When did Olga Smirnova start dancing? When did Olga Smirnova start ballet? How old was Olga Smirnova when she started ballet?

Olga Smirnova is a Russian ballet dancer who is currently a prima ballerina with Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has danced at venues across Europe as well as appearing in Beijing and Japan.

When did Olga Smirnova start dancing?

Olga Smirnova’s mother encouraged her to take up the art at the Vaganova Academy where she studied under Lyudmila Kovaleva.

She participated in the academy’s tours across Europe and Japan, performing in the 2004 presentation arranged jointly with the Royal Ballet School.

When did Olga Smirnova start ballet?

In 2011, while still a student at the Vaganova academy she appeared in London at the London Coliseum to commemorate Galina Ulanova, who is said to be one of the greatest of ballerinas.

For the commemoration routine, which was choreographed by A. Messerer and accompanied by Dvořák’s Melody, Smirnova danced with S. Strelkov. She also danced, in June of that year, at Diana Vishneva’s benefit performance at the Mariinsky theatre.

The following month she was in Beijing, partnered by the Bolshoi’s principal dancer Semyon Chudin, performing Grand Pas Classique to music by the 19th-century French composer Daniel Auber.

How old was Olga Smirnova when she started ballet?

Smirnova was accepted immediately, at age 10, and her talent didn’t go unnoticed.