1. Natalia Petrovna Osipova is a Russian ballerina, currently a principal ballerina with The Royal Ballet in London.
16 Facts About Natalia Osipova
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Natalia Osipova was named one of the 25 to Watch by Dance Magazine in 2007 and became a leading soloist in 2009.
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Natalia Osipova danced Don Quixote with Jose Manuel Carreno, and both The Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet with David Hallberg.
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Natalia Osipova lost only a pair of pointe shoes and a small hammer used to shape them.
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In 2011, Natalia Osipova performed in Roy Assaf's Six Years Later, partnering with Jason Kittelberger and the same year danced in Valse Triste by Alexei Ratmansky.
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On 8 April 2013, it was announced that Natalia Osipova would join The Royal Ballet as a principal dancer, having previously danced as a guest artist in Swan Lake.
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Natalia Osipova cited the broader and more diverse repertoire as her primary motivation for the move.
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Natalia Osipova debuted on 21 November 2013, in Romeo and Juliet, partnered by Carlos Acosta.
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Natalia Osipova has danced in The Nutcracker and Giselle, with Acosta and Federico Bonelli.
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In 2018, Natalia Osipova appeared with David Hallberg in Pure Dance, a refined ballet of Antony Tudor's The Leaves Are Fading from 1975.
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In 2019, Natalia Osipova played the role of a mother in The Mother of Arthur Pita and in June 2019 she appeared in Gerald Fox's documentary film Force of Nature.
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Natalia Osipova performed with David Hallberg, dancing Giselle at Lincoln Center in New York.
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Natalia Osipova played a supporting role in the 2023 biopic drama Joika about the American ballerina Joy Womack.
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Natalia Osipova moved to London in 2013; she is a naturalised British citizen.
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Natalia Osipova formerly had relationships with dancers Ivan Vasiliev, to whom she was engaged, and Sergei Polunin.
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Natalia Osipova contracted COVID-19 twice: in December 2021 and March 2022.