Stefanija Gashtarska
4 September (Macedonia)
Ballet dancer
The soloist of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of the brightest and most promising young ballerinas, became a real discovery last season, striking the audience with her soulful performance of the part of Odette in the ballet Swan Lake on tour at the Mikhailovsky Theater.
Laureate of international competitions:
- European Grand Prix (2011, Subotica, Croatia);
- International Music Festival in Skopje (2013, 2014; Macedonia);
- European Union Youth Music Competition (2014, 2015);
- Competition of ballet dancers in Sibiu (2015, Romania);
- International competition of ballet dancers. Domenico Modugno (2016, Bari, Italy);
- Diploma winner of the Open competition of ballet dancers “Arabesque” named after. Ekaterina Maksimova (2016, Perm).
2016 – The Perm State Choreographic School (class of Elizaveta Khrebtova).
In 2017-2020 – studying at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography – The Bolshoi Ballet Academy (class of Irina Pyatkina), where being a freshman, she danced an adagio with four gentlemen from the ballet “Sleeping Beauty”, and then solo parts followed, participation in all concerts of the Academy, including stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, the part of Marie in The Nutcracker on tour in Athens.
Season 2021/22, 2022/23 – soloist in the troupe of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. P. I. Tchaikovsky.
During her studies she performed the following roles: Variation of Raymonda from Act II (“Raymonda” by Glazunov), Mercedes (“Don Quixote” by Minkus), Adagio of Princess Aurora with four gentlemen (“Sleeping Beauty” by Tchaikovsky), pas de deux (“Millions of Harlequin” Drigo), Masha (“The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky, tour in Greece, 2019) and others.
In the repertoire:
- Nikiya (“La Bayadère” by Minkus)
- Medora, Odalisque (“Le Corsaire”)
- Giselle (“Giselle”) – in Adam’s ballets
- Odette, Odile, The Great Swan (Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, revised version by Alexei Miroshnichenko)
- Marie (Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, choreography by Alexei Miroshnichenko)
- Princess Aurora (Khrushcheva-Tchaikovsky’s Ballet Guide)
- Juliet (“Romeo and Juliet” Prokofiev, choreography by Sir Kenneth Macmillan)
- soloist (The Second Detail to music by Willems, choreography by William Forsyth).
