1. Polina Alexandrovna Semionova is a Russian ballet dancer and model for Uniqlo who was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York and with the Berlin State Ballet.
12 Facts About Polina Semionova
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Polina Semionova is a professor at the Berlin State Ballet School.
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Polina Semionova attended Ballet school with her older brother Dmitry Semionov, who is a principal dancer with the Staatsballett Berlin.
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Polina Semionova toured Japan as Malakhov's partner, the reason he had invited her to be a principal in the company.
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Polina Semionova gave her the lead roles in The Nutcracker and La Bayadere during her first season, following with the role of Tatiana in Onegin, which became her favourite role.
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In 2003, at the age of 19, Polina Semionova performed with the English National Ballet in Swan Lake, receiving approving reviews from English critics.
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Polina Semionova is one of the featured artists on EuroArts DVD "Divine Dancers Live from Prague", in which she dances a pas-de-deux from the ballet "Manon".
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In 2009 Polina Semionova participated with the Berlin State Ballet at which she choreographed with Vladimir Malakhov.
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In 2018 Polina Semionova had appeared in Alexei Ratmansky's La Bayadere.
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In 2018 Polina Semionova had helped The Beautiful Mind Series company to develop a perfume which will come with the smell of fresh fruits like pear and mandarin as well as freesia and white blossom.
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Polina Semionova is married to Mehmet Yumak who is a dancer with the Berlin State Ballet.
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Together they had a baby which was born in January 2017 and for whom Polina Semionova needed to leave and cancel any future performances with ABT.