Irina Golub


Irina Golub was born in St. Petersburg in 1980 and studied at the Vaganova Academy from 1990 until 1988. She had started to dance at the age of four. Upon graduation in June 1998 she joined the Mariinsky Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet.

In her second season Golub (coached by Gabriella Komleva) was cast in her first soloist roles: Polyhymnia in Balanchine's Apollo (April 2000) and Kitri in Don Quixote (May 2000). At the beginning of her third season with the Mariinsky she made her debut as Carmen in Roland Petit's ballet of the same name, followed by the leading role in Rubies, second part of Balanchine's Jewels.

More recently, the title roles in Leonid Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Alexei Ratmansky's Cinderella, as well as leading roles in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto nr. 2 and Forysthe's In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated were added to her repertory.

Marc Haegeman


Her repertory includes:

  • pas de trois and little swan in Swan Lake (Petipa-Ivanov, staged by K. Sergeyev)
  • odalisque in Le Corsaire (Gusev after Petipa)
  • Gold Fairy in in The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa, staged by Vikharev) (1999)
  • Polyhymnia and Terpsichore in Apollo (Balanchine) (2000)
  • Kitri in Don Quixote (Petipa, Gorsky) (2000)
  • title role in Carmen (Petit) (2000)
  • soloist in Paquita Grand Pas (Petipa)
  • soloist in Rubies from Jewels (Balanchine) (2000)
  • Masha in The Nutcracker (Shemyakin) (2001)
  • Gamzatti in La Bayadère (Petipa, staged by Vikharev) (2001)
  • Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa, staged by Vikharev) (2002)
  • Sounds of Empty Pages (Neumeier)
  • the girl in Spectre de la Rose (Fokine) (2003)
  • Sanguinic in The Four Temperaments (Balanchine) (2004)
  • soloist in In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe) (2004)
  • soloist in Ballet Imperial (Balanchine) (2004)
  • Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Lavrovsky) (2004)
  • title role in Cinderella (Ratmansky)
  • title role in Giselle (Perrot/Coralli, Petipa) (2006)
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