Viara Nacheva is a ballet pedagogue at the State Ballet and Artist School Berlin and was a principal dancer with the Berlin State Ballet. She performed leading roles in the classical repertoire, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Giselle and Myrtha in Giselle, the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Nadezhda von Meck in Eifman’s Tchaikovsky, and Nikiya and Gamzatti in La Bayadère, as well as Fricka and Grimhilde in Maurice Béjart’s Ring Around the Ring. She has worked with world-renowned choreographers such as Maurice Béjart, Patrice Bart, Nacho Duato, Boris Eifman, and Vladimir Malakhov. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Ballet Pedagogy from the National Music Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria and teaches classical ballet following the Vaganova method.
