Beauty. Outside of ABT, she had appeared on Late Show with David Letterman. She had danced with the Royal New Zealand Ballet as a guest artist. She also participated in projects by the Kennedy Center and Metropolitan Opera. In 2012, she had returned to the Mariinsky as guest to perform in Swan Lake. The following year, she appeared in documentary Ballet's Greatest Hits, dancing the White Swan pas de deux. In 2017, Part retired from ABT as her contract was not renewed. Her departure was announced days before her final performance. Her fans started a petition on Change.org to ask the company's leadership to let Part stay. Part exited the company following a performance of Balanchine's Mozartiana. Part had taught in schools across the U.S., and was a jury at Youth America Grand Prix. She later became a ballet master at Atlanta Ballet. Selected repertoire Kirov Nikiya in La Bayadère The Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote Myrta, Moyna and Zulma in Giselle Raymonda and Henrietta in Raymonda The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty Odette-Odile in Swan Lake Terpsichore in Apollo "Emeralds" and "Diamonds" from Jewels Second movement in Symphony in C Serenade ABT Terpsichore in Apollo Nikiya in La Bayadère Kitri, Mercedes and the Queen of the Driads in Don Quixote An Episode in His Past in Jardin aux Lilas Mozartiana Manon in Lady of the Camellias Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker (McKenzie) Clara, the Princess The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) Other Dances Raymonda, Henrietta, the White Lady and the Lead Spanish Dancer in Raymonda Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty Odette-Odile and the Polish Princess in Swan Lake The Sylph in La Sylphide Les Sylphides Sylvia and Terpsichore in Sylvia Second movement in Symphony in C Bach Partita Monotones II Symphony #9 The Dying Swan Twig in Cinderella Prayer in Coppélia Odalisque in Le Corsaire Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet Created roles Natalia in On the Dnieper (Ratmansky) The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky) Dumbarton Kaleidoscope Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison Sources: References External links Veronika Part Beautiful Woman 1978 births Living people Russian ballerinas American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Mariinsky Ballet dancers 21st-century Russian ballet dancers Russian expatriates in the United States Prima ballerinas