Anastasia Bannikova

Winner of the 2nd prize in the category "juniors" at the International Dance Week (Settimana Internazionale della Danza) in Perugia in 1998. She took part in the III International Competition. Rudolf Nureyev in Budapest. She graduated from the Odessa State Choreographic School in 1998 (class of the teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine Elviraa Karavaeva), then the Odessa State School of Culture and Arts. K. Dankevich in the class of the People's Artist of Ukraine Elena Baranovskaya - in 2002. In the same year she entered the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. In 2011 she graduated from the International Slavic University in Kiev.

Her repertoire includes:

• Variations ("Paquita" by Ludwig Minkus);
• Jump of pair and Pas d'actions ("La Bayadere" by Ludwig Minkus);
• Grand pas ("Don Quixote" by Ludwig Minkus);
• Persian princess and the part in the "The Kiss by Klimt" (Gala Ballet "Nureyev forever ...");
•  Waltz of pair ("Swan Lake" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky);
• Pas de quatre of Jewels and Ladies in waiting ("Sleeping Beauty" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky);
• Waltz of the Flowers and the part of Wife ("The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky);
• Pair of Sylphides ("Les Sylphides" to the music of Frederic Chopin);
• Tobacco worker ("Carmen Suite" by Georges Bizet - Rodion Shchedrin);
• The Water Fairy ("The Secret of the Vienna Woods" to the music of Johann Strauss and Gustav Mahler);
• Nymphs ("Walpurgis Night" by Charles Gounod);
• Amelia ("A Masked Ball" by Giuseppe Verdi);
• Princess Maria ("Polovtsian Dances" in the opera "Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin);
• Spanish dance ("La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi);
• Dance of the Hours ("La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli).