Anna Ščekaleva

Ballet soloist

She began her studies at the Choreographic Institute in the Russian Voronezh (1985-1993). In 1992 she attended a course of modern dance under the leadership of the first dancer of Marta Graham Betty Jones ensemble. Since 1989 she was member of the ensemble and since 1991 soloist of the ballet of the Voronezh Theatre. In 1993-1995 she was soloist of the Municipal Theatre Ústí nad Labem, where she danced, among others, Giselle, Mercedes in Don Quixote, The Girl in Carmina Burana, Golden-Hair in the ballet From Fairy Tale to Fairy Tale. In 1995-2000 she had permanent engagement as soloist of the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc where she again danced Giselle, and also Odetta/Odile In Swan Lake, Princess Aurora and the Good Fairy in the Sleeping Beauty, Olympia in Hoffman’s Stories, Carmen, Manon. The most significant roles in the ballet of the Prague State Opera, where she has been engaged since 2004, are Odette/Odile and Pas de trois in Swan Lake, Cinderella in the ballet of Sergey Prokofiev, Titania and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Charlotta in The Phantom of the Opera and the solo in Time of Pain.