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Maria Eichwald
Lead Dancer
Maria
was born in Talgar,
Kazakhstan, and received her training at the Ballet Academy in Alma- Ata,
Kazakhstan. She had her first engagement at the National Ballet in
Kazakhstan. In 1994, she became a Principal Dancer in Mönchengladbach, and
in 1996, she joined the Bavarian State in Munich, where she was quickly
promoted from Corps de ballet dancer to Soloist.
In her first season
in Munich, she danced solo roles as Olga in Onegin, the second
movement in Symphony in C (Balanchine), the blue bird in
Sleeping Beauty. As a Soloist, she was dancing the role of Olympia in
the premier of the Lady of the Camelias (John Neumeier) and soon
made her début in the leading role. In March 1998, she danced as Nikija in
the second premier of La Bayadére and later on as Helena in John
Neumeier's Midsummer Night's Dream, and as Odette/ Odile in Swan
Lake. She was promoted to Principal dancer in summer 1999.
Maria Eichwald joined
the Stuttgart Ballet in the 2003/ 04 as Principal Dancer and has since
danced leading roles in works such as Giselle, a production of Reid
Anderson and Valentina Savina, and in Itzik Galili's Hikarizatto.
Eichwald has danced
in various international galas and festivals in Spain, Italy,
Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, China, India, Cuba and Denmark.
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