Alena Shkatula

(principal dancer)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Alena Shkatula graduated from Minsk Ballet School in 2003.
In 2003–2008, she was a dancer with the Belarus Opera and Ballet Theatre, since 2005 as a soloist.
Since 2008, she is a principal dancer of the Estonian National Ballet.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
She is the laureate of the Helsinki International Ballet Competition (2009), the winner of the Annual Estonia Theatre Award and the ERGO Dance Award in 2012.

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN BALLET
“To work as an assistant to Thomas Edur, while he created “Romeo and Juliet” and “Catherine I”.”

REPERTOIRE
Juliet (Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Jeanne Hébuterne (Edur’s/Aints’ “Modigliani – the Cursed Artist”)
Tchaikovsky’s Odette/Ottilie (“Swan Lake”)
Giselle (Adam/Skeaping’s “Giselle”)
Princess Aurora (Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty”)
Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”)
Catherine (Edur’s/Aints’ “Catherine I”)
Medea (Schiavoni’s “Medea” to the music of Stravinsky, Schnittke and Dead Can Dance)
Manon (MacMillan’s “Manon”)
Tatyana (Cranko’s “Onegin”)
Cinderella (Prokofiev’s “Cinderella”)
Nikya (Minkus’ “La Bayadère”)
Quiteria (Minkus’ “Don Quixote”)
Rosalinde (Hynd’s “Rosalinde”)
Woman (MacMillan’s “Song of the Earth”)
Queen Anne (“The Three Musketeers” by Nixon)
The Pink Girl (Balanchine’s “The Song of the Earth”)

Solos:
Ravel’s “Boléro”
Scholz’s “Symphony No. 2”
Edur’s “Silent Monologues”