What career moment are you most proud of?
Dancing my first Principal role aged twenty in my second season at the Semperoper Ballett as Nikiya in La Bayadere. I only found out on the morning of the stage call and was performing the next day due to a dancer being injured.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Whatever you experience is yours forever, no-one can ever take that away from you.

What’s your favourite ballet to watch (and why)?
Kenneth McMillan’s Manon. The physical and emotional demand from this ballet – it covers everything.

What’s your favourite ballet to perform (and why)?
David Dawson‘s Giselle  – I recently performed the role of Myrtha. The breath and movement that can be developed is never-ending. I always find new things to explore for myself every time I dance this piece.

What do you like to do on your days off?
Baking, spending time with my loved ones, going to cafes I have never been to, teaching ballet.

What’s something people might not know about you?
I have done a sky dive.

What’s the funniest thing that’s happened on stage/in the studio?
Falling flat on my face within the studio and on stage. Not so funny at the time but later down the line and the adrenaline rush is something I cannot explain.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
Flying.

I can honestly say being able to work with all these wonderful choreographers listed below either in person or just being able to experience their works are are all highlights to me. They have all given me an experience which has developed me for the next challenge on stage or in my personal life.

David Dawson, Alexei Ratmansky, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Kenneth Macmillan, Frederick Ashton, Pina Bausch, Alexander Akman, Stijn Celis, Johan Inger, Justin peck and Aaron S. Watkin.