Sahra Maira

Ex-dancer - SoloistToronto, Ontario
Sahra Maira, Soloist with Les Grands Ballets
iPhoto: Sasha Onyshchenko | Dancer: Sahra Maira

"Dancing for me, is expression through movement."

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1990-1997 Academy of Ballet & Jazz, Thornhill, ON – Teacher: Nadia Veselova-Tencer
1997-2000 Kirov Academy, Washington, D.C. – taught by Alla Sizova, Nikolai Morozov and Ludmilla Morkovina

2000-2003 Universal Ballet Company, Seoul (Oleg Vinogradov, artistic director)
2003-2010 National Ballet of Hungary, Budapest (Gábor Keveházi, artistic director), demi-soloist
2010 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
2012 Promoted Demi-Soloist
2024 Departure from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

Sahra Maira has danced many soloist roles in the classical repertoire, including:

  • Little swans and Tarantella in Petipa’s Swan Lake
  • Scarf dancer, Fire dancer, Little Bayadère and Shades in Petipa’s La Bayadère
  • Friends and Wilis in Petipa’s Giselle
  • Canary Fairy, Diamond Fairy and Little Red Riding Hood in Sleeping Beauty
  • grand pas de deux in Don Quixote
  • Aegina in Seregi László’s Spartacus

Sahra also interpreted various roles in:

  • Anna Karenina
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Sylvia
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Balanchine’s Serenade and Who Cares
  • Roles of Snow pas de deux, Chinese, Spanish and the waltz pas de deux in Fernand Nault’s The Nutcracker

Sahra’s contemporary repertoire includes various works from Stephan Thoss:

  • Principal role in Searching for Home
  • Role of the Maiden (fire) in Death and the Maiden
  • Roles in Dream Away

She also danced in:

  • Na Floresta (Nacho Duato)
  • Kaguyahime (Jiří Kylián)
  • Summer pas de deux inFour Seasons (Mauro Bigonzetti)
  • Pas de six in Cantata (Bigonzetti)
  • Tutor in Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)

2000 Médaille d'argent, Youth America Grand Prix

The dancer Sahra Maira in Searching for Home
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