Maia Makhateli
In short
joined Dutch National Ballet 2007
birth place Tblisi (Georgia)
career with Dutch National Ballet
principal (october 2010),
second soloist (2009),
grand sujet (2007)
previously danced with
San Valley Ballet School (Idaho, USA)
Colorado Ballet (Colorado, USA)
Birmingham Royal Ballet (Birmingham, Uniteed Kingdom)
training Tblisi Choreographic Institute of Cabukiani (Tbilisi, Georgia)
awards
2001, International Ballet Festival, 'diplomat' (Kazan, Russia),
2001, Awarded at the first Chabukiani-Balanchine International Ballet Competition,
2002, Youth America Grand Prix Competition, 2nd,
2002, Denver Ballet Guild's Young Dancer's competition 2002 1st, (Denver, USA),
2002, Youth American Grand Prix, finalist (New York, USA)
biography
Maia Makhateli (Tbilisi, Georgia) comes from a real dance family. Her father runs a ballet school in the United States and her brother is a principal with the Royal Ballet, in England. Maia began her dance training at the Cabukiana Choreographic Institute in her hometown. When she was sixteen, she left with her parents for the United States, where she trained at the San Valley Ballet School in Idaho, following which she danced for four years with Colorado Ballet. In 2006, she switched to Birmingham Royal Ballet, but she found England ‘too cold and grey’ and auditioned for the Dutch National Ballet, where she started as a grand sujet in 2007. In 2009, she was promoted to soloist and a year later to principal. Maia has won several ballet awards in the United States. In her homeland Georgia, in 2011, she received the Nina Ananiashvili & Gilbert Albert Star Award, which was established by the Georgian prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili and a Swiss jeweller.
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