Svetlana Lunkina [SEP] place of birth
Svetlana Lunkina
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Lunkina (; born 29 July 1979) is a Russian ballerina who is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
Biography.
Svetlana Lunkina was born in Moscow and attended the Moscow Choreographic Academy. Upon her graduation in 1997, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet. During her first season at the Bolshoi Theatre she was chosen to perform the title role in "Giselle" and thus, at the age of 18, became the youngest Giselle in the history of the Bolshoi.
Over her
2011: as Phoebus, with Maria Alexandrova, Ekaterina Krysanova and Denis Savin
- "Le Corsaire" (choreography: Yuri Burlaka and Alexei Ratmansky), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as Conrad, with Svetlana Lunkina and Nina Kaptsova
- "The Bright Stream" (choreography: Alexei Ratmansky), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as the Ballet Dancer, with Svetlana Lunkina, Maria Alexandrova and Mikhail Lobukhin
- "Raymonda" (choreography: Yuri Grigorovich), Bolshoi Ballet, 2012: as Jean de Brienne, with