Natalia Osipova

Natalia Osipova

Natalia Petrovna Osipova (born 18 May 1986) is a Russian ballerina, currently a principal ballerina with The Royal Ballet in London. Osipova began formal ballet training at the age of nine at the Mikhail Lavrosky Ballet School. From 1996 to 2004, she studied at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (The Bolshoi Ballet Academy), under the tutelage of Marina Kotova and Marina Leonova.

After leaving the Bolshoi, she joined American Ballet Theatre as a guest dancer for their Metropolitan Opera House season. She danced Don Quixote with José Manuel Carreño, and both The Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet with David Hallberg. A week before her performance in The Sleeping Beauty, she was robbed outside the Met, but suffered only minor bruises and was able to perform. She lost only a pair of pointe shoes and a small hammer used to shape them. In December 2011, she joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet.

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Natalia Osipova
  • Les Flammes de Paris (2010)

    Les Flammes de Paris by B. Asafiev, from Bolshoi Ballet, performed at Bolshoi Theatre, 2010. Conductor Pavel Sorokin, starring Pavel Sorokin, Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Nina Kaptsova, Denis Savin, Anna Antonicheva, Yuri Klevtsov, Antoine Mistral, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.

  • The Mother (2019)

    The Mother by Moon; Price, from Asterisk Films, performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 2019.