Yulia Manjeles and Sergey Volobuev in Anna Karenina

Yulia Manjeles as Anna and Sergey Volobuev as Vronsky in Anna Karenina by Boris Eifman. St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman, taken on 26.03.2014 at Alexandrinsky Theatre.

Yulia Manjeles is currently leading soloist with Panfilov Ballet Theater in Perm, Russia. Yulia was born in Krasnoyarsk. She got formal dance education at Perm State choreographic College, class 1995-2003. At 2003 Yulia started dancing with The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of Russia’s oldest theatres and a major centre for music. Leaving Perm on 2010, she moved to St Petersburg and joined Boris Eifman Ballet Company and stayed there until 2013 when she moved back to Perm.

Sergey Volobuev is soloist with Boris Eifman Ballet Company.  He was born in 1986 in Kovel (Ukraine). In 2004 Sergey graduated from the Kiev Choreographic School. Since 2004, he is soloist in St. Petersburg Boris Eifman State Ballet Theatre.

Photo by Jack Devant ballet photography © with kind permission of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman, special thanks to Boris Eifman and Sergey Ilchenko.