Yuliana Malkhasyants
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Yuliana Malkhasyants | |
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| Employer | Bolshoi Theatre |
| Awards | Honoured Artist of Russia (1997) Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class (2001) |
Yuliana Malkhasyants is a Russian choreographer and a recipient of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class as well as Honored Artist of Russia.
Malkhasyants was born as the only child to a ballet family in Perm, Russia. Her mother danced Kitri two months after she was born while her father was a Spanish dancer as well as a teacher.[1] She then began to attend and then graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1983 where she was under guidance from Galina Kuznetsova.[2] After the graduation she quite performing classical roles which she realized wasn't her best after she performed in a comic ballet called Coppélia at the age of 18.[1] Later on she was invited to Bolshoi Theatre's ballet company by Yury Grigorovich after he saw her dancing both Gipsy and Georgian dances as well as Lezginka[1] and then began attending Russian Academy of Theatre Arts from which she graduated as ballet master in 1994.[2]