UMBETKULOVA Zaure Kenisovna

Biography

(20.09.1968, Alma-Ata) – ballet dancer, teacher-tutor. Owner of the State Award “Eren Enbegi Ushin” (2017).

1978-1986 – student of the A.V. Seleznev M.V. Petrova ACS, class of M.V. Petrova. 1994-1998 – student of KazSWPI, specialty “Teacher-choreographer”. 2012-2014 – professional retraining courses at the S. N. Golovkina Moscow State Academy of Dance.

1986-2005 – dancer and soloist of the ballet at the Abay SAOBT. Repertoire: big swans, Spanish dance (“Swan Lake”); Black Wife, Krakowiak (“The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”); Mercedes, Gypsy dance (“Don Quixote”); solo in a number of opera performances; concert numbers: “Swan” to the music by C. Saint-Saens, “Baba Yaga” by A. Dargomyzhsky.

2005-2009 – teacher-tutor of the K. Baiseitova NOBT.

2006-2010 – teacher of classical dance at the branch of the A. V. Seleznev ACS in Astana; teacher-tutor in the folk dance ensemble “Shalkyma” of the Astana State Philharmonic, as well as at the “Renaissance” Dance School.

2013-2015 – teacher-tutor, 2015- 2023 – head of the ballet troupe of the “Astana Ballet” Theater and classical dance teacher of the Kazakh National Academy of Choreography.

Awards: “Madeniet salasynyn uzdigi” (2021).