{"id":14709,"date":"2026-07-17T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/maria-kochetkova\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:32","slug":"maria-kochetkova","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/team\/maria-kochetkova\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Kochetkova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Born in Moscow, Russia, Maria Kochetkova trained at the Bolshoi School in Moscow and danced with The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet before joining San Francisco Ballet as a Principal Dancer in 2007 and becoming Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Kochetkova\u2019s highlighted repertoire includes Nikiya in\u00a0<em>La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em>, Kitri in\u00a0<em>Don Quixote<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Swan Lake<\/em>\u00a0with American Ballet Theatre as well as McGregor\u2019s\u00a0<em>Borderlands.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Kochetkova was nominated for the UK Critics\u2019 Circle Dance Award Best Female Dancer in 2014 and a Prix Benois de la Danse for her performance as Tatiana in Cranko\u2019s\u00a0<em>Onegin<\/em>\u00a0in 2013. In 2009, she was awarded the gold medal on National Broadcasting Company\u2019s\u00a0<em>Superstars of Dance<\/em>. She also won many international ballet competitions, including \u201cBallerina of the Year\u201d award at Positano Premia La Danza &#8220;L\u00e9onide Massine&#8221; in 2017, a silver medal and the jury prize at Varna International Ballet Competition and a silver medal at the Prix de Lausanne competition in 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Photographer: Chris Hardy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14709","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}