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President’s state award

Irina Rubtsova, a soloist of the Russian National Ballet “Kostroma”, received a letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation “For the merits to the native culture”

Irina Rubtsova is a soloist and a coach of the Russian National Ballet “Kostroma”. She graduated from Samara State Academy of Culture and Art as a choreographer, a ballet master and a teacher. Her work experience is more than 20 years.

Her work is highly professional and characterized by the feeling of responsibility before herself, the stage and the audience. Irina has rather a valuable quality – striving for harmony. Tinkering at the margins is not her habit when it comes to her work. Her actions are considered, moves are accurate and the manner is justified. She fills her stage images with fragile breath of life when dancing. Irina Rubtsova’s attitude and personal example create artful atmosphere for the Ballet’s team thus making her colleagues and young artists grow and perfect themselves, too.

Irina Rubtsova has been the leading teacher for the main special subject called “Folk stage dancing” in “The Governorate School of Ballet” (College) at the Russian National Ballet “Kostroma”. Irina Rubtsova has made an invaluable contribution to developing the methodology of folk stage-dancing and to developing the academic base of the College in particular.

She has dedicated her life to the art of dance, to preserving and developing the traditional folk culture. Being a soloist of the Ballet, she performed the leading parts in choreographic performances “Once Upon a Time”, “Back Home with Victory!”, “Great Mysterious Rus” and “The  Russian National Dance Show “Kostroma”. She proved to be able to do the toughest technical elements, for example, spins and supports, in “The Fast One” (“Bystrinochka”), “Fleet Dance”, “Hello, the Country of Heroes!”, “Kundyubochka”, “Winter” and “Celebratory one”. Irina Rubtsova made great personifications of an eccentric lady in “Vohomskaya Izbovaya”, a spoilt young lady in “Podarochnaya”, a fragile girl from the School for Noble Maidens in “Gusarskaya Molodetskaya”, an eastern tsaritsa in the prologue “Rus the Primary”, a modern girl in “Hello, the Country of Heroes!”, a charming Kazak girl in “Kundyubochka” and a young girl seeing off her beloved to the service in “The Touch of Sadness” (“Grustinochka”).