Artists – Principals

Lilia Orekhova
Prima Ballerina
Lilia Orekhova graduated from the Donetsk Choreographic Institute in 2004. After graduating Lilia was invited to Donetsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet. In 2008 Lilia has joined Moscow City Ballet as a principal dancer. Her repertoire includes Odetta/Odile in the Swan Lake, Princess Aurora and Princess Florina in Sleeping Beauty, Flower Fairy in the Nutcracker and many other roles.

Rachel Victoria Hernon
Prima Ballerina
Rachel Victoria Hernon graduated from the Perm State Choreographic Academy, Russia in 2009 from the class of Elena Vladimirovna Bystritskaya.
Rachel Joined The Moscow City Ballet since 2019 as a Principal Ballerina and is also currently Principal Ballerina with The Worldwide Ballet company and other international companies.
She is formerly principal dancer of Varna State Opera where, In 2024 she was awarded a Diploma from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture for her outstanding performance.
Rachel was a principal dancer with Vienna Festival Ballet, Theatre of Sibiu and performed soloist roles with Romanian National Opera Bucharest.
Her Leading Ballerina roles include; “Odette/Odile” – Swan Lake, “Aurora” – The Sleeping Beauty, “Juliet” – Romeo & Juliet, Giselle – title role, “Medora” Le Corsaire, “Marie/Sugar Plum Fairy” The Nutcracker to name but a few.

Mykhailo Tkachuk
Premiere
Michael Tkachuk was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. He graduated from the Kiev State Choreographic Institute in 2008. From 2008 till 2011 Michael worked as a soloist at the State Academy Theatre of Leonid Jacobson in St. Petersburg. In 2012 he was invited to join the Eifman Ballet Theatre and a year later he became the principal dancer at the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre, where he performed a number of leading roles. From 2016 onwards, Michael was performing as a guest star with many leading ballet companies in Russia and CIS. In 2019 he joined Moscow City Ballet as principal dancer. His repertoire includes, amongst many other roles, Prince Siegfried in The Swan Lake, Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker, Prince Desire and Basil in Don Quixote.
Sergei Skvortsov
Principal

Ksenia Basnet
Principal
Ksenia was born in 1997 in the town of Mozhaisk, Russia. From 2008 to 2013 she studied at the Moscow state Academy of Choreography, then studied for three more years at the Moscow State school. Lavrovsky. Since 2016 he has been working at the Smirnov Ballet Theatre. She performs the leading roles in the ballets “the Nutcracker” and “Romeo and Juliet”, as well as roles: Fairy Daisy in the ballet “the Nutcracker”, Pas de Trois, Little swans, brides In “Swan lake”, Fairy Canary, Diamond, Large maids of honor in “Sleeping Beauty”, Kitri’s Friends in “Don Quixote” and The pas de Deux in the ballet “Giselle”.

Dmitry Lazovik
Premiere
Dmitry Lazovik was born in 1991 in Slutsk, Belarus. After graduating from the Belorus State Choreographic Gymnasium College in 2011, Dmitry was invited to join Belarus State Academic Musical Theatre as a principal dancer. He performed in many leading roles including Albert and Pad De Deux in “Giselle”, Basil in “Don Quixote”, Gray in “Asolle”, Sinbad in “Scheherazade”, Pas De Deux in ballets “Diana and Akteon”, “Coppelia” and many others.
In 2011 Dmitry received the Diploma of the International Ballet Competition “Crystal Slipper”. In 2014, he became laureate of the 2nd International Baltic competition and also received award for his contribution to the art by the Minsk City Council.
In 2015 Dmitry was invited to perform with Moscow City Ballet as a principal dancer. His repertoire includes roles of Nutcracker Prince in “Nutcracker”, Prince Desire and Bluebird in the “Sleeping Beauty”, Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet”, Basil in “Don Quixote, Pas De Trois in “Swan Lake” and Pas De Deux in “Giselle”.

Ksenia Stankevich
Principal
Ksenia was born in 1995 in Minsk, Belarus. She has starter her training in 2005 at Belarus State Choreographic Gymnasium College. In 2012 Ksenia received the Diploma of the International Ballet Competition in Paris – “Le Chausson D’or”.
After graduating in 2013 she has joined the Belarus State Academy Musical Theatre, where she excelled in such roles as Myrtha and Pas De Deux in “Giselle”, Clara, Russian and French dances in the “Nutcracker”, as well as many other solo roles in “Don Quixote”, “La Corsair” and “Harlequinade”.
In 2015 Ksenia joined Moscow City Ballet, where she performs as Clara in the “Nutcracker”, Pas De Trois and Brides in the “Swan Lake”, Winter Fairy in “Cinderella” and many other solo roles.