Critics and ballet lovers call Christina Aleksandrovna Kretova the heiress of Galina Ulanova herself. What distinguishes her from modern dancers is that she literally lives and breathes her profession, despite the fact that once teachers doubted her data.
Kretova Kristina is the prima of the Bolshoi Theater, a member of the jury of television dance competitions, the winner of one of them, during which the participants showed a kind of symbiosis of classical ballet and modern choreography. The path to success for Christina was not easy, she had to go through her own doubts and doubts of teachers. In addition, she successfully combines the role of a loving wife and mother with the career of a ballerina.
Biography of the ballerina Kristina Kretova
The future star of Russian ballet was born in Orel, at the end of January 1984. The girl took up classical dancing at the age of 6, and at 7 she entered not only a secondary school, but also a choreography school in the class of ballet dancing.
Despite the fact that the teachers of the choreographic school did not see the data for the girl's success, Christina's mother decided to support her, as she saw that her daughter was living with ballet, daydreaming about it and intending to achieve high results.
When Kristina was 10 years old, she and her mother moved to Moscow, where she entered the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and became a student of the best teachers from the world of ballet: Marina Leonova, Lyudmila Kolenchenko and Elena Bobrova.
Career of the ballerina Kristina Aleksandrovna Kretova
After graduating from the Academy of Choreography in Moscow, Christina joined the troupe of the Kremlin Ballet Theater. Very soon, the girl became a leading ballerina, she outplayed almost all the roles of the classical type.
In less than 15 years, she managed to collect participation in such performances as
- "Giselle"
- "Swan Lake",
- "Pharaoh's daughter"
- "The Taming of the Shrew",
- "Sleeping Beauty",
- "Stone Flower".
Kristina Kretova manages to cooperate with several theaters at once. She performed as a soloist not only at the Kremlin Theater, but also at the Musa Jalil Tatar Theater, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, the Bolshoi Theater, the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater.
Christina takes part in dance-related television projects with pleasure. In 2011, she participated in the Bolero project, where her partner was Leonid Yagudin. The couple became the winner of the show. In addition, she acted as a member of the jury of dance competitions on two TV channels - TNT and NTV.
Personal life of the ballerina Kretova Christina
Christina categorically refuses to discuss her personal life with journalists. It is known that she is married, in 2009 she had a son, and he was given the Muslim name Isa.
Who is the husband of Kretova Christina and what his name is - no one knows. All that the ballerina allows herself to talk about in an interview is that she is happy, mutual understanding and mutual respect reign in her family.
