Recipient of the Francysk Skaryna Medal (2014)
Anna Fokina was born in Minsk. She graduated from the Belarusian State Choreographic College. In 2002, she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Nikita Dolgushin’s studio) where she had majored in ballet directing and teaching.
From 1996 to 2002, Fokina was a soloist of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 2002, she joined the Mussorgsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mikhailovsky Theatre) in St. Petersburg.
Anna Fokina joined the ballet company of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus in 2008.
In 2024 she was appointed manager of the ballet company.
White-haired Solveig, Solveig’s mother / Peer Gynt
Dolly, Betsy / Anna Karenina to Pyotr Tchaikovsky's music
Gamzatti / La Bayadère
Maria, Zarema / The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
Anna / Passions (Rogneda) (choreography by Valentin Elizariev)
Princess Florine, the Lilac Fairy / The Sleeping Beauty
Giselle, Myrtha, Bathilde / Giselle
French Dance / The Nutcracker (choreography by Valentin Elizariev)
Snow White / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (choreography by Natalia Furman)
7th waltz, prelude, 11th waltz, Mazurka / Chopiniana
Magnolia / Cipollino
Juliet / Romeo and Juliet (choreography by Valentin Elizariev)
The Shrew / Cinderella (choreography by Yury Puzakov)
Fleur de Lys / La Esmeralda
Pas de trois / Swan Lake
The title role, Effie / La Sylphide
Isolde / Tristan and Isolde
Waltz / Serenade
Grahn, Grisi / Pas de Quatre
The Beautiful Tsarevna / The Firebird
The Beloved / Carmina Burana (choreography by Valentin Elizariev)
Soloist / Boléro (choreography by Valentin Elizariev)
Jacinta / Laurencia
Soloist / Sechs Tänze
The Girl Student / Anyuta
Dulcinea / Don Quixote
Trio / La Bayadère
Soloist / Petite Mort
Variations / Paquita
Baijan / Love and Death (choreography by Olga Kostel)
The Girl / opera Pagliacci (choreography by Olga Kostel)
The White Angel / Sonnets (choreography by Aleksandra Tikhomirova)
Gulnare / Le Corsaire
Miniatures: The Swan, Russian Dance, Libertango (choreography by Olga Kostel), Conscience (choreography by Olga Kostel)
Anna Fokina’s roles with the Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Mikhailovsky Theatre included Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, pas de trois); The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Princess Florine); La Sylphide (the title role); Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Nikolai Boyarchikov (the lead role); The Nutcracker choreographed by Nikolai Boyarchikov (Masha); The Nutcracker, choreography by Lev Ivanov revived by Nikita Dolgushin (the Sugar Plum Fairy); Le Corsaire (Gulnare); Giselle (Myrtha); Carmen Suite choreographed by Nikita Dolgushin (the lead role); Apollon musagète (Polyhymnia); Le Pavillon d'Armide (the lead role); Chopiniana (Prelude); Don Quixote (the Queen of the Dryads); Pas de Quatre; The Moor's Pavane (Desdemona); The Little Mermaid (the title role) and The Games (the Girl) choreographed by Sharonov, etc.; choreographic miniatures The Swan (Michel Fokine’s choreography); One Day; Chaffaut; Threshold; Pas Step pas de deux (Sharonov’s choreography); Siesta choreographed by Vladimir Romanovsky.
Anna Fokina has toured Japan, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, the USA, South Korea, Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.