Anastasia Soboleva and Victor Lebedev in Romeo and Juliet

Anastasia Soboleva and Victor Lebedev in Romeo and Juliet duet, music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky. Benois de la Danse 2016 Gala, Laureates of different years, shot on 18.5.2016 in The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.

All galleries from 18.5.2016 Benois de la Danse Laureates of Different Years Gala

All galleries from 18.5.2016 Benois de la Danse Laureates of Different Years Gala

Anastasia Soboleva (Rus. Анастасия Соболева) is currently first soloist with Mikhailovsky ballet. In 2001-2003, Nastya studied at the Kiev State Ballet School (classes of Zoya Dolgikh and Tatyana Tayakina). In 2010, she graduated from the Moscow State Ballet Academy (classes of Irina Syrova, Natalya Revitch, Marina Leonova). As a graduate, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company, where she has had Nina Semizorova and Ludmila Semenyaka as répétiteurs. For three years at the Bolshoi, she has danced the whole classical repertoire. In 2013, she joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company as a ballet soloist.

Victor Lebedev (Also Viktor Lebedev, Rus. Виктор Лебедев) is currently principal with Mikhailovsky Ballet. He was born in 1991 in St Petersburg, he graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of M. Enikeyev) in 2010 and the same year joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company.

Photos by Jack Devant Ballet Photography with kind permission of the Benois de la Danse and Bolshoi Theatre, special thanks to Nina Kudriavtseva-Loory and Regina Nikiforova.