ALINA COJOCARU
Alina Cojocaru
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Born in Bucharest, Ms. Cojocaru trained in Kiev before joining The Royal Ballet School (1998)
on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship. She danced with Kiev Ballet for a year (Kitri, Aurora, Cinderella, Clara, Swanilda), then joined The Royal Ballet in 1999, promoted to Principal, 2001. Her repertory includes Sugar Plum Fairy, Nikiya, Kitri, Juliet, Giselle, Odette/Odile, Mary Vetsera, Aurora, Tatiana and Olga (Onegin), Titania, Manon, Raymonda, Cinderella, Ondine, Vera, Chloë, Bride (Wedding Bouquet), Sylphide (La Sylphide), Pupil (The Lesson) and roles in The Leaves Are Fading, Scènes de ballet, Symphonic Variations, Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Symphony in C, Tombeaux, Ballet Imperial, Homage to The Queen, Voluntaries,Theme and Variations and Diamonds. She created roles in This House Will Burn, Les Saisons and Chroma. Her guest appearances include performances with the Mariinsky Ballet, ABT, Royal Danish Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Romanian National Theatre Ballet and Hungarian National Ballet.
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