ALINA PANOVA

Alina Panova is a multidisciplinary artist, noted stage and screen designer. Panova's designs have decisively shaped the look of film, stage and theater.

As a stage and screen designer Alina Panova began her work in the world of opera and ballet, and subsequently established herself as a noted Hollywood costume designer and multidisciplinary artist. She collaborated with leading artists, directors and performers of our time.

Alina Panova was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a family with Russian, Ukrainian, and Jewish roots. She studied at the Shevchenko State Shool of Fine Arts in Kiev, and Cooper Union School of Art in New York after her family moved to the United States. In New York she became a protege of the legendary Theoni Aldredge with whom she established a long-term professional collaboration. Panova's designs include numerous Hollywood films, as well as Broadway and West End musicals, operas and ballets. In the world of opera, Panova's mentor was a renowned Italian director/author/designer Beni Montresor with whom she worked with on many international productions. Panova's set and costumes designs have been seen in major opera houses around the world, including: Paris Opera, La Scala, the San Francisco Opera and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Panova's long list of stage designs also include West End musicals "Chess" and "Ziegfeld" as well as Broadway productions of "Gypsy" , "Blithe Spirit" and "Nick and Nora". In Hollywood films her costume designs have been seen in "Addams Family Values" (Academy Award Nomination), "The Naked Man"( written and produced by Ethan Coen), and "Bruiser", directed by cult horror director George Romero. 

One of Panova's big passions is the world of ballet and dance. Having worked with some of the greatest dancers and ballerinas of our time, and designing numerous ballet productions, she also spent many hundreds of hours drawing, painting and "chronicling" the life of dancers on stage and off. This resulted in the impressive body of work that includes numerous portraits, drawings, class sketches and studies of Rudolph Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and others.