Natasha Mair | |
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Born | Vienna, Austria | 6 February 1995
Occupation | Ballet dancer |
Years active | 2012-present |
Career | |
Current group | English National Ballet |
Former groups | Vienna State Ballet |
Dances | Ballet |
Website | www |
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.
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]
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]
Mair's repertoire with the Vienna State Ballet includes:[8][9]
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