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Natascha Mair
Austrian ballet dancer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Natascha Mair (born 6 February 1995)[1][2] is an Austrian ballet dancer. She joined the Vienna State Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to first soloist in 2018. In 2020, she joined the English National Ballet as a principal dancer.
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Early life
Mair was born in Vienna, to Carinthian and Viennese parents, and grew up in Kaisermühlen.[3][4] She started ballet training at the age of seven at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School.[5] She skipped one year of school and one year of training and passed the Matura and ballet diploma examination in 2012 at the age of seventeen.[3]
Career
Mair joined the Vienna State Ballet in the 2012/13 season. She was named demi-soloist in 2014, and soloist in 2016. In 2018, Manuel Legris, the artistic director of the company promoted Mart the rank of first soloist (also translated as principal),[6] the highest rank of the company, following a performance of The Nutcracker. Since then, she had performed leading roles in Coppélia, Le Corsaire and Don Quixote. She had made guest appearances in Russia, Turkey and Slovenia.[7][5] Mair had made television appearances including Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Opera Ball and documentary Just Ballet.[5]
In 2020, the English National Ballet announced that Mair had joined the company as a Principal, the second highest rank of the company.[6]
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Selected repertoire
Mair's repertoire with the Vienna State Ballet includes:[8][9]
- Clara in The Nutcracker
- Crown Princess Stephanie in Mayerling
- Lise in La Fille mal gardée
- Gulnare in Le Corsaire
- Olga in Onegin
- Henriette in Raymonda
- Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Swanilda in Coppélia
- Juliette in Roméo et Juliette
- Allegro Brillante
- Symphony in C (1st movement)
- "Emeralds" from Jewels
- La Sylphide
- Sylvia
- Études
- Suite en Blanc
- Concerto 1st movements
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Don Quixote
- Giselle
- La Bayadère
- Paquita (excerpt)
Awards
- Prize of the Jury at the International Contest of Ballet Schools in Beijing, 2012
- First Prize at the Premio Roma Danza, 2012
- Promotion Prize of the Ballettclub Wiener Staatsoper & Volksoper, 2014
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