtha (Adam's Giselle), Juliet (Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet), Zarema (Assafiev’s The Fountain of Bahtchissarai), Olympia (Delibes’ Coppélia), Anna Karenina (Shtshedrin’s Anna Karenina), Sylphide (Schnitzhoeffer's Sylphide), Renata (Skrjabin’s The Fire Angel), Chloë (Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloë), Esmeralda (Pugni La Esmeralda), Cassandra (Cannito/Schiavoni’s Cassandra), Quiteria (Minkus’ Don Quixote), Marguerite Gautier (Tiit Härm’s La Dame aux Camélias to the music of F. Liszt), Lady de Winter (Nixon’s The Three Musketeers); she has been the soloist in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade (choreography by M. Fokin), Bizet’s Symphony C major (choreography by G. Balanchine), Tchaikovsky’s serenade for strings in C major (choreography by G. Balanchine), Skryabin’s Poem of Ecstasy (choreography by A. Rotmansky), Saint-Saëns’ The Dying Swan (choreography by M. Fokin) and in Chopiniana (choreography by M. Fokin to the music of F. Chopin), Ravel’s Bolero (choreography by T. Härm), etc.
Marina Chirkova and Vladimir Arhangelski have performed in many countries all over the world including Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Israel, U.S.A., Canada, Korea, France, Japan, Norway, Brazil, Argentina and many others.
Marina Chirkova has won many prizes: 2nd prize at the Moscow International Ballet Artists’ Competition (1993), in 1994 she received the St. Petersburg Radio “Meridian” award for merits in the field of choreographic art, in 1999 she received the Estonian Annual Theatre Award together with Vladimir Arhangelski, in 2000 she received the Estonian Cultural Endowment scholarship, the Philip Morris Best Dancer Award in 2002 and the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for the role of Rose in Shannon Rose (2006).
She was the choreographer and consultant on Russian language for the production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (2004). She is the founder and teacher of the ballet school The Flight of Swans since 2005.
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