Aitor Arrieta born in Oiartzun, Spain (Basque Country).
He trained in Mariemma Royal Conservatory of Professional Dance in Madrid and joined as a corp de ballet in CND(Spain) in 2013 In 2016 he joined English National Ballet as a Junior Soloist in 2016. He got promoted to Soloist in 2017, to First Soloist in 2019 and to Principal in 2022.
He was one of the joint winners of Emerging Dancer 2017.


DANCED ROLES INCLUDE:

José Carlos Martinez’s Delibes Suite and Basilio in Don Quijote, Albrecht in Akram Khan’s Giselle, Nephew/Prince and Nutcracker in Eagling’s Nutcracker, Prince Siegfried in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake, Des Grieux in MacMillan’s Manon, the Pe, Paris in Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet, Prince Guillaume in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Creature in Akram Khan’s Creature and Jonh de Bryan in Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda.

Created roles include William Forsythe’s Playlist (Track 1, 2) and Bernard in Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda.
He received the Professional Dancers’ Association of Gipuzkoa Discover Award in 2015, Gold medal at the International Dance Contest of Biarritz and 1st place Championship of Euskadi Aurresku in 2011.

Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Principal Dancer

Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan (2018).

Born in Saryozek, Almaty Region. He graduated from the Choreographic College named after A.V. Seleznev (2003 - 2011). From 2011 to 2013, he was a soloist of the Abay State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. From 2013 to 2015, he was a soloist and since 2015, he has been a principal dancer of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera”.

Laureate of the State Youth Award “Daryn”.


AWARDS:

• Second prize at the 7th International Competition of Siberian Choreography Schools (Novosibirsk, 2008);
• Diploma winner at the Korean International Ballet Competition (South Korea, 2009);
• First prize at the International Ballet Competition “Orleu” (2010);
• Prizewinner of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy (2010, 2011, 2019);
• First prize at the International Festival of Creative Youth “Shabyt” (2012);
• Second prize at the International Ballet Competition “Grand Prix of Siberia” (Krasnoyarsk, 2014);
• Grand Prix at the 5th Intetnational Ballet Competition in Istanbul (Turkey, 2016);
• First Prize at the 13th Seoul International Dance Competition (Korea, 2016);
• Grand Prix at the 3rd International Ballet Competition in Astana (2016);
• Grand Prix at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition - VKIBC (New York, the USA, 2017);
• First Prize at the 13th International Ballet Competition and Contest for Choreographers in Moscow (Russia, 2017).

REPERTOIRE:

• Spartacus (Spartacus by A. Khachaturian)
• Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev)
• Jester (Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky)
• Syrym (Karagoz to the music of G. Zhubanova)
• Nutcracker-Prince (The Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky)
• Nurali (The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by B. Asafyev)
• Solor (La Bayadère by L. Minkus)
• Quasimodo (Notre-Dame de Paris by M. Jarre)
• Basilio (Don Quixote by L. Minkus)
• Lescaut (Manon to the music of J. Massenet)
• Lankedem, Ali (Le Corsaire by A. Adam)
• Time (R.Rebeck's ballet How Long is Now?)
• The Golden Slave (Scheherazade to the music of N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Albrecht (Giselle by A. Adam)
• The Young Man (Le Jeune Homme et la Mort by J.S. Bach)
• Franz (Coppélia by L. Delibes)
• Beethoven (R.Rebeck's ballet Beethoven – Immortal – Love)

Dinu Tamazlacaru started his first dancing steps in his born City Chisinau at the Moldavian ballet school under the direction of Jurie Gorshkov and Ticher Alexander Iwanov, from 1994 to 2000;
He improves his dancer's formation two more years at the Ballet conservatory of Vienna supervised by Karl Musil. Evelyn Tery And Maxim Abzalov.

As a young professional dancer, he gets his first successes in winning prestigious prices, as the gold medal of Australian ballet and dance contest in 2001, the gold medal of the international competition Arabesk at Perm and the Prix de Lausanne in 2002.

