Anna Roberta

(principal dancer)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Anna Roberta finished Tallinn Ballet School in 2017 with honours (the class of Kaja Kreitzberg) and joined the Estonian National Ballet in the same year. She has attended several masterclasses and participated successfully in international competitions. In 2020, she was promoted to demi-soloist, in 2022 a soloist and in 2023 a principal dancer.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Anna Roberta has won international recognition by receiving Grand Prix and 1st place at the Liepaja Ballet Competition and 3rd place at the Tallinn International Ballet Competition. In 2020, she received the Colleague Award of the Estonian National Opera and Eesti Postimees enlisted her in the list of “100 Faces” as a “Rising Star”. In 2021, she received the MyFitness Dance Award and in 2022, the Annual Estonian Theatre Award.

MEMORABLE MOMENT IN BALLET
“I had a really embarrassing moment when touring with Delibes’s “Coppélia” in Tampere, where I forgot to remove my black training tights before entering the stage in a light costume…”

REPERTOIRE
Odette/Ottilie, 2 big swans, bride (Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”)
Anna Karenina (Kesler’s “Anna Karenina”)
Dark Angel (Balanchine’s „Serenade“)
Lilac Fairy (Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty”)
Lady Capulet (Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Muse (Grib’s “Picasso”)
Soloist (Upkin’s “Jazz-Ballet”)
Lydia (Härm’s “Twilight Houses”)
Soloist (Kozielska’s “Open Door”)
“Sigaret”, Adagio (Lifar’s “Suite en blanc”)
Clara (Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”)
Bathilde’s mother (Adam’s “Giselle”)