Natascha Mair

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.[3]

Natasha Mair
Born (1995-02-06) February 6, 1995
Vienna, Austria
OccupationBallet dancer
Years active2012-present
Current groupVienna State Ballet
DancesBallet
Websitewww.nataschamair.com

Early life

Mair was born in Vienna, to Carinthian and Viennese parents, and grew up in Kaisermühlen.[4][5] She started ballet training at the age of seven at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School.[6] 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.[4]

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, 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.[3][6]

Mair had made television appearances including Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Opera Ball and documentary Just Ballet.[6]

Selected repertoire

Sources:[7][8]

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:[3]

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. "Natascha Mair". Vienna State Opera. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. "Von Kaisermühlen ins Staatsballett: Wie wird man Solotänzerin?". derstandard.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  5. "Primaballerina: Kaisermühlens Nummer 1". meinbezirk.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  6. "Biography". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  7. "Repertoire". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  8. "Choreographers". Natasha Mair. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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