Born: 1999

Nationality: Danish

Education: The Royal Danish Ballet School, 2007-15

Career: Joined the Royal Danish Ballet as an apprentice in 2015 and became a member of the corps de ballet in 2018

Highlights: Abdallah at the Gala des Ecole in Paris, 2017, the pas de six from Napoli at the Assembleé Internationale in Toronto, 2017, and Abdallah at the Vaganova’s 280th Anniversary, Bolshoi Theatre and Kremlin, 2018

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Why do you think that ballet is still relevant today?
I feel that we – especially in our society today – need a free space, a place to pause time and immerse and disappear into another world. So many things are online today, but ballet needs to be experienced live. I am sure that it is healthy for everybody to sit down in the red velvet seats for a couple of hours.

And a little anecdote: 
I actually auditioned for the ballet school in 1st grade, but I had a real bad experience with it. I had been to the audition and was on my way back to my parents together with the other children. But on the way I found out that I had forgotten my favorite jogging pants, so I jumped out of the group and ran back to the studio. After I found my pants I got lost on the theatre’s long hallways, but luckily one of the pedagogues found me crying and followed me back to my mother. I told her that I never wanted to go back in here, but of course I regretted that and came back again the next year.

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