Choreographer
Anželika Cholina is one of the most prominent Lithuanian choreographers, Associate Professor at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, founder of A|CH theatre.
In 2011 Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the director and choreographer with Knight’s Order for Merits to Lithuania.
In 2016 she was awarded with the main state prize to the cultural work in Lithuania ‘Carry your Light and Believe’.
In 1989 Cholina graduated from Vilnius Ballet School and in 1996 she graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) as a director-choreographer. Her choreographic debut was ballet in two acts, “Medea” (1996) – awarded Saint Christopher prize for choreography. She was also awarded prestigious Golden Cross of the Stage for the best choreography twice (“Othello” 2006, “Anna Karenina” 2011).
Anželika Cholina has staged over 40 works: dance performances, ballets, musicals, operetta and operas, more than 100 choreographic miniatures. She is a choreography director of several episodes of "Warner Brothers" and “NetworkUSA” movies.
Modern choreography miniatures staged by Anželika Cholina for 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.
Golden Stage Cross
Award "Carry your light and believe"
Experience
Cholina’s dance performances are exceptional with intertwining elements of classical ballet, modern dance and acting. According to the choreographer, the means of expression and the choice of dancers and actors depend only on the performance theme. And their range is truly wide, varying from ancient dramas and productions of world literature classics to choreographic improvisations inspired by Argentinian tango or Lithuanian folk music.
Choreographer is invited to work in various theaters in Lithuania and abroad. She staged ballets “Medea” and “Barbora Radvilaitė” at Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre; dance performances “Songs of Women”, “Carmen”, “The House of Bernarda Alba” at Lithuanian National Drama Theatre; operetta in two parts “Madame Pompadour” at Kaunas State Musical Theatre.
Since 2008 Cholina collaborates with prestigious Moscow State Academic E. Vakhtangov Theatre, where she created dance performances “The Coast of Women”, “Anna Karenina”, “Otello”, "Men and women" and choreography for “Eugene Onegin”, "Minetti" directed by Rimas Tuminas.
Since 2016 choreographer invited to work in Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. First performances created together with director Rimas Tuminas - opera "Katerina Izmailova" and "Queen of Spades".