Marika Muiste

(soloist)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Marika Muiste graduated from Tallinn Ballet School in 1998. She joined the Estonian National Ballet in the same year and is a soloist since 2003.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Marika Muiste has won the Philip Morris Young Dancer’s Award in 2001 and the Klaudia Maldutis Award by Estonia Society Foundation in 2008.

MEMORABLE MOMENT IN BALLET
“”Shannon Rose” will always have a special spot in my heart, as it was the time when I fell in love with my husband Anatoli Arhangelski. It was also great fun to dance one of the Stepsisters in Marina Kesler’s “Cinderella”. I have always enjoyed dancing interesting characters not just variations.”

REPERTOIRE
Daughter (Tubin’s “The Goblin”)
Fairy, Carabosse, the Cat (“The Sleeping Beauty” by Tchaikovsky)
Giselle’s friend, 2 Wilis (Adam’s “Giselle”)
Sylph (“La Sylphide” by Bournonville)
Rose (Vàmos’s “Shannon Rose”)
Adele (Hynd’s “Rosalinde”)
Swanilda’s friend (Delibes’s “Coppélia”)
Lescaut’s Mistress (MacMillan’s “Manon”)
Madame Bonacieux (“The Three Musketeers” by Nixon)
Klara (Bigonzetti’s “Coppélia”)
Ophelia (Titova’s “Hamlet”)
Quiteria’s friend (Minkus’ “Don Quixote”)
“Dance of the Small Swans” and Pas de trois (Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”)
Spring and Stepsister (Prokofiev’s “Cinderella”)
Snow Queen, the soloist of “Waltz of the Flowers” and “Chinese Dance” (“The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky)
Beauty (“The Firebird” by Stravinsky)
Girl (Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Anaïs (Härm’s “La Dame aux Camélias”)
Gypsy (Pugni/Dolgushin’s “Esmeralda”)

Soloist roles:
Fokin’s “Chopiniana”
Chopin/Elo’s “Red With Me”
Teet Kase’s “UrsulaX”
Russel Adamson’s jazz ballets 
Strauss “Eine Nacht in Venedig” and “Der Wiener Blut”
Grib’s “Tango”