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    ANASTASIA VOLOCHKOVA OPENS FINE ARTS CENTRE IN YEREVAN

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/729426/anastasia-volochkova-opens-fine-arts-centre-in-yerevan.html
    10:12, 16 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 16, ARMENPRESS. Merited Artist of the Russian
    Federation Anastasia Volochkova has established centre of fine arts
    bearing her name in Yerevan. The opening ceremony of the centre is
    scheduled to be held on September 15 of the current year.

    Anastasia Volochkova herself will attend the opening ceremony.

    She has been engaged in the process of creation of the centre since
    2011 along with a group of professionals. In a conversation with
    "Armenpress" the co-founder of the centre Zara Mkheyan noted that
    relevant construction and re-equipment activities are ongoing in
    the centre.

    Among other things the co-founder of the centre Zara Mkheyan
    highlighted: "The centre offers a special program for harmonic
    formation of the people, which is aimed at the development of
    children's individual abilities and etiquette."

    Anastasia Volochkova is a renowned Russian prima ballerina.

    Between 1994 and 1998, Volochkova danced as a soloist with the
    Mariinsky Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg,
    performing in productions of Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadère,
    Le Corsaire, Raymonda, Scheherazade, The Firebird, The Fountain of
    Bakhchisarai, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. Together with the
    Mariinsky Ballet, she also got to tour all around the world, including
    Great Britain, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Germany,
    Denmark, Norway, Bahrain, South Korea, Japan,Canada and the USA,
    making her US debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1995.

    >From 1998 to 2000, Volochkova danced as prima ballerina with the
    Bolshoi Ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, guided by Ekaterina
    Maximova. Volochkova performed in productions of Giselle, La Bayadère,
    Raymonda, Russian Hamlet, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, touring
    throughout Europe as well.

    Additionally, she also headlined a performance at the Kennedy Center
    in Washington, D.C., the USA.[7] In 2001, Yury Grigorovich personally
    invited her to return to the Bolshoi Ballet to dance the double-role of
    Odette-Odile in Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre, for which Volochkova
    was awarded the prestigious Prix Benois de la Danse in 2002. In the
    same year, she was also awarded with the title of Honoured Artist
    of Russia.

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