Dominika Krysztoforska

First Soloist

Born

Mława, Poland

Education

  • The Roman Turczynowicz State Ballet School, Warsaw

Important teachers

  • Krystyna Sadowska, Dorota Puzanowska, Flora Czernienko, Teresa Memches, Barbara Gołaska

Engagements

  • Ballet of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Warsaw, from 1994, from 1995 as Coryphée, from 1996 as Soloist, 1998-2009 as First Soloist
  • Polish National Ballet, Warsaw, since 2009 as First Soloist

Gallery

Repertory

  • With the Polish National Ballet

    • Blanchefleur in Tristan (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Madame Larina in Onegin (John Cranko)
    • D'jampée Soloist in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Betsy in Anna Karenina (Alexei Ratmansky)
    • Eurydice (New Orpheus) in Kurt Weill (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Wie lange noch? & other solos in Kurt Weill (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Andrzej Glegolski)
    • Fryderyk's Mother in Chopin, the Romantic Artist (creation, Patrice Bart)
    • George Sand in Chopin, the Romantic Artist (Patrice Bart)
    • Fairy of the Delicacy & Cinderella in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Second Air in In Light and Shadow (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Frederick Ashton)
    • Couple & Our-Third Woman in And the Rain Will Pass... (creation, Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Couple & Our-Third Woman in And the Rain Will Pass... (creation, Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Three Tall Women in Le Sacre du printemps (Vaslav Nijinsky / Millicent Hodson)
    • Couple & Our-Third Woman in And the Rain Will Pass... (creation, Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Three Tall Women in Le Sacre du printemps (Vaslav Nijinsky / Millicent Hodson)
    • Clara's Mother in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Queen in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • 2nd Lady of the Street in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
    • Tsarina Maria in Swan Lake (creation, with new libretto, Krzysztof Pastor)
      • and solos in
    • Alpha Cryonia Xe (Jacek Przybyłowicz)
    • The Garden's Gates (creation, Robert Bondara, 2nd Choreographic Workshop)
    • Love (creation, Arkadiusz Gołygowski, 4th Choreographic Workshop)
    • Collars (creation, Anna Hop, 5th Choreographic Workshop)
    • In this Head (creation, Tomasz Fabiański, 7th Choreographic Workshop)

  • Earlier

    With the Roman Turczynowicz State Ballet School
    • Queen in The Kingdom of the Autumn Leaves (creation, Kama Akucewicz)
    • La Sylphide in Graduation Ball (David Lichine)
    • Lilac Fairy in Divertissement from The Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa)
    • Duet Air (László Seregi / Teresa Memches)

  • With the Ballet of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

    • Odette in Swan Lake (trad. / Konstantin Sergeyev)
    • Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Andrzej Glegolski)
    • Four Swans & Fiancée in Swan Lake (trad. / Konstantin Sergeyev)
    • Two Willis in Giselle (trad. / Anatoli Gridin, Irina Mikhailichenko)
    • Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (trad. / Konstantin Sergeyev)
    • Soloist in Carmina Burana (Antal Fodor)
    • Giselle in Giselle (trad. / Anatoli Gridin, Irina Mikhailichenko)
    • Fairy of the Delicacy & Cinderella in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Marina in Zorba the Greek (Lorca Massine)
    • Queen in The Three Musketeers (André Prokovsky)
    • Mrs. T. in Jeux (Emil Wesołowski)
    • Wife in La dolce vita (creation, Zofia Rudnicka)
    • Fascist & Teacher in La dolce vita (creation, Zofia Rudnicka)
    • M... in Carmen (Mats Ek)
    • Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (trad. / Irek Mukhamedov)
    • Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake (trad. / Irek Mukhamedov)
    • Baroness Nadezhda von Meck in Tchaikovsky (Boris Eifman)
    • Four Swans in Swan Lake (trad. / Irek Mukhamedov)
    • Lise's Friend in La fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
    • First Soloist in Musagète (Boris Eifman)
    • Phrygia in Spartacus (Emil Wesołowski)
    • Widow in Harnasie (Emil Wesołowski)
    • Madame Larina in Onegin (John Cranko)
    • Barbara Radziwiłł in Master Twardowski (creation, Gustaw Klauzner)
    • Queen of the East in Master Twardowski (Gustaw Klauzner)
    • Betsy in Anna Karenina (Alexei Ratmansky)

      • and solos in
    • Alpha Cryonia Xe (creation, Jacek Przybyłowicz)
    • Petite Mort (Jiří Kylián)
    • Third Symphony “Song of the Night” of Karol Szymanowski (creation, Jacek Przybyłowicz)
    • Love (creation, Arkadiusz Gołygowski, 4th Choreographic Workshop)
  • With other companies
    • Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Ewa Wycichowska & trad. / Liliana Kowalska), Polish Dance Theatre – Poznań Ballet
    • Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (trad. / Liliana Kowalska), Polish Dance Theatre – Poznań Ballet
    • Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Ewa Wycichowska & trad. / Liliana Kowalska), Ballet of the Wielki Theatre, Poznań
    • Duet in The Three Colours (creation, Marek Zajączkowski), Ballet of the Nova Opera, Bydgoszcz
    • Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Ewa Wycichowska & trad. / Victor Smirnov-Golovanov), Ballet of the Wrocław Opera

  • Guesting

    • Poland: Bydgoszcz, Bytom, Gdańsk, Kielce, Kraków, Łódź, Poznań, Sopot, Szczecin, Wrocław
    • Japan: Nagoya (Second International Ballet Competition)
    • Italy, Cyprus (with the Ballet of the Polish National Opera)
    • Germany: tour (with the Polish Dance Theatre – Poznań Ballet)
    • Lithuania: Vilnius (concert); Latvia: Riga (concert)
    • Russia: Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (with the Ballet of the Polish National Opera & with the Polish National Ballet)
    • China: Shanghai (with the Polish National Ballet, World Expo, 2010)
    • Norway: Bergen (with the Polish National Ballet, 2010)

Awards

    • 1993: First Junior Prize at the 8th Dance Competition in Gdańsk, Poland
    • 1993: Scholarship of the Polish Children's Fund
    • 1994: Title and Prize for “The Best Graduate of the Polish Ballet Schools”
    • 1996: Bronze Medal at the 2nd International Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Japan
    • 1996: Woizikovsky Medal for outstanding young individual of Polish ballet
    • 1997: Medal of 200 Years of Polish Ballet awarded by the Ministry of Culture
    • 2011: Honorary Medal from the Ballet Foundation in Szczecin, Poland
    • 2011: Silver Medal for Merit to Culture "Gloria Artis" in Warsaw