Jelena Bushuyeva was born and raised in Kharkov, Ukraine, where she received her first ballet training at Kharkov Academy. She took part in the Youthful of Ballet Competition in Kiev 1997 and won the third prize in the Fulte of ARTEK Competition. With the Kharkov Children’s Ballet Theatre she had guest performances in France, Spain, Taiwan and Russia. In 2000 she attended the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart and graduated in 2003.
In the season 2003/04 she became an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet; at the beginning of the 2005/06 season Jelena Bushuyeva was taken into the Corps de ballet.
REPERTOIRE
Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): one of the Two Sylphs
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Beauty Fairy
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Pas de six)
Specially created Roles - Big Blur (Demis Volpi)
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
- Double Bass Concerto (Bridget Breiner)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi)
- Orlando (Marco Goecke)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers- Back and Forth (Jesse Fraser)
- Gern geschehen (Miles Pertl)
- Make me sway (Sarah Grether)
- palpable leers (Demis Volpi)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier)
- Bravo Charlie (Marco Goecke)
- Carmen (John Cranko, new production: Reid Anderson and Georgette Tsinguirides)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
- Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
- Gaîté parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
- I fratelli – The Brothers (Mauro Bigonzetti): Prostitute
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- Jeu de cartes (John Cranko): Pik-Zehn
- La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
- Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
- Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- Othello (John Neumeier)
- RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
- Serenade (George Balanchine)
- Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Townswoman
- Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
- The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
- The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
- Voluntaries (Glen Tetley)