Galina Stepanenko was born in Moscow in 1966. She graduated from the Moscow Ballet School (class of Sofia Golovkina) and joined the Moscow Classical Ballet where she danced from 1984-1988.
In 1988 she joined the Stanislavsky Ballet and two years later she was invited to become a member of the Bolshoi Ballet. At the Bolshoi she has studied for Marina Semyonova and is now coached by Raisa Struchkova.
Repertoire includes: Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), La Bayadere (Nikiya and Gamzatti), Don Quixote (Kitri), Le Corsaire (Medora), Spartacus (Aegina) and title roles in Giselle, Raymonda, La Sylphide and Anyuta.
Awards:
The Leningrad Choreography Prize at the Competition of Russian Ballet Artists (1984).
Gold medal Moscow International Ballet Competition (1989).
The Benois de la Dance prize (1995).
The Danza-Danza Magazine prize (1995).
People's Artist of Russia.
