Natascha Mair

Natasha Mair
Born (1995-02-06) 6 February 1995 (age 29)
Vienna, Austria
OccupationBallet dancer
Years active2012-present
Career
Current groupEnglish National Ballet
Former groupsVienna State Ballet
DancesBallet
Websitewww.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.

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

  • 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

Sources:[7]

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. ^ a b "Von Kaisermühlen ins Staatsballett: Wie wird man Solotänzerin?". derstandard.at (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  4. ^ "Primaballerina: Kaisermühlens Nummer 1". meinbezirk.at (in German). 11 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  5. ^ a b c "Biography". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Winter 2020 update". English National Ballet (Press release). 9 November 2020.
  7. ^ a b "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.