Alina Somova
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22 October 1985
Alina Somova | |
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| Born | Алина Алексеевна Сомова 22 October 1985 |
| Education | Dance Krushok School for Children; Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet |
| Occupation | Ballet dancer |
| Career | |
| Current group | Mariinsky Ballet |
| Dances | Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, Raymonda |
Alina Alekseevna Somova (Russian: Али́на Алексе́евна Со́мова; born 22 October 1985) is a Russian ballet dancer and principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg.
When Somova was young, she went to a regular Saint Petersburg school and then to a special math school at her mother's insistence. She was not able to excel in sports like her mother wished due to Russia's political and economic transition in the 1990s. Because of this, she was then introduced to ballet at the Dance Krushok school for children where she was recognized for her physical gifts for dancing. After it came time to choose math or ballet, she claimed there was no choice and then admitted herself to a one-year pre-curriculum program at the Vaganova Academy, before embarking on the eight-year course. She was a prize-winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Ballet Competition in St. Petersburg in 2002, and graduated in 2003 under the class of Lyudmila Safronova.[1][2][3]
As of 2023, Somova has two children and lives in Georgia.
