Native of Ufa, Sofia Valiullina became a ballerina at Russian Bolshoi Theater

The 18-year-old native of Ufa, a graduate of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (St. Petersburg), Sofya Valiullina, became a ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.

As it became known to Bashinform News Agency, today Sophia took shape in the staff of the Bolshoi Theater and was already studying in a rehearsal class.

On June 19, the series of graduation performances of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet 2023 ended. The first block of three performances was traditionally held at the Mariinsky Theatre, and two more performances were shown in Moscow at the State Kremlin Palace on June 18 and 19.

This year the program includes two suites composed by the rector of the Academy, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, very different in style and mood, according to the website of the Academy. Vaganova. In one of the departments, a suite from the ballet Laurencia, which belongs to the golden fund of Soviet drama ballets, was shown to the music of A. Krein in the choreography of Vakhtang Chabukiani. The main roles of Laurencia and Frondoso were performed by this year's graduates, Sofia Valiullina and Luca Dobos.

Recall that Sofia Valiullina was born in Ufa and began her journey into dance at the age of five in the Ufa Dance Theater "Bravo" with Svetlana Kharisova. She repeatedly became a laureate of international and all-Russian competitions in St. Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and Kazan and was a scholarship holder of the Vladimir Spivakov Charitable Foundation. A few years ago, Sophia and her mother, pianist-accompanist Gulnaz Valiullina, moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. The ballerina was regularly invited to participate in interesting projects related to ballet. In 2015, Sofya became the hero of the “And this is all - ballet” TV series on the channel “Russia Today”, which starred in the video project “The Soul of Ballet”, and became the face of one of the brands of ballet clothing.

Author: Leyla Aralbaeva