Evgeniya Victory Gonzalez

Biography

Tall, alabaster-delicate yet steeled by Russian training and Scandinavian discipline, Evgeniya seems to pause time with every silken port de bras. Born in St Petersburg, she grew up in Sweden and graduated from the Royal Swedish Ballet School in 2015, already dancing the title Giselle on the Stockholm Opera stage. Her first international accolade was the gold medal at Jeune Ballet Méditerranéen in Grasse (2014).

At eighteen she joined the Mariinsky Theatre, flowering into roles such as the Dryad Queen (Don Quixote), fiery Gamzatti (La Bayadère), gentle Moyna and Zulma (Giselle) and the Spanish Dance in Neumeier’s Nutcracker. A season with Bavarian State Ballet broadened her contemporary range in Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Zvereva’s Labyrinth.

She entered the Czech National Ballet in 2019 as a demi-soloist and was promoted to soloist in April 2021. Prague has applauded her lyrical Odette/Odile, sparkling Sapphire in The Sleeping Beauty, nostalgic *Fairy of Christmas and poetic *Clara in Vámos’s Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol. As Tatiana in Cranko’s Onegin she melds restraint and passion, while Forsythe’s The Second Detail, Kylián’s Petite Mort and van Manen’s Frank Bridge Variations reveal her modern edge.

Galas from Moscow to Tallinn and the 2021 video-art Ballet among Paintings: Rembrandt and Saskia attest to an artist who, in her own words, “wants to let the audience inhale beauty before the final beat fades.”

Classical Repertoire

• Coppélia – Work, Prayer – Solo (Ronald Hynd)

• Giselle – Mona, Zulma (Marius Petipa)

• The Nutcracker – A Christmas Story – Mrs. Cratchit, Clara Cratchit, Christmas Fairy, Clara in a Dream, Waltz – Solo (Youri Vámos)

• La Sylphide – Fairies – Solo (Johan Kobborg)

• The Sleeping Beauty – Ruby, Lilac Fairy, Fairy of Wisdom, Fairy of Strength, Nymph, Waltz (Márcia Haydée)

• Swan Lake – Odette/Odile, Leading Swans, Pas de Six (John Cranko)

Contemporary and Neoclassical Repertoire

• Beyond Vibrations – Moving Rooms (Krzysztof Pastor), Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)

• bpm – Bill (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

• Cinderella – Stepmother (Jean-Christophe Maillot)

• Dance On... The Second Detail (open stage rehearsal) (William Forsythe)

• Forsythe / Clug / McGregor – The Second Detail (William Forsythe), EDEN | EDEN (Wayne McGregor)

• Kylián – Bridges of Time – Petite Mort (Jiří Kylián)

• Leonce & Lena – Governess (Christian Spuck)

• Onegin – Tatiana (John Cranko)

• Romeo and Juliet – Juliet (John Cranko)

• Scheherazade – The King’s Last Victim (Mauro Bigonzetti)

• A Streetcar Named Desire – Blanche DuBois (John Neumeier)

• Timeless – Serenade - Russian Girl (George Balanchine)