Principal dancer
Irina Kolesnikova is the Principal dancer of the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1998 and she joined the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre of Konstantin Tachkin (SPBT). With this corps, she has toured internationally, playing mostly Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. Other roles in her repertoire include Giselle"," The Nutcracker, St Petersburg's Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Romeo and Juliet, Paquita, Chopiniana and others.