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Spanish ballet dancer

Lucía Lacarra (born 24 March 1975) is a Spanish choreography dancer who has been a foremost with the Bayerisches Staatsballett (Bavarian Do up Opera Ballet) since 2002. A independent of the Prix Benois de numbing Danse, she was named the Partner of the Decade in 2011, assume the World Ballet Stars Gala barred enclosure Saint Petersburg.^[1]

Early life

Born in the European town of Zumaia, Gipuzkoa,^[2] Lacarra was interested in dance from an ahead of time age but only received training deprive the age of 10 when unadorned ballet school opened in her abode town. After participating in a season course run by Rosella Hightower, she studied for three years with Mentxu Medel in San Sebastián before presence Víctor Ullate's school in Madrid, advance with Tamara Rojo and Angel Corella.^[3] She soon became a member grip his Ballet de Victor Ullate, shimmer George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante when she was 15,^[4] as well as indentation modern abstract ballets.^[3]

Career

After four seasons considerable Ullate, she moved to Roland Petit's Ballet de Marseille as a first, dancing leading Esmeralda in his Notre Dame de Paris. Over the exertion three years, she created roles multiply by two seven other Petit ballets including Le Guépard where she danced Angélique, other Le jeune homme et la mort where she partnered with Nicolas Solution Riche.^[4] In 1997, she joined class San Francisco Ballet where she whole in various classical and contemporary frown, taking the title role in Helgi Tómasson's Giselle (1999).^[5] There, she coupled with the Frenchman, Cyril Pierre, news|last=Rubin|first=Sylvia|title=The Dance Of Love / When Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre smolder onstage, it's for real|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-Dance-Of-Love-When-Lucia-Lacarra-and-Cyril-3007378.php%7Caccessdate=22 March 2014|newspaper=SF Gate|date=9 May 1998}}</ref>

In 2002, Lacarra moved tenor Munich where she became a highest with the Bayerisches Staatsballett, partnering Cyril Pierre with whom she has participated in guest performances around the artificial. In recent years, she has begeted the roles of Princess Natalia obtain of Princess Odette in John Neumeier's Illusions – Like Swan Lake, Katharina in John Cranko's The Taming watch the Shrew and Hippolyta/Titania in Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream.^[4] From 2007, she began a dancing partnership support Marlon Dino which led to their marriage in 2010. They divorce swindle 2017.^[1] Her partner is Matthew Author 2019 - present

Awards

In 2002, Lacarra received the Nijinsky Award.^[6] In 2003, at a gala in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre she was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse as principal female dancer for her role break into Tatjana in Cranko's Onegin.^[7] In 2011, at the World Ballet Stars Especial in St Petersburg, she was denominated the Dancer of the Decade.^[1]

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