Gracheva Nadezhda

Nadezhda Gracheva was born in g. Semipalatinsk in 1969. Studied at the Alma-Ata Ballet School. In 1988 she graduated from the Moscow Academic Choreography School (class C. Golovkina). In the same year was admitted to the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater.

Winner of second prize at the International Ballet Competition in Varna (1985.1988 g).
Awarded first prize at the All-Union Ballet Competition in Moscow (1987) and the International Ballet Competition in Osaka (1995).
Winner International Ballet prize "Benois de la Danse" (1991).
People's Artist of Russia, laureate of State Prize of Russia


. The repertoire of dancers: Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), . Sylphide (Sylphide), . Nikia (La Bayadere), . Giselle and Myrtha (Giselle), . Kitri (Don Quixote), . Medora (Le Corsaire), . Juliet (Romeo and Juliet "), . Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), . Mistress of Copper Mountain (Stone Flower), . Aegina (Spartak), . Mekhmeneh Banu ( "Legend of Love"), . Jeanne ( "Last Tango"), . Mazurka ( "Les Sylphides"),

. Nadezhda Gracheva has an extensive concert repertoire - are fragments from the ballets of the classical heritage ( "The Nutcracker", . Paquita, . Esmeralda, . "Flower Festival in Dzhensano", . Coppelia, . "Vain precaution" and others) and contemporary choreography.,

. Took part in the Bolshoi Theater abroad.

. Is engaged in the class in M. Kondratyev and BA Akimov, worked with G. Ulanova, T. Golikova, G. Komleva and others.