Background
Vishneva was born in Saint St. Petersburg and was trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
Vishneva was born in Saint St. Petersburg and was trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
While at the Vaganova school, she scored the highest scores known to the school"s history. During her last year at the Academy she also trained at the Mariinsky Theatre. Vishneva joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company upon her graduation in 1995.
Two prizes at the start of her career at the Mariinsky–the Benois de la Danse and the Golden Sofit helped Vishneva rise up the ranks swiftly.
She was promoted to principal in 1996. Vishneva first appeared with the American Ballet Theatre during its 2003 spring season.
She joined the company as a principal dancer in 2005. In 2008, Vishneva joined the Honorary Board of Directors of the Russian Children"s Welfare Society (RCWS).
Vishneva was one of the featured dancers in the 2006 documentary Ballerina.
Vishneva"s repertoire includes Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, Louisiana Bayadère, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Firebird and Giselle. She also performs the works of modern choreographers, especially those of George Balanchine, William Forsythe and Roland Petit. She has enjoyed critical acclaim for her interpretation of Rubies, (the second movement of Balanchine"s evening-length, ballet, Jewels) Giselle, and Kenneth MacMillan"s Manon.
In addition to dancing with the Kirov Ballet, Vishneva has made guest appearances with many ballet companies, including not only American Ballet Theatre, but also the Bolshoi Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
In October 2011 the Mariinsky Theatre hosted the premiere of the new ballet project Diana Vishneva: Dialogues, which brings together works by world class choreographers – Martha Graham (United States of America) Paul Lightfoot and Sol León (Netherlands) and John Neumeier (Germany). The programme, which consists of three independent ballets, has since been performed to great acclaim in Moscow and New New York
She also appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 2012, Diana Vishneva through the Lens of Patrick Demarchelier, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2014, Diana Vishneva created her first "haute couture" dancewear line in collaboration with Grishko and Tatyana Parfionova.