Anastasia Yatsenko

Merited Artist of the Russian Federation
the Bolshoi Theater of Russia

Dance Open: 2005

Born in Moscow. In 1991, on completing her studies at the Moscow College of Choreography (today the Moscow Academy of Choreography), where she was a pupil of Sophia Golovkina, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. In 1996, she won the 1st prize at the Arabesque Open Competition of Ballet Dancers of Russia, in Perm, and the 2nd prize at the Maya International Competition of Ballet Dancers, in Saint-Petersburg. In 2002, she was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.