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Bidding farewell after eight years with the Staatsballett
On July 11, 2024, Ksenia Ovsyanick, longtime Principal Dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin, says goodbye to the company after eight years with the ensemble. During the last performance of the season, Giselle by Patrice Bart at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, she will interpret the title character, the peasant girl Giselle, alongside David Soares as Albrecht.
Ksenia Ovsyanick looks back on fulfilling years:
«I'm very grateful for the wonderful and fruitful time I had at Staatsballett Berlin. Thank you to the beautiful collective of dancers and everyone who brings things together backstage and behind the scenes.I always felt the warmth and support. And special thank you to berlin audience for always such a warm welcome.»
Throughout her time in Berlin, she portrayed leading roles in the most significant classical productions such as Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, La Bayadère, The Nutcracker, and Don Quixote. She danced choreographies by prestigious choreographers such as George Balanchine, John Cranko, Anton Dolin, Marco Goecke and Jiří Kylián. In personal collaboration, she was able to contribute her interpretation into works by Patrice Bart, Víctor Ullate, Marcia Haydée, Christian Spuck and was involved in creations by David Dawson, Nacho Duato, Alexander Ekman, Alexei Ratmansky, and Richard Siegal.
The Berlin audience remembers her particularly for her versatility, her openness to artistic experiments, and her profound role interpretations.
Ksenia Ovsyanick was born in Belarus and trained at the Belarussian State Ballet College and the English National Ballet School. From 2008 to 2016, she danced with the English National Ballet and has been engaged as a Principal Dancer with the State Ballet Berlin since 2016. She has received various awards, most recently the Premio Eccelenza della Danza in 2023 and the Dance Open Award in St. Petersburg in 2018, and has performed internationally in China, England, France, Italy, Oman, and Russia. In addition to her career as a dancer, she also completed a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.