Sahra Maira

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