Yana Shtanhei

SOLOIST

Place of birth:
Kharkiv, Ukraine

Education:
The State Ballet School, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Belarusian State Choreography Gymnasium, Minsk

Important teachers:
Galina Serebriakova, Tatiana Cherkasova, Edgar Ananian, Lyudmila Brzhozovskaya

Engagements:
The National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, from 2013 as Dancer, Soloist in 2014, from 2016-2022 First Soloist
Polish National Ballet, Warsaw, since 2022 as Dancer, Coryphée in 2024, Soloist in 2025

REPERTORY

  • With the Polish National Ballet

    • Three Dryads in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)
    • Solo 2. in Exodus (Anna Hop)
    • Couple 3. in Grosse Fuge (Hans van Manen)
    • Podstolina in Sarmatian Parable (Conrad Drzewiecki / Emil Wesołowski)
    • Pas d’action in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Shade-Soloist 2 in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Soloist in Kilar Concerto (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Gamzatti in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Myrtha in Giselle (trad. / Maina Gielgud)
    • Queen of Dryads in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)
    • Grand pas, Variation 1 in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)
    • Conductor in Pinocchio (Anna Hop)
    • Pig 3. in Pinocchio (Anna Hop)
    • Female Vampire 2. in Dracula (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • She-in-the-Green in Peer Gynt (Edward Clug)
    • Prudence Duvernoy in The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
    • Street Dancer in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)

  • With the National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus

    • Soloist in Petit Mort (Jiří Kylián)
    • Spanish Doll in The Nutcracker (Valentin Elizariev)
    • Soloist in Chopiniana (Mikhail Fokine)
    • Love in Sonnets (Alexandra Tikhomirova)
    • Jadwiga in Witold (Yuriy Troyan)
    • Anitra in Peer Gynt (Sergey Mikel)
    • Mme Marie Taglioni in Pas de quatre (Anton Dolin)
    • Mlle Cerrito in Pas de quatre (Anton Dolin)
    • Odalisque in Scheherazade (Mikhail Fokine)
    • Effie in La Sylphide (August Bournonville)
    • Soloist in Flover Festival in Genzano (August Bournonville)
    • Fleur de Lys in Esmeralda (trad.)
    • Rose in Little Prince (Alexandra Tikhomirova)
    • Pascuala in Laurencia (Vakhtang Chabukiani)
    • Dulcynea in Don Quixote (trad. Valentin Elizariev)
    • Phrygia in Spartacus (Valentin Elizariev)
    • Juliain Romeo and Juliet (Valentin Elizariev)
    • Nikiya in La Bayadère (trad. / Pavel Stalinsky)
    • Shade-Soloist in La Bayadère (trad. / Pavel Stalinsky)
    • Pas d’action in La Bayadère (trad. / Pavel Stalinsky)
    • Masha in The Nutcracker (Alexandra Tikhomirova)
    • Médora in Le Corsaire (trad. / Vyacheslav Khomyakov)
    • Odalisque in Le Corsaire (trad. / Vyacheslav Khomyakov)
    • Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Valentin Elizariev)
    • Princess Florina in Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Valentin Elizariev)
    • Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty (trad. Valentin Elizariev)
    • Giselle in Giselle (trad. / Nikita Dolgushin)
    • Pas de trois in Swan Lake (trad. / Asaf Messerer)
    • Odette-Odylie in Swan Lake (trad. / Asaf Messerer)

AWARDS

  • 2011: 1st Prize of the International Crystal Slipper Competition in Kharkov

    2012: Diploma of the International Ballet Competition in Varna

    2014: 2nd Prize of the International Ballet Competition in Istanbul