Irina Perren
Honoured Artist of Russia
Principal Dancer of the Mikhailovsky Theatre
Dance Open: 2012, 2016
Born in 1980 in Leningrad, in 1998 she graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy. The same year joined the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Her professional awards include gold medals at the Rieti International Ballet Competition (2002) and Arabesque International Competition in Perm (2002), St. Petersburg’s theatre highest award Golden Soffit in the category Best Female Ballet Role for Medora in Le Corsaire (2009). In 2010 she won an award Soul of Dance by the Ballet Magazine (category «Star»).