Maria Eichwald

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kazakhstan, in Talgar
EDUCATION: National Ballet School in Alma-Ata

ENGAGEMENTS:
Freelance Principal Dancer 2012 – Present
Stuttgart Ballet Principal Dancer 2004 – 2012
Bavarian State Ballet Munich Principal Dancer 1999 – 2004
Bavarian State Ballet Munich Soloist 1996 -1999
Theatre Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Soloist 1994 -1996
National Ballet of Kazakhstan Principal Dancer 1992-1994
Guest Teatro la Scala, Staatsballet Berlin
Teacher at John Cranko Ballet School, Stuttgart

COMPETITIONS, AWARDS:
2014 Dancer of the year in the critics choice of the magazine “Tanz”
2012 in St Petersburg ” Ms Expressivity”
2012 Dancer of the Year in the magazine Danza e Danza
2010, 2011 and 2012 Dancer of the Year at Dance Europe magazine
2002 Nominated for the Prix de benois

REPERTORY:
Tatjana in Onegin
The female title role in Romeo and Juliet
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (all: John Cranko)
Nikija in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Kitri in Don Quijote (Ray barra after Marius Petipa)
Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Marguerite Gautier in The Lady of the Camellias
Title roles in A Cinderella Story (all: John Neumeier)
Raymonda, Giselle (Peter Wright after Marius Petipa)
Manon (Kenneth MacMillan)
Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
The title role in Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
Aurora and the Blue Bird’s Princess in The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier)
A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
Solo roles in The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations, Serenade (all: George Balanchine)
The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz)
Voluntaries (Glen Tetley)
Hikarizatto (Itzik Galili)
Forgotten Land and Return to a strange Land (Jiří Kylián)