Marina Ushenina was born in Artyomovsky, Sverdlovsk Region. She graduated from the Perm State Choreographic School (class of Nadezhda Vladimirovna Stebletsova) in 2022.
In 2020, she studied at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi. In 2021, she participated in an outdoor Class Concert dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of Lyudmila Pavlovna Sakharova.
Since July 2022, Marina Ushenina has been an artist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
The Nutcracker (Mice, Snowflakes, Waltz of Flowers); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
The Sleeping Beauty (Suite Lilac Fairy, Court Ladies, Waltz, the Nereids, Mazurka); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev and Eldar Aliev,
Swan Lake (Court Ladies, Swans, Hungarian Dance); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Don Quixote (Dream, Seguidilla, Fandango); choreography by Alexander Gorsky based after Marius Petipa,
Raymonda (Countess’s Retinue, Girls in the Dream Scene, Saracen Dance, Hungarian Dance); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev and Eldar Aliev,
A Thousand and One Nights (Orgy, Mourning, Final); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
The Firebird (Girls in Love); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
Phaedra (Women); choreography by Flemming Flindt,
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Firebirds, Sea Girls).