
Joel Calstar-Fisher
(principal dancer)
EDUCATION AND WORK
Joel Calstar-Fisher studied dancing at English National Ballet School (2018–2021) and Elmhurst Ballet School (2014–2018). He is a founding member of World Ballet School Day that was founded during summer 2020. Joel won the Fewster Cecchetti Scholarship at the Cecchetti Vocational Awards in 2018 and has performed with Birmingham Royal Ballet in Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” (2021). He joined the Estonian National Ballet in August 2021, became a demi-doloist in December 2022, a soloist in December 2023 and a principal dancer in June 2025.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
He is a winner of the MyFitness Dance Award 2024.
MEMORABLE MOMENT IN BALLET
“I remember performing the principle male role in Ashton’s “Les Rendezvous” for my graduation performance in 2021”.
REPERTOIRE
Conrad (Adam’s “The Corsair”)
Mazurka, Pas de trois (Lifar’s “Suite en blanc”)
Nutcracker-Prince, Drosselmeyer (Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”)
Albrecht (Adam’s “Giselle”)
Desire (Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty”)
Prince Siegfried (Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”)
Jack of Hearts (Schiavoni’s “Alice in Wonderland”)
Huntsman, Prince (Harangozo/Kocsak’s “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs”)
Stanley (Meckler/Ochoa/Salem’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”)
Karenin (Kesler’s “Anna Karenina” to the music of Shostakovich)
Louis XIV (Kask/Steiner/Mölder’s “Louis XIV – the Sun King”)
Adagio (Lifar’s “Suite en blanc”)
Man (Grib/Kruusmaa’s “Light from the End of the World”)
Margus, playing the Robber (Sumera/Lill/Kesler’s “Lizard”)