Commonwealth Ballet 2007 Guest Artists
Anna Liceica
Ms. Liceica, who joined American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet in 1996, began training in her native Bucharest, Romania at the National Ballet School. She later studied with Yvonne Mounsey at the Westside School of Ballet in Los Angeles and at the School of American Ballet in New York City, where she received the Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise. A prize winner at the Romanian National Ballet Competition, the Third Nureyev International Ballet Competition, and Maya Plisetskaya International Ballet Competition, Anna danced with New York City Ballet in 1994 and 1995. She has also appeared as a guest artist with companies in the United States, Brazil, Japan, Russia and Hungary, and with New York City Opera. Anna was promoted to Soloist in August 2000. Her roles with the Company include a Shade in La Bayadère, the Winter Fairy in Cinderella, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, the Russian Ballerina in Gala Performance, Moyna in Giselle, the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Silver in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois in Swan Lake, the fourth movement in Symphony in C and the Venetian Carnival Pas de Deux from Satanella. She created a leading role in Mark Morris' Gong. Most recent, Ms Liceica has performed with the Berlin Opera and the Rumanian National Opera. Morris' Gong. Most recent, Ms Liceica has performed with the Berlin Anna will perform the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Commonwealth Ballet's 2007 production of The Nutcracker.
Vitali Krauchenka
Born in Minsk in the Republic of Belorussia, Vitali Krauchenka trained at the Belorussian Choreographic School and performed with the Belorussian Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He danced with the Latvian National Opera before joining the Atlantic Ballet of Canada. His repertory included roles in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet, and other classical and modern ballets such as Carmen, Le Sacre du Printemps and 3x. Vitali joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2004. He dances the role of the Cavalier in CBC's The Nutcracker.