Natascha Mair

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Natasha Mair
Born (1995-02-06) 6 February 1995 (age 28)
Vienna, Austria
Occupation Ballet dancer
Years active2012-present
Career
Current group English National Ballet
Former groups Vienna State Ballet
Dances Ballet
Website www.nataschamair.com

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]

Selected repertoire

Mair's repertoire with the Vienna State Ballet includes: [8] [9]

Awards

Sources: [7]

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References

  1. Natascha Mair: Neue Generation Wiener Staatsballet Archived 2019-02-24 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 24 February 2019.
  2. Kleine Zeitung: Natascha Mair. Publication date: 9 May 2015, accessed 24 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Von Kaisermühlen ins Staatsballett: Wie wird man Solotänzerin?". derstandard.at (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2020-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Primaballerina: Kaisermühlens Nummer 1". meinbezirk.at (in German). 11 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  5. 1 2 3 "Biography". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Winter 2020 update". English National Ballet (Press release). 9 November 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Natascha Mair". Vienna State Opera. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020.
  8. "Repertoire". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. "Choreographers". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.