VITA
Yana Peneva grew up in Orlando, Florida (USA). At the age of 3 years, she started dancing at the Orlando Ballet School. At the age of 12, she began her pre-professional ballet training in the Ballet Conservatory at Skyra, Florida. During this time she successfully participated in several competitions. In 2021 at the YAGP Finals, she was awarded the Shelley King Award for Excellence. Also in 2021, she won the Gold Medal at the Youth International Ballet Competition (ADCIBC). In 2022 she won the Grand Prix Award at the YAGP Regional Tampa, Florida, and Top 12 at the YAGP Finals. She was a selected candidate twice for the Prix de Lausanne.
In 2022 she moved to Stuttgart to continue her training at the John Cranko School, from which she graduated in summer 2024. During the 50th anniversary of the Prix de Lausanne in 2023 she represented the John Cranko School as the lead role in Goyo Montero’s Choreographic Project Bold.
During the past few years, she performed in numerous galas worldwide: at the YAGP Nervi International Dance Festival in Genoa, Italy (2021, 2022, 2024), at YAGP Mexico’s 10th Anniversary Festival in Orizaba, Mexico (2021), at YAGP Finals “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala” in USA (2022), the YAGP Tampa regionals “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala” (2024), the DAP Festival in Pietrasanta, Italy (2024), and the YAGP Sicily Gala (2024).
In the 2024/2025 season Yana Peneva became a member of Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet.
In 2022 she moved to Stuttgart to continue her training at the John Cranko School, from which she graduated in summer 2024. During the 50th anniversary of the Prix de Lausanne in 2023 she represented the John Cranko School as the lead role in Goyo Montero’s Choreographic Project Bold.
During the past few years, she performed in numerous galas worldwide: at the YAGP Nervi International Dance Festival in Genoa, Italy (2021, 2022, 2024), at YAGP Mexico’s 10th Anniversary Festival in Orizaba, Mexico (2021), at YAGP Finals “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala” in USA (2022), the YAGP Tampa regionals “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala” (2024), the DAP Festival in Pietrasanta, Italy (2024), and the YAGP Sicily Gala (2024).
In the 2024/2025 season Yana Peneva became a member of Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet.
REPERTOIRE
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
Specially created Roles
Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
Roles as a student
- Kingdom of Shades, from: La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Nutcracker (Edward Clug)
- The Place of Choice (Roman Novitzky)
Specially created Roles
- Bold (Goyo Montero)
- Fantasie Impromptu (Carlos Strasser)
- Illuminescenti (Maria Konrad)
- Maestro (Maria Konrad)
- Nekhbet (Maria Konrad)
- Present in Absence (Alice McArthur)
Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
- Zwischen Wind und Asphalt (Carlos Strasser)
Roles as a student
- Awakening of Flora (Marius Petipa): Flora’s Variation
- Diana and Actaeon (Agrippina Vaganova): Variation
- Don Quixote (Marius Petipa): The Queen of the Dryads Variation in Act 2
- Giselle (Jean Coralli/ Jules Perrot): Giselle’s Variation in Act 1
- La Esmeralda (Marius Petipa): Esmeralda’s Variation in Act 2
- La Nascita di Venere (Emanuele Babici): Nymph
- Le Corsaire (Marius Petipa): Medora’s Variation in Act 3
- Paquita (Marius Petipa): Etoile Variation
- Raymonda (Marius Petipa): Dream Variation in Act 1
- Shimmer Simmer (Kinsun Chan)
- Swan Lake (Marius Petipa): Pas de deux 3rd Act Black Swan
- Terra Nova (Maria Konrad): Variation
- The Nutcracker (Lev Ivanov): Sugar Plum Pas de deux, Dewdrop Fairy, Dance of the
- Snowflakes
- The Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa): Lilac Fairy Variation
- Walpurgish Night Variation (Leonid Lavrovsky)
