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Natalia Osipova

Russian dancer Natalia Osipova is a Principal of The Royal Ballet. She joined the Company as a Principal in autumn 2013, after appearing as a Guest Artist the previous Season as Odette/Odile (Swan Lake) with Carlos Acosta. Her roles with the Company include Giselle, Cinderella, Kitri (Don Quixote), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Lise (La Fille mal gardée), Titania (The Dream), Marguerite (Marguerite and Armand), Juliet, Tatiana (Onegin), Manon, Sylvia, Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), Natalia Petrovna (A Month in the Country), Anastasia and Anna Anderson, Gamzatti and Nikiya (La Bayadère) and roles in Rhapsody, Serenade, Raymonda Act III, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, woman with water and Tchaikovsky Pas de deux. She has created numerous roles – in The Weathering, Strapless, Woolf Works, Tetractys, Connectome, Medusa, Concerto pour deux and works by Possokhov and Ratmansky, among others.

Osipova was born in Moscow and began dancing at the age of five. Aged eight she joined the Mikhail Lavrosky Ballet

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Principal, The Royal Ballet

interviewed byDavid Bain and interpreted by Olya David
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, March 11 2015

Following David's welcome to Natalia (who said she speaks a little English but not enough for this talk) and her interpreter, Olya David, she began by saying she was born in Moscow in a simple family with no connection to ballet or the arts. She did gymnastics for four years and would have been good but due to an injury she had to give up which was a tragedy because she wanted to become Olympic champion. Unfortunately her parents decided to take her to ballet which was a further tragedy as she didn’t want to do it under any circumstances! She began to dance but there were so many complaints from teachers as she was bored and spent her time looking out of the window! Although she had good ability and skill she just didn’t like it. She also wanted to become a doctor so gave up ballet for three months to study but went back to class to please her parents. On her return to ballet school something changed as she started dancing rat

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Natalia Osipova - Bolshoi Ballet

Natalia Osipova was born in Moscow on May 18, 1986. Decided to pursue a career as a gymnast when she was a child, Osipova only turned to ballet because of a back problem. From 1996 until 2004 she studied at the Moscow Choreographic Academy with Marina Kotova and Marina Leonova. While still a pupil at the Academy, in April 2003, she won the "Grand Prix" at the International Ballet Competition in Luxemburg, dancing variations from "La Bayadère", "Don Quixote", "Esmeralda" and "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux", as well as the especially created contemporary piece "Liturgy" by Yegor Druzhinin.

Upon graduation in 2004 Natalia joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet. Alongside corps de ballet work she was immediately given solo parts. Already in September 2004 she performed the Peasant pas de deux in "Giselle" with Vyacheslav Lopatin. In November 2004, Natalia was cast as leading dancer in "Bolero", a creation by artistic director Alexei Ratmansky, set during the first Bolshoi Theatre's workshop. Initially Natalia was coached by