Mrs Oxana Panchenko's Biography

Mrs Oxana Panchenko's Professional Career

Career

dancer; Kiev Opera House 1988-90, sr soloist with English Nat Ballet 1990-93, Munich Ballet 1993-95, modelling work 1995-97, City Ballet of London 1997 and 2000, Wayne Sleep's Aspects of Dance 1999, K Ballet 2001, George Piper Dances 2001-, Adventures in Motion Pictures 2003-04; featured in The Rough Guide to Choreography (Channel 4) 2004, asst Strictly Bolshoi documentary (Ballet Boyz Prodns) 2007; Performances with Kiev Opera House: Two Friends of Kitri in Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Effirn in La Sylphide, roles in La Bayadere; with English Nat Ballet: Olga in Onegin, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Zivia in Romeo and Juliet by Ashton, Act III Pas de Trois in La Bayadere, Peasant Pas de Deux and Myrtha in Giselle, Big Swans and Pas de Trois in Swan Lake, Apollo by Balanchine, Snow Queen, Mirlitons and Arabian Dance in The Nutcracker, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, Zobeide in Sherherazade, White Girls in Etudes, Pas de Quatre in Raymonda, Autumn Fairy in Cinderella; with Munich Ballet: princ roles in Sinfonietta and Svadebka by Kylian, Brief Fling by Twyla Tharp, Symphony in C by Balanchine, Complete Consort by Bintley, Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, A Midsummer Night's Dream; with City Ballet of London: princ role in The Sleeping Beauty, princ role in Sinfonietta Giocosa, Five Tangos by Hans Van Manen, Entre Dos Aguas by Robert North, solo in TBA by Christopher Hampson, qv, Ghost of Christmas Past in Christmas Carol by Christopher Hampson; with Wayne Sleep's Aspects of Dance: Dineresade by Christopher Hampson, solo in Dragon Fly, Pas de Deux in Sleeping Beauty, Canciones by Christopher Hampson; with K Ballet: Rhapsody by Ashton, Six Faces by Adam Cooper; with George Piper Dances: Steptext by William Forsythe, Sigue by Paul Lightfoot, Moments of Plastic Jubilation by Michael Nunn, qv, and William Trevitt, qv, Truly Great Thing by Charles Linehan, Lady Barnard in Other Mens Wives by Matthew Hart, qv, Mesmerics by Christopher Wheeldon, Trio by Russell Maliphant, qv, Ophelia in Non Exuent by Cathy Marston, Approximate Sonata I, V by William Forsythe, Broken Fall by Russell Maliphant, Follow By William Trevitt; The Queen in Swan Lake (with Adventures in Motion Pictures) 2003-04; other performances incl: Amox 2007, Riapertura 2007 (both Ballet Boyz Gala Royal Festival Hall), Mesmerics 2007, Propeller 2007 (both with Morphoses), Greatest Hits (Sadler's Wells Theatre); Awards Outstanding Performance Time Out Award 2001 (for Steptext), Outstanding Female Classical Artist Critics Circle National Dance Award 2003

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