Cholina
In 1989 Anželika Cholina graduated from Vilnius Ballet School, in 1996 — from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) as a choreography director (O. Tarasova course).
Her choreographic debut was a ballet in two acts, Medea (1996). The performance was awarded with Saint Christopher prize for choreography.
Anželika Cholina was awarded with The Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Lithuania ‘Golden Cross of the Stage’ prize for the best choreography twice (Othello in 2006 and Anna Karenina in 2010).
In 2000 she founded the Dance Theatre of Angelica Cholina A|CH.
Anželika Cholina has staged 15 dance performances, two ballets, one musical and one operetta and more than 100 choreographic miniatures. She is a choreography director of several episodes of Warner Brothers operas and movies.
Anželika Cholina is Associate Professor at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Modern choreography miniatures staged by Anželika Cholina and her students in Vilnius Ballet School and in Munich Dance Academy were awarded with Grand-prix and golden medals of international ballet competitions in Lausanne, Varna, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, New-York, Stockholm, Munich and Helsinki.
Since 2008 Anželika Cholina collaborates with Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia. The choreography shows by Angelica Cholina in the Vakhtangov Theatre at the moment are: The Coast of Women (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), Othello (2013), Men and women, or Scripts of human life (2015). Angelica Cholina took part as a choreography director in Eugene Onegin (2013) and Minetty (2015), Oedipus the King (2016), the Vakhtangov Theatre performances staged by Rimas Tuminas.
She debuted as a choreographer at the Bolshoi Theatre with Katerina Izmailova by Dmitri Shostakovich in 2016 (conductor: Tugan Sokhiev, director: Rimas Tuminas).
Together with director Rimas Tuminas she worked on Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky and Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók for the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.