Kristina Shapran

Kristina Shapran was born in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2011. From 2011–2014 she was a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre where her repertoire included lead roles in the ballets Giselle (Giselle), Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads), The Nutcracker (Masha), Natalia Makarova’s production of La Bayadère (Nikia), Pierre Lacotte’s staging of La Sylphide (The Sylph) and Roland Petit’s production of Coppélia (Swanilda).

From January to June 2014 she was a principal dancer at the Mikhailovsky Theatre where she performed lead roles in the ballets Giselle (Giselle), La Bayadère (Nikia), Le Corsaire (Medora) and Multiplicity, and Forms of Silence and Emptiness (from Nacho Duato). She joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2014. In December 2015 she made her debut at the Paris Opera Ballet as Nikija in the ballet La Bayadère, staged by Rudolf Nureyev.