Oksana Bondareva

Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, she graduated from the Ballet School of the Dnepropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2002 and the same year joined the ballet company of the theatre. In 2008–2009 Oksana trained at the Moscow State Ballet Academy. In 2009–2014, she was a dancer with the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where her repertoire included roles of Kitri (Don Quixote), Sylphide (La Sylphide), Odette — Odile (Swan Lake), Medora, Gulnara (Le Corsaire), Jacinta (Laurencia), Jeanne (The Flames of Paris), Nikiya, Gamzatti (La Bayadere), Princess Aurora, Gold Fairy, Force Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), as well as roles in the ballets In a Minor Key (chor. by Slava Samodurov), Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness, Prelude, Without Words, Invisible (chor. by Nacho Duato). In 2014–2017, she was a dancer with the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2018, she has been a guest ballerina with t e Mikhailovsky Theatre.