Daria Lazucová

Biography

Born in Chișinău, Moldova, she stepped into the world of dance almost as soon as she could walk. Between 1999 and 2006 the State Ballet Conservatoire in Chișinău nurtured her innate musicality: Giselle’s romantic variations, Paquita’s sparkling bravura and the lyrical Adagio from Spartacus all revealed a fledgling artist able to blend crystalline technique with unaffected grace. A school tour of Spain (2005 – 2006) brought her first taste of the professional stage in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Don Quixote, while two formative years at the celebrated Ballet Conservatoire in Perm (2006 – 2008) polished her classical line to Russian‐cut brilliance.

She arrived in Prague in the 2008/2009 season, joining the State Opera Ballet. Audiences discovered her as the youngest Tsar’s daughter Marie in The Sleeping Beauty, as the spirited Flower‐seller in Don Quixote, in the Pas de Trois and the fluting dance of the Little Swans in John Cranko’s Swan Lake, and as the Wedding Couple in Adam’s Giselle.

Since 2012 she has danced with the Czech National Ballet as a demi-soloist, bringing a silvery lyrical quality and unfailing stage instinct to every production.

In the classical canon she draws an elegant arc from the Temple Dancer in Javier Torres’s La Bayadère through the porcelain Doll and rosy Dawn of Ronald Hynd’s Coppélia, the sparkling Flower-seller and mischievous Cupid of Don Quixote, the tightly braided Little Swans and elusive Pas de quatre of Cranko’s Swan Lake, to the clockwork Columbine in Youri Vámos’s The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol. She colours Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet with commedia-dell’arte vivacity as the Lady Acrobat and adds turquoise shimmer as Princess Florine in Márcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty.

Contemporary stages offer her a vibrant palette: she illuminates Balanchine’s Theme and Variations in Americana III, flows through Krzysztof Pastor’s tectonic Moving Rooms, spins rococo irony in Jiří Kylián’s Six Dances and glows midnight-blue as the Russian Girl in Balanchine’s Serenade (Timeless). Educational matinées find her again as the clockwork Columbine, while Viktor Konvalinka’s fairy-tale ballet The Sun-Bearer, Moon-Bearer and Wind-Bearer sees her weave the enchanted forest’s choral tapestry.

From the swirling skirts of folk dance to the neon lines of new choreography, her artistry remains a graceful bridge between tradition and today — inviting audiences to feel that ballet can tell human stories without ever uttering a word.

Classical Repertoire

• La Bayadère – Temple Dancer (Javier Torres)

• Coppélia – Doll, Dawn (Ronald Hynd)

• Don Quixote – Flower Girl, Amor (Marius Petipa)

• The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story – Columbine (Youri Vámos)

• Romeo and Juliet – Female Jester (John Cranko)

• Swan Lake – Little Swans, Pas de quatre (John Cranko)

• The Sleeping Beauty – Princess Florina (Márcia Haydée)

Contemporary and Neoclassical Repertoire

• Amerikana III – Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)

• Beyond Vibrations – Moving Rooms (Krzysztof Pastor)

• Cinderella – Ball Guests (Jean-Christophe Maillot)

• Dance On... The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story (open stage rehearsal) – Columbine (Youri Vámos)

• Daria Klimentová: Thank you! – Flower Girls (Don Quixote Suite) (Marius Petipa)

• Kaňkou Back to the Fairytale (Terpsichoré Ballet School) – Guest performance

• Kylián – Bridges of Time – Six Dances (Jiří Kylián)

• The Sun, the Moon, and the Wind – Corps (Viktor Kovalinka)

• Timeless – Serenade – Russian Girls (George Balanchine)