During the same year, Vladimir Malhakov proposes him to join the corps de ballet of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden transformed in 2004 in Staatsballett Berlin that he still belongs to at the present time as Principal dancer.

He develops his qualities of artist threw a rich repertory of famous classical main roles : Sigfried in Swan Lake (Patrice Bart/Petipa/ Yereomenko), Basil in Don Quichoxe (Petipa/Derevianko/Grigorovich/Messerer), Romeo ( John Cranko/Patrice Bart), Lensky in Onegin (John Cranko) the prince of Nutcracker ( Patrice Bart/Grigorovich/Medvedev,Boulaka ), James or Gurn in La Sylphide (Schaufuss/Bournonville, Solor, Golden Idole, Solo fakir in Bajadere (Vladimir Malakhov), Le Papillon in Glories of romantic ballet (Pierre Lacottes), Marquitanka (Pierre Lacotte), Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, Tarentella, pas de deux (Balnchine), Fancy free (Jerome Robbins), Franz in Coppelia (Roland Petit);
as good as more neoclassical or modern pieces: The Vertiginous thrill of exactitude, Herman Schmerman (William Forsythe), Baccus in Carravaggio (Mauro Bigonzetti), And the sky (Marco Goecke), Arlesienne (Roland Petit), Siegfried and Mime in Ring um den Ring (Maurice Béjart), Les bourgeois (Ben van Couwenberg).

In 2012, his amazing ability of interpretation is recognized by one of the most prestigious price of Germany for an artist (all categories included), the Daphné price and wins the "Mr Expressivity" at Dance Open.

His career is not limited to Germany but fully international in participating at many galas in all the world ( Italy, Japan, France,Finnland, Swiss, Kasakstan, Russia, Romania, China, Mexico, United State…), and gets invited for guesting to the main theaters of ballet world as Teatro Opera di Roma, Teatro communale Firenze Maggio Danza, Tokyo ballet, Mikhailovsky theater Saint Petersbourg, Opera National of Kazan, Ufa, Bucarest, Zagreb, Bratislava…

In 2009, he got also to dance in honor of the New Year Concert of Vienna (choreography of Vladimir Malakhov) in live.

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Laureate of international and all-Russian competitions.
Winner of the prize from the international choreographic festival-competition TANZOLYMP BERLIN.
Winner of the "Soul of Dance" award in the "Rising Star" nomination.


REPERTOIRE:

Odette - Odile - "Swan Lake"
Princess Aurora - "Sleeping Beauty"
Giselle - "Giselle"
Kitri - "Don Quixote"
Nikiya - "La Bayadère"
Marie - "The Nutcracker"
Scheherazade - "A Thousand and One Nights"
Medora - "Corsair"
Lisa - "Vain Precaution"
Juliet - Romeo and Juliet

And etc.

Worldwide famous Latvian ballerina Ballerina was born at 1991 in Riga. Graduated Riga Choreography Academy in 2010. Studied with Royal Ballet academy,

Moscow Ballet Academy, had classes at Wien.Started her artistic career at Latvian National Opera stage at age 11 in role of Queen's Grove in Swan Lake performance, at 2015 Evelina Godunova was nomineted for Spelmanu Nakts best dancer award of the Season 2014/2015 for role Juliette (Romeo and Juliette). 

Danced as Soloist Universal Ballet in Seoul, at 2017 became first female Latvian Ballerina who won a Gold Medal and Special Prize at prestige Moscow International Ballet Competition. From 2018 is a First Soloist at Staatsballett Berlin. Dancing main roles as Sugar Plum, Aurora, Giselle, Kitri, Juliette etc. Nomineted Best Dancer of the Year 2018 by DanceEurope ballet magazine. 

Winner of many Worldwide International Ballet Competitions like Seoul Ballet Competition *SOUTHKOREA; Moscow Competition XXIII *RUSSIA; Jackson Ballet Competition *USA, International Beijing Ballet Competition *CHINA; Spoleto Ballet Competition *ITALY; Grace Ballet Competition *FRANCE; Serge Lifar's Ballet Competition *UKRAINE etc.

Born in Odintsovo, Moscow Region. In 2007 he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and was accepted into the Bolshoi Ballet Company. The tutor is Alexander Vetrov. Since 2022 he has been the Premier of the Bolshoi Ballet.
He is a member of the jury on the TV channel "Culture" in the program "Big and Small".
Three times nominated for the Golden Mask theater award.
He was awarded the "Soul of Dance" award in the "Star" nomination.

REPERTOIRE:

Ivan the Terrible - "Ivan the Terrible" (Y. Grigorovich)
Spartak - "Spartak" ( Y. Grigorovich)
Ferkhad - "Legend of Love" ( Y. Grigorovich)
Albert - "Giselle" (Y. Grigorovich)
Prince - "The Nutcracker" (Y. Grigorovich)
Pechorin - "Hero of our time" (Yu. Possokhov)
Abderakhman - "Raymonda" (Y. Grigorovich)
Solor - "La Bayadère" ( Y. Grigorovich)
Jose - "Carmen Suite" (A. Alonso)
Konrad - "Corsair" (Yu. Burlaki)
Basil - "Don Quixote" (A. Fadeecheva)
Philip - "Flames of Paris"
Petruchio, Hortensio - "The Taming of the Shrew" (Jean - Christophe Maillot)
First dancer - "Lost Illusions" (A. Ratmansky)
Evil Genius - "Swan Lake" (Yu. Grigorovich)
Marco Spada, Pepinelli - "Marco Spada" (P. Lacotte)
Mercutio - "Romeo and Juliet" (Yu. Grigorovich)
pas de trois in "Emeralds" - "Jewels" (J. Balanchine)
Leading couple in "Rubies" - "Jewels" (J. Balanchine)
Soloist - "Tarantella" (J. Balanchine)
and others.

Participated in the performances "Chroma" (MacGregor), "Symphony of Psalms" (I. Killian), "Forgotten Land" (I. Killian), "Herman Shmerman" (W. Forsythe), "Classical Symphony" (Yu. Posokhova), "Short time together" (Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot), "Russian Seasons" (A. Ratmansky), "Dream of Dream" (Y. Elo)
and of course "Love is everywhere" (I.Vasilyeva).

AWARDS:

In 2013 he participated in the Moscow International Ballet Competition, where he received a Silver medal.

She was born in the city of Orel, and from the age of 6 she studied at a choreographic school. At the age of 10, as the best student of the school, she was engaged to enter the Moscow State Academy of Choreography at the Bolshoi Theater. After graduating from college with honors, she was accepted into the troupe "Kremlin Ballet" in the status of prima ballerina, where she worked for 9 years, playing the main roles. Later, after spending one season at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, she was invited to join the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.

Kristina Aleksandrovna performed on the most famous stages of the world, where she was noted by various critics who noted her amazing technique, training, and of course, artistry.

Included in the ranking of the 25 best ballerinas in the world according to Dance Magazine, winner of the Triumph award, laureate of the Soul of Dance award in the Rising Star nomination, Laureate of All-Russian and International competitions, awarded the Dance Open International Ballet Prize in the Miss virtuosity".

In 2017, she was a guest of honor during the opening of the Oryol Children's Choreographic School named after E.M. Pankova".

Over the past 10 years, she has been performing on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, dancing, preserving the traditions of the Russian school, proudly representing the Oryol school. Performs the main roles such as: Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Giselle (Giselle), Kitri (Don Quixote), Marie (The Nutcracker), Anyuta (Anyuta), Gamzatti (La Bayadère), Jeanne (Flame of Paris), Julette (Romeo) and Juliet) Esmeralda (Esmeralda) and many others.

Maia Makhateli was born in Tbilisi Georgia, she began her training at the Choreographic institute of Vakhtang Chabukiani. In 2002 Maia moved to United States and she continued her training in Colorado.
Maia was finalist and medalist in a few competitions in that time and she got an offer to join Colorado Ballet . Shortly after she became a principal with the company .In 2005 Maia joined Birmingham Royal Ballet .

In 2007 she was invited to join the Dutch National Ballet where shortly after she became a principal dancer.


AWARDS:

• 2011 - Nina Ananiashvili and Gilbert Albert Award .
• 2014 - Maia was nominated as one of the outstanding dancers in the Netherlands by Critics Choice for her performance in Aleksei Ratmansky's Firebird and Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de deux.
• 2015 - Alexandra Radius Prize for remarkable achievements.

Maia has been expanding her career worldwide. She has been invited to perform with various theaters like Teatro San Carlo, Rome Opera, Macedonian Opera and ballet theater, Slovakian ballet theater, she has been a guest world wide dancing at many known Galas and festivals amongst them is “Roberto Bolle and Friends gala and world known Dance open festival in St Petersburg. Her latest achievements: nomination for the role of Marguerite Gautier in lady of camelia’s by John Neumeier’ Benois de la danse prize. In 2020 she was chosen by Dance Europe magazine critics choice “Dancer of the year”.

Recently she performed José Carlos Martínez’s Le Corsair in Slovenian national theater, Benjamin Pech’s Swan lake in Rome Opera, Ballet Frida Kahlo which was made on her by Annabelle Ochoa Lopez at the Dutch National Ballet. Most recent appearance was in Giselle new production by Eleonora Abbagnato which premiered in Cagliari at Teatro lirico. Recently debuted the role of Raymonda in the world premiere of Raymonda at the Dutch Național ballet by Rachel Beaujean.

Natascha Mair was born in Vienna (Austria). She received her education from the age of seven at the Vienna State Opera, where she was taught by Gabriele Haslinger, Karen Henry, Galina Skuratova and Evelyn Téri, among others.

In 2012 she graduated from high school and passed her ballet diploma exam with seventeen and has been engaged from the 2012/13 season on at the Vienna State Ballet. In 2012, Natascha Mair was awarded the Jury Prize at the International Ballet School Competition in Beijing and received the first prize in the Premio Roma Danza. In 2014 she was promoted to demi-soloist and in 2016 to soloist.
In December 2018, Vienna State Ballet Director Manuel Legris promoted Mair to first soloist following a performance of Rudolf Nureyev's The Nutcracker at the Vienna State Opera House.
In 2020 Natascha Mair left the Vienna State Ballet and was appointed principal dancer at the English National Ballet.

She also appears as a guest principal in many lead roles and galas in europe and overseas. Several television appearances including in the broadcasts of the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball and “Just ballet” documentary.

In 2001 he graduated from the Academy of Russian Ballet. A. Ya. Vaganova.
In the same year he was admitted to the Mikhailovsky Theatre. He performed the roles of Rothbart (Swan Lake), Jean de Brienne (Raymond), Claude Frolo (Esmeralda), Head of the Guard and the Great Brahmin (La Bayadère, staged by N. Boyarchikov), Conrad (Le Corsaire, staged by P. Gusev), Alena (The Vain Precaution, chor. O. Vinogradov), Mr. Drosselmeyer and Mr. Stahlbaum (The Nutcracker, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Paris (Romeo and Juliet, chor. O. Vinogradov) , The Nutcracker Prince (The Nutcracker, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Mikado (The Princess of the Moon, or The Story of Taketori, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Crassus and Spartacus (Spartacus, chor. G. Kovtun), performed oriental dance in the play "Cinderella, or the Crystal Slippers" (chor. M. Bolshakova), the choreographic miniature "Spring Waters", the solo part in the Grand Pas from the ballet "Paquita", participated in the choreographic scene of the opera "Faust" by C. Gounod " Walpurgis Night".

In 2007, he was nominated for the Golden Sofit (Best Actor in a Ballet) St. Petersburg Higher Theater Award for his performance as Jean de Brienne in the ballet Raymonda. Currently, on the stage of the theater, he performs leading and characteristic parts in the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Laurencia, The Flames of Paris, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Corsair , "Giselle, or Wilis", "Cipollino", "Duende", "In the Forest", "Prelude", "White Darkness", "Variety. Forms of silence and emptiness.

The South Korean dancer Young Gyu Choi joined Dutch National Ballet in 2011 as a member of the corps de ballet. In 2013, he was promoted no less than twice: first to coryphée and later in the year to soloist. He then danced leading roles in Don Quixote and Cinderella, among others. On the first of January 2016, immediately after his debut as the prince in The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, he was promoted to principal.

Immediately after reaching the final of the Prix de Lausanne in 2006, Young transferred to the Tanz Akademie in Zurich, where he studied for two years. He then temporarily returned to Korea; although he already knew by then that he wanted to dance in Europe, he still had to get out from under military service. He succeeded initially by studying at Sun Hwa Arts School for another period, and finally for good by winning the gold medal at the Youth America Grand Prix in New York in 2009.
Young has more major awards to his name. At the Youth America Grand Prix, he already won a silver medal in 2005 and a bronze in 2007. In 2006, he took second place at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in Varna, and in 2010 he won the award there for 'best performance in a contemporary choreography'. He also won first prize at the Boston International Competition in 2010.

In Amsterdam, he was awarded the Alexandra Radius Prize in 2017 and in October 2022 he won the Swan for 'Most Impressive Dance Performance' from the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors for his performance in Toer van Schayk's 7e Symfonie. From the British dance magazine Dance Europe, Young received the honourable mention 'Outstanding performance by a male dancer' in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

In 2022, the magazine also nominated him, alongside eleven other top international soloists, for the Dancer of the Year Award.

Honored Artist of Russia

In 1998 she graduated from the Academy of Russian Ballet. A. Ya. Vaganova. From the same year - in the ballet troupe of the Mikhailovsky Theater. She performed the parts of Margarita (Faust, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Masha (The Nutcracker, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Sister (Cinderella, or The Crystal Slippers, chor. M. Bolshakova), Raymonda (Raymonda) ), Lilac Fairies, Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty, directed by N. Boyarchikova), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet, chor. O. Vinogradov), Kagui-Hime (The Princess of the Moon, or Taketori's Story, chor. N. Boyarchikov), Kitri (Don Quixote), Nikiya, Gamzatti (La Bayadere, productions by N. Boyarchikov), Medora (The Corsair, productions by P. Gusev and F. Ruzimatov), Valeria, Sabina (Spartacus) , chorus by G. Kovtun), The Moor's Wife (The Moor's Pavane, chorus by H. Limon), Maria (The Cavalry's Halt), part in the ballet Minor Sonatas (chorus by S. Samodurov).

Participated in gala concerts and divertissements with choreographic miniatures "Spring Waters" (chorus A. Messerer), "Bakti" (chorus M. Bejart), "High Heels" (chorus Nacho Duato). The current repertoire of the ballerinas includes the leading solo parts in the ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, or Wilis, La Bayadère, Corsaire, Cipollino, Don Quixote, Laurencia, The Flames of Paris, Class -concert", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker", "Romeo and Juliet", "Prelude", "White Darkness".

She took part in theater tours in Japan, Great Britain, USA, Germany, Finland, Latvia, Estonia. She performed at the Cultural Olympiad in Sochi in 2014.

Francesco Gabriele Frola is an Italian ballet dancer. His parents, both former dancers, run a dancing school, Professione Danza, in Parma, the city where Gabriele spent the first 16 years of his life.

He joined the National Ballet of Canada in 2010, and in 2018, he was promoted to principal dancer, the highest rank in the company. The same year, he joined the English National Ballet as a principal dancer, while keeping his position in Canada. In 2020, the English National Ballet promoted him to lead principal, and he started to dance with the company full-time.

Awarded the Rolex Dancers First Award (2015) for his performance of the title role in Nijinsky and Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, and the Patron Award of Merit in 2014. In 2012, he won the Silver Medal at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition and the Bronze Medal in the International Ballet Competition in Cuba in 2010. He was also a semi-finalist at Prix de Lausanne in 2008 and received the prize for Best Male at the Grand Prix Pavlova in 2006 and 2003.