Iana Salenko and Dinu Tamazlacaru in La Halte de Cavaliere

Iana Salenko and Dinu Tamazlacaru in La Halte de Cavaliere, music Ivan Armsheimer, choreography Marius Petipa.

Iana Salenko is a principal dancer at Staatsballett Berlin. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Iana was trained
1995-2000 in Pisarev Ballet School, Donetsk. Career: 2000 Soloist Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre; 2002 Principal Dancer National Opera House of Ukraine; 2005 Demi-soloist Staatsballett Berlin; 2006 Soloist; since 2007 Principal Dancer.

Dinu Tamazlacaru is a Principal Guest of the Berlin State Ballet. Born in Chisinau, Moldavia, in 2000 he graduated from the National Ballet School in Chisinau (Alexander Ivanov’s class), in 2002 from the Vienna Ballet Conservatory (Maxim Abzalov’s class). In 2000, he joined the ballet company of Unter den Linden Theatre in Berlin, in 2004 he joined the Berlin State Ballet.

Photos by Jack Devant © with kind permission of Teatro di San Carlo, special thanks to Giulia Romito