Anna Chekmarova
Ukrainian ballet dancer Anna Chekmarova was born in Zaporizhzhia. She studied at the Serge Lifar Municipal Dance Academy, from which she has obtained a diploma of ensemble artist and dance teacher with honours (2016-2020) and a bachelor’s diploma of ensemble artist, dance teacher and assistant choreographer with honours (2020-2022). From 2020 to 2021 she worked at the Kyiv School of Arts, where she taught classical dance to primary school children.
Since October 2021, she has been a member of the KSMT ballet company. In December of the same year, she debuted as a French dancer in Kirill Simonov’s dance performance based on Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker (2019) and has been performing in the KSMT’s productions, including Eglė’s Sister and the title role in Eduardas Balsys’ ballet Eglė, Queen of the Grass Snakes (chor. Martynas Rimeikis, 2019), duet soloist in Stabat Mater (chor. Edward Clug, 2021), Doña Quixote and soloist in the triptych of dance performances of the same name (Part 1, chor. Daria Verovka; Part 3, chor. Gaj Žmavc, 2022), Baroness Rainakienė in In the Shadow of the Altars (chor. Aurelijus Liškauskas, 2014), soloist in On Dreams and Cacti (chor. Robert Bondara and Alexander Ekman, 2023).
She was nominated for the Golden Cross of the Stage for the role of Doña Quixote as the best dancer of 2022. At the KSMT’s 2024 Catch the Wave Awards, she won the Ballet Artist of the Year Award as soloist in On Dreams and Cacti, as well as for the title role in Eglė, Queen of the Grass Snakes, and the role of Auksė in In the Shadows of the Altars.
