Natascha Mair

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Natascha Mair (born February 6, 1995 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ballet dancer . From 2012 to 2020 she was a member of the Vienna State Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper Vienna , of which she was first solo dancer since 2018. With the start of the 2020/21 season, she is no longer a member of the State Ballet.

Life

Natascha Mair was born as the daughter of a Carinthian and a Viennese and grew up in Kaisermühlen . She received her training from the age of seven at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School , where she was taught by Gabriele Haslinger, Karen Henry, Galina Skuratova and Evelyn Téri, among others. She skipped a school year and an apprenticeship year and passed the Matura , ballet diploma examination in 2012 at the age of seventeen and was engaged at the Vienna State Ballet from the 2012/13 season . In 2012 she was also awarded the jury prize at the Beijing International Ballet School Competition and first prize at the Premio Roma Danza.

In 2014 she was promoted to semi-soloist at the Vienna State Ballet and received the sponsorship award from the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper ballet club. In 2016 she became a solo dancer. In December 2018 she was appointed first solo dancer of the Vienna State Ballet .

At the Vienna State Opera she could be seen as Crown Princess Stephanie in Mayerling , as Clara in Nutcracker , as Henriette in Raimonda , as Lise in La Fille mal gardée , as the enchanted princess in Sleeping Beauty , as Olga in Onegin as well as in Don Quichotte and in Swan lake . In January 2019 she premiered as Swanilda in the premiere of Coppélia in a choreography by Pierre Lacotte at the Volksoper Vienna , in November 2019 at the State Opera with the ballet Jewels by choreographer George Balanchine .

She had television appearances with the broadcasts of the New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic and the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball .

Awards (selection)

  • 2012: Jury Prize at the Beijing International Ballet School Competition
  • 2012: First prize at the Premio Roma Danza
  • 2014: Award of the Ballet Club Wiener Staatsoper and Volksoper

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Natascha Mair: New Generation Wiener Staatsballet . Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Small newspaper: Natascha Mair . Article dated May 9, 2015, accessed February 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Press release 2020/21 season. In: wiener-staatsoper.at. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Verena Franke: First soloist Jakob Feyferlik and his stage tingling. In: Wiener Zeitung . July 27, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c derStandard.at: From Kaisermühlen to the State Ballet: How do you become a solo dancer? . Article from January 24, 2019, accessed on February 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Prima ballerina: Kaisermühlen number 1 . Article dated February 11, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019.
  7. ^ A b c Vienna State Opera: Ensemble: Natascha Mair . Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Vienna State Opera: Natascha Mair appointed first solo dancer of the Vienna State Ballet . Article dated December 28, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019.
  9. ^ Natascha Mairs appearances at the Vienna State Opera
  10. ^ Volksoper Vienna: Coppélia . Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  11. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Natascha Mair, first soloist, and Anne Salmon, ballet master, on the premiere and reconstruction of "Coppélia". . Article from January 24, 2019, accessed on February 24, 2019.
  12. ↑ Verena Franke: Ballet review: George Balanchine's "Jewels" shine at the State Opera. In: Wiener Zeitung . November 4, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Kurier: Staatsballett: On the extreme, get set, go! . Article dated February 21, 2017, accessed February 24, 2019.
  14. ^ Opera ball: New first solo dancers Mair and Feyferlik at the opening . Article of February 25, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mair, Natascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna