Yekaterina Osmolkina in Paquita grand pas variation

Yekaterina Osmolkina (Rus Екатерина Осмолкина) in Paquita Grand Pas variation, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, revival by Lidia Tiuntina, Pyotr Gusev and Georgy Konishchev. Shot on 19.3.2015, artistic evening of Victoria Tereshkina in Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia.

 

Yekaterina Osmolkina (Rus Екатерина Осмолкина) is first soloist with Mariinsky Ballet. She was born in Kishinev (Moldova). Osmolkina graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (class of Professor Inna Zubkovskaya). She joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 1999.

Photos by Jack Devant ballet photography © with kind permission of the Mariinsky Theatre, special thanks to Natalia Kozhevnikova and Ekaterina Ordovskaya.