
was born in the Ukraine and is today, at the early age of 21, already a
leading soloist of the National Ballet in Kiev. She got her
professional education at the Academy in Kiev by the renowned teacher
Alla Lagoda who very soon noticed her exceptional talent.
At the
age of 16, Natalia Domracheva won the Grand Prix of the Ukrainian
National Competition as well as the silver medal of the Prix de
Lausanne. Only one year later, in Moscow, she received the silver medal
in the contest's junior class and this year also in the senior class.
Since
she was a child, Natalia Domracheva has performed on the stage of the
National Theatre in Kiev where, nowadays, she dances the important
ballerina parts of her large repertoire: f. ex. Giselle, Aurora in
Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in
Don Quijote as well as one of the friends in
Raymonda.
International
guest performances with the Kiev Ballet have led the young ballerina to
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Switzerland as well as to
Japan and Mexico.