Laurretta Summerscales

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Laurretta Summerscales
Born1993 (age 28–29)
Surrey, England
Education English National Ballet School
Years active2009–present
Spouse(s)
Yonah Acosta
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(m. 2017)​
Current group Bavarian State Ballet
Former groups English National Ballet

Laurretta Summerscales (born 1993) [1] is a British ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with Bavarian State Ballet and previously with the English National Ballet.

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Early life

Laurretta Summerscales grew up in Woking, Surrey, England. [1] [2] Her mother runs the Karen Clarke Theatre School in Surrey (where Summerscales sometimes teaches), and her father works in information technology. [3] [1] She began dancing at the age of three, at her mother's school. [3] [4]

Summerscales began her training at the English National Ballet School in 2007, having won a scholarship to study there, she was 16 at the time. [1] [3] [5] Also in 2007, Summerscales was a finalist for the Young British Dancer of the Year competition. [1]

Career

In 2009, at age 18, Summerscales was offered a contract to join the English National Ballet, 18 months after she started training at the English National Ballet School and a year before she was supposed to graduate. [4] [5]

Five months after she joined the company, she danced her first principal role, Myrtha in Giselle , and found out she had to dance the role two days before the performance. The Evening Standard called her "the rising star of English ballet", and speculated that she might be "the new Darcey Bussell". [1]

Summerscales was promoted to first soloist at the end of the 2012/13 season, and made her debut as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake in 2013. She was named a principal dancer in January 2016. [6]

In September 2017, she joined the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich as a Principal dancer. In 2018, she left the English National Ballet and began to dance full-time in Munich. [6] [7]

Selected repertoire

Personal life

In summer 2017, she married fellow English National Ballet dancer Yonah Acosta, originally from Cuba, and the nephew of Carlos Acosta. They lived in Woking during their time in ENB. [2] [8] They are now based in Munich, Germany.

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