Arina Nagase


Upcoming performances:
29 March 2024
7 April 2024
13 April 2024
25 April 2024
  • Silver medal at the Classical Youth Ballet Competition (Shizuoka, Japan, 2007)
  • Secondary School Ballet Competition (Machida, Japan, 2008)
  • The Audience Prize and the red ribbon at the XVI Spring Ballet Festival of the NBA Ballet Company (Tokyo, Japan, 2010)
  • Gold medal at the National Korean Ballet Competition (South Korea, 2011)

Arina Nagase was born in Japan and graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, where she studied with Luidmila Kovaleva, Vadim Desnitsky, and Valery Sergeev. 

Took part in a tour in Harbin (The People’s Republic of China), Seoul (South Korea), Doha (Qatar), Vladikavkaz and at the Mariinsky Theatre (St Petersburg) as a member of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage.

Since 2013, she has been a soloist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre.

In 2016 she became a soloist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since May 2023 she has been a first soloist.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Don Quixote (Kitri, Flower-Seller, Amour); choreography by Alexander Gorsky based after Marius Petipa,
Swan Lake (Prince’s Friends, Little swans, Brides, Two Swans, Four Swans, Neapolitan Dance); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine, The Generous Fairy, Cinderella); choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev and Eldar Aliev,
La Bayadère (Gamzatti, Trio of Shades, Manu); choreography by Marius Petipa revised by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Le Corsaire (Medora, Gulnara); choreography by Eldar Aliev (using fragments of Marius Petipa’s choreography),
The Nutcracker (The Sugar Plum Fairy, Masha, Chinese dance); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
Giselle (Giselle, Monna, Zulma, Pas de deux); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa,
The Firebird (Firebird, bird’s flight); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
A Thousand and One Nights (Scheherezade); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
Raymonda (Henrietta, Dream); choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev and Eldar Aliev,
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Wet-Nurses),
Daphnis et Chloé (Licaenion); choreography by Dmitry Pimonov,
In the Jungle (Gurri); choreography by Anton Pimonov.
George Balanchine’s ballets: Scotch Symphony, Apollo (Polyhymnia), Serenade (soloist, four soloists).

Concert numbers:
Grand pas de deux Carnevale di Venezia from Satanella (soloist); choreography by Marius Petipa,
Inspiration (Four Soloists); choreography by Eldar Aliev.

Repertoire also includes:
Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Pas de deux, variation); choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeev,
The Nutcracker (Clara, Pas de deux); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov,
La Sylphide (the Sylph, Pas de deux); choreography by August Bournonville,
Don Quixote (Pas de deux); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
The Stars and Stripes (Pas de deux).

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