OLGA ROZANOVA

Theatre historian and critic. Professor of the Vaganova Ballet Academy and Professor of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg). Jury member of the “Golden Mask” National Theatre Award. Expert board member of the Saint Petersburg Highest Theatre Award “Golden Soffit”. PhD in Art History.

In 1964, graduated from the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute (at present the Vaganova Ballet Academy), in 1974 — Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (at present the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts), and graduated from the graduate school of the same university in 1981.

Olga Rozanova was a soloist of the Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) State Philharmonic, the classical ensemble. She worked in the Kirov Theatre (the Mariinsky Theatre) and in the Maly State Opera and Ballet Theatre (the Mikhailovsky Theatre).

She was a ballet master of some ballet productions: Don Quixote (the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) named after Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon (Yakutsk)), La Esmeralda (the Zagursky Irkutsk State Musical Theater), La Bayadère (the Children’s Musical Theater, Vologda), La Sylphide (the Musical Theatre of the Republic of Karelia).

Creator and chairman of the jury of the Leonid Yakobson Modern Choreography Competition (Saint Petersburg; 1990, 1991). She was an honorary guest of the Yuri Grigorovich International Competition “The Young Ballet of the World” (Sochi; 2012, 2014, 2016), head of the magazine Dance. Window to the ballet (1997-2000) together with Natalia Zozulina, and also founder and editor in chief of the magazine Ballet. Ad libitum (2006-2011). She was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Ballet 2000 (Italy).

Author of over 400 theoretical works and publications translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Ukrainian. Commentator of the television show “The Tsar’s Box” on TV channel “Russia — Culture” and observer for ballet premieres on the “Saint Petersburg” TV channel.

Olga Rozanova was awarded the medal “375 years of Yakutia with Russia” (2007) — “for contribution to the development of the national theater culture”. She is a winner of “Soul of Dance” prize, instituted by the Ballet magazine, in the nomination “Press Leader” (2017).