JULIJA STANKEVIČIŪTĖ

BIOGRAPHY

In 2017 Julija Stankevičiūtė graduated from the Ballet Department of the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts (teacher Beatričė Tomaševičienė). In 2016 she trained with the Ballet du Rihn (France) ballet company and participated in the production of P. Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" (chor. I. Cavallari). In that same year she also trained at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (the Netherlands).

The ballerina participated in international competitions: in Grasse (France) she won gold medal and jury prize for best performance; in 2016 at the Gamar Almaszadeh classical and folk dance competition in Baku (Azerbaijan) she won 1st place and special jury prize. In 2018 during the LNOBT Soloists of the Year Awards, she was named the Ballet Hope of the Year, in 2019 – Ballet Soloist of the Year. For the roles created in 2019 (Woman in Marija Paškevičiūtė's ballet “Days, Minutes” and Eglė in Eduardas Balsys's ballet “Eglė the Queen of Grass Snakes” at the Klaipėda State Musical Theatre), she was awarded the “Golden Cross of the Stage” award. For the role of the First Woman in the ballet “The Rite of Spring” created in 2021, she was again nominated for the “Golden Cross of the Stage”.

As of 2017 Julija Stankevičiūtė has been a member of LNOBT‘s ballet company; in 2018 she became a soloist, and in 2022 – principal soloist. Together with the company she toured Czech Republic, Poland, China.

In LNOBT’s project “Creative Impulse” she created choreographic miniatures “A Lot, Late, Far, Not There” (2019), “Calm down, heart” (2021), “Exit” (2022), “Neither Five nor Nine” (2023). She participates in projects as a dancer and choreographer together with young Lithuanian contemporary dance creators.

Among her roles are Radish (“Cipollino“), Snow White ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"), Pas de trois ("Swan Lake"), Odalisque ("Le corsaire"), Variation Soloist ("Don Quixote"), Marie (“The Nutcracker”), Juliet (“Romeo and Juliet”), Gulnara (“Le Corsaire”), Nikiya (“La Bayadere”), Giselle (“Giselle”), Woman (“Le parc”), Gelsomina (“La Strada”). J Stankevičiūtė participated in M. Rimeikis' productions "Days, Minutes", "Der Prozess", "Eglė the Queen of Grass Snakes" at the Klaipėda Musical Theatre, and elsewhere